Rock on rollerskates

WITH green munchkins, crashing chandeliers and felines having already prowled our theatre stages, it's probably safe to say that Singapore has seen the best that the world of musicals has to offer. But there's always room for one more spectacle that we haven't seen - Starlight Express - where the cast of 28 performs the entire show on roller-skates.

The rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the longest-running musicals at West End in London, about a child's dream where his toy trains come to life at night and race for the title as the "fastest engine in the world". The show first started out in West End, in 1984, where it played for over 7,000 performances, and also had a shorter run at Broadway …