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Bethel Music's newest compilation, is unique in that it is comprised of songs all led by female worship leaders and recorded at Bethel Worship Nights across the country last fall. The voices featured include Jenn Johnson ('), Amanda Cook ('You Make Me Brave'), Steffany Gretzinger ('), Kalley Heiligenthal ('), Melissa Helser, Kristene DiMarco ('), Hannah McClure (') and special guest Francesca Battistelli. Starlight is best described as a stellar worship offering with an empowering theme of the Lord's Kingship reigning in our hearts in song after song. The standout songs each feature an engaging and emotive musical style while phrasing biblical truth in a creative, corporate and also personal way, making it my top worship album of the year. Every song completely focuses me as a listener on joining in praise, worship and adoration of our beautiful King Jesus. I had the great opportunity to interview Kristene DiMarco about 'Take Courage.'
Please tell me the personal story behind this song. I consider this song to be ten years in the making, a finishing a season in my life kind of song. For me, we recently purchased a house last year, and I had the lyrics ' watch your triumph unfold' in a frame that a friend made me.
When we finally got to move into the house, I put it on the mantel and started weeping. I realized it had been ten years in the making. I had been in a tough time in San Francisco in a prayer movement, and it was one of those places in life where you couldn't see where you were going and just putting one foot in front time after time. That's what this song is about, this mystery of what surrounds you, not being able to see what's coming. You can't go back, and you just have to trust. It's about God not abandoning us in those places of waiting.
He's with us on our whole journey. When we get to the end of our process, we can look back and see that He's with us every step of the way, and He lit up our road behind us. When I sat down to put all of this process to words, I sat with Jeremy Riddle, and he's a great sounding board for me. He's a lot more straightforward than I am when it comes to writing. I tend to be off in the clouds, and it makes sense to me, but it may not make sense to anyone else. I had the first part of the chorus, and he wanted to add 'hold on to your hope,' because in the waiting that's the one thing you can't lose is hope, even when you can't see. I really wanted to sing 'watch your triumph unfold' after reading about Jehoshaphat in 2nd Chronicles.
God told him he didn't need to fight in this battle, and I wanted to work that into the song. Which Bible verses connect to the message of the song? (NIV): He said: 'Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.' (NIV): 'I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry.'
(VOICE): 'But those who trust in the Eternal One will regain their strength. They will soar on wings as eagles. They will run-never winded, never weary.
They will walk-never tired, never faint.' (MSG): 'God's loyal love couldn't have run out, His merciful love couldn't have dried up. They're created new every morning.
How great is Your faithfulness! I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over). He's all I've got left.' (NIV): 'May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.' (NLT): 'Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.' (NKJV): 'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' What is the takeaway message?
I sang this song on a Sunday night for the first time, and it seemed like the congregation got it, to slow down and watch God's triumph unfold. The song really wraps up a ten year process in my life, not that I'm done with the process by any means.
I really want this song to touch people who are in the midst of having to hold on to hope and having to press into the promise when you can't see the next step in front of you. In Exodus there's a description of God saying to slow down, stand still and watch the salvation of the Lord. In the beginning of the song, I was such a worrier for most of my life, I'd imagine these horrible things happening.
Even becoming a mom, it was such a battle in my mind. I wrote the song from that perspective. Don't make up stuff in your mind. Slow down, take time and breathe in. Don't be afraid, just expect God and the very best to come. Hope isn't an easy thing. It's this fight inside of us.
Oftentimes when you get a promise, there's all this space, and it can be years that you are waiting. People are in the middle of waiting for a promise, and what do you do in those moments?
Do you think God has left you? No, He's walking with you and working with you. There's always purpose in the waiting. I want people to know that they can take courage and get through another day in the waiting. Remember who God really is. No matter what we are going through, remember God cares.
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Logo for the Japan/Australia tour, 1987-1988 Music Alistair Lloyd Webber (additional) Lyrics (additional) (additional) (additional) (additional) Productions Multiple productions worldwide Starlight Express is a by (music) and (lyrics). Later productions have used additional songs with lyrics by, and, and with music by the composer's son, Alastair Lloyd Webber. Famously, the actors perform the entire show on. The West End production of Starlight Express is the in history, having been performed 7,409 times between 1984 and 2002. Starlight Express is also the most successful musical in Germany, where it has been performed in a purpose-built theatre since 1988. Contents.
Background According to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Starlight Express has its roots in three abandoned projects: an animated TV series based on, a novelty pop single, and an animated film based on. In 1974, Lloyd Webber approached author about adapting Awdry's Thomas the Tank Engine stories as an animated TV series. Following the meeting, Lloyd Webber starting composing, with actor and children's TV writer Peter Reeves contributing lyrics. They pitched their material to, who commissioned a.
The episode was completed in early 1976, but Grenada ultimately decided not to produce a full series as they feared that Awdry's stories were not then popular enough outside the UK to justify investing the time and money needed to make the series. After withdrawing from the project, Lloyd Webber heard a recording of an American soul singer, Earl Jordan, who could in the style of a. Lloyd Webber and Peter Reeves wrote a novelty pop song for Jordan called 'Engine of Love', which was released in 1977. The song failed to chart, but 'Engine of Love' would go on to feature in some productions of Starlight Express. Around the same time as writing 'Engine of Love', an American TV station invited Lloyd Webber to compose songs for an animated film of Cinderella.
In this version of the story, the Prince would hold a competition to decide which engine would pull the royal train across the United States of America. Cinderella would be a steam engine and the ugly sisters would be a diesel engine and an electric engine. The project went into, but Lloyd Webber remained interested in the idea of telling a story with trains. Starlight Express proper began in early 1981. Lloyd Webber asked lyricist Richard Stilgoe to help him revive the idea as a concert for schools, in the style of Lloyd Webber's breakthrough musical,. Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe presented two songs the following summer at the.
The director watched the performance and offered to help develop the material from something ‘twee’ to something with more ‘spectacle and theatre magic’. Together, Lloyd Webber, Stilgoe and Nunn developed the story to include the idea of trains and coaches racing.
The choreographer was brought onboard along with the designer, who suggested staging the show on roller skates. In 1983 the first act of Starlight Express was workshopped by Nunn and Phillips with a cast that included the comedienne. Based on workshop's success, Starlight Express went into full-scale production with an opening date of March 1984. Synopsis Starlight Express has been revised many times since it was first produced.
Each professional production has differed from the last. These differences range from tweaks to lyrics, to the omission or inclusion of entire songs, characters and sub-plots. Throughout Starlight Express’s history, however, the fundamental story has stayed the same: a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, races in a championship against modern engines in the hope of impressing a first-class carriage, Pearl. This plot summary reflects the show as it was first produced, in the West End in 1984. Act 1 Late at night, a child plays with his toy trains. Calling himself ‘’, he presides over a championship to decide which of his trains is ‘the fastest in the world’. He falls asleep and, in his dreams, the championship begins.
The reigning champion – a called Greaseball – enters with his gang. They boast of diesel's supremacy ( Rolling Stock). A called Rusty enters. Greaseball mocks Rusty, who replies that he will win the championship, despite steam being obsolete compared to diesel ( Call Me Rusty).
Control intervenes and orders Rusty to collect the from the marshalling yard. Rusty returns with the coaches: a called Dinah, a smoking car called Ashley, a called Buffy, and a called Pearl. Control sends Rusty away to fetch the freight trucks as the coaches introduce themselves to the audience (A Lotta Locomotion). Greaseball returns.
He boasts again, this time to the coaches (Pumping Iron). Rusty returns with the six cars that make up the freight train: three called Rocky 1, Rocky 2 and Rocky 3, a brick truck called Flat Top, an called Dustin, and a called C.B. They introduce themselves to the audience and argue with the coaches over whether it's preferable to carry people or cargo (Freight). Control declares entries for the championship open. Six trains arrive to challenge Greaseball: Bobo, a French; Espresso, the Italian; Weltschaft, the German; Turnov, a Russian engine on the; Hashamoto, a Japanese; and The City of Milton Keynes, an from Great Britain.
Entries are about to close when a surprise entry arrives: Electra, an electric train. Accompanied by his five components – an armaments truck called Krupp, a repair truck called Wrench, a money truck called Purse, a freezer truck called Volta and an animal truck called Joule – Electra declares that electricity is the future of speed (AC/DC). Greaseball and Electra square up to each other as the entrants form a parade to celebrate the race (Coda of Freight). Control announces the rules of the championship: the trains will compete in pairs, with an engine pulling a coach. There will be three eliminator heats. The winner of each heat will go into the final to decide the fastest train.
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The engines start to pick their coaches. Rusty offers to race with Pearl, but she rejects him, explaining that she is waiting for her ‘dream train’ (He Whistled at Me). Electra's messenger, Purse, enters with an invitation from Electra. Even though Electra is not her dream train either, she accepts, leaving Rusty alone. The first heat pits Greaseball and Dinah against Espresso and Buffy, and Hashamoto and C.B. Sabotages Hashamoto by applying his brakes at key moments in the race.
Greaseball and Dinah win comfortably, claiming a place in the final. After the race, Dinah objects to Greaseball's cheating. In response he abandons her. Comforts Dinah (There’s Me). Meanwhile, a lonely Rusty has retreated to the where an old steam train called Poppa – a former champion – is singing a blues song to the freight cars (Poppa’s Blues). Poppa tries to persuade Rusty to race without Pearl, urging him to have faith in a mythical force he calls ‘the Starlight Express’. When Rusty refuses, Poppa introduces him to an old called Belle (Belle The Sleeping Car).
Rusty agrees to race with Belle. They compete in the second eliminator heat against Electra and Pearl, and Weltschaft and Joule. Electra and Pearl finish first, securing a place in the final. Rusty and Belle finish in last place.
Already despondent after losing Pearl as his race partner, Rusty loses his last shreds of confidence. Poppa decides to step up and prove that steam power is still relevant, despite everyone's misgivings, by racing himself in the third eliminator heat. Only Dustin, the heavy aggregate hopper, is willing to race with him. Rusty points out that the race is already full, but suddenly Control announces that the British train has been scrapped, leaving space for a late entry. Poppa interprets this as a sign from the Starlight Express and enters the race. The third eliminator heat pits Poppa and Dustin against Bobo and Ashley, and Turnov and Wrench.
Poppa wins the race, securing a place in the final against Greaseball and Electra, but the effort of outracing the others and pulling the hefty Dustin exhausts him. Now worn out, he begs Rusty to take his place.
Rusty refuses at first, but then he notices Pearl with Electra and is jealous. Offers to race with him, Rusty announces that he will take Poppa's place.
Greaseball and the other competitors mock him then leave. Alone, Rusty prays to the Starlight Express for help in the final (Starlight Express). Act 2 The trains debate whether Rusty should be allowed to take Poppa's place in the final, since he's already competed and lost, or whether the place should go instead to Bobo, who finished second in Poppa's heat (The Rap).
They ultimately decide to let Rusty race. Control offers the engines the chance to change partners. Pearl abandons Electra and joins Greaseball, leaving Dinah feeling betrayed.
Dinah expresses her shame at being uncoupled, although she can’t bring herself to say the word itself (U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.). Ashley, Buffy and Belle try to persuade Dinah to fight for Greaseball's affections (Rolling Stock (Reprise)). But instead she accepts an offer from Electra to replace Pearl at the final. Elsewhere, C.B. Hatches a plan. He tells Greaseball he’ll help him win the championship by sabotaging Rusty.
He then tells Electra he’ll wipe out Greaseball, clearing the way for Electra to win. When Electra expresses his surprise at C.B.’s duplicity, C.B. Explains that he’s spent a career secretly causing for fun (C.B.). The final takes place between Electra and Dinah, Greaseball and Pearl, and Rusty and C.B. Sabotages Rusty, slowing him down so he misses a on the tracks and can’t finish the race. Electra and Greaseball finish in a dead heat.
Control announces that there will be another race, with Electra and Greaseball going head-to-head to decide the winner. Rusty complains that he was cheated, but the marshals refuse to listen. Pearl confronts Greaseball, but he warns her to say nothing, as the marshals would consider her complicit and punish her as well. Rusty retreats to the freight yard, where he bumps into the Rockies. They tell him that without luck, he will never win and that he should give up and ‘just sit quiet at the back of the train’. ( Right Place, Right Time).
The Rockies leave Rusty alone. He appeals again to the mythical Starlight Express for help, and this time, it hears. The Starlight Express appears in front of Rusty, reminding him that whatever strength he needs – the starlight – is within him already ( I Am The Starlight). The Starlight Express disappears and Rusty finds himself back in the freight yard with Dustin, who says he was just asleep, but felt the starlight's presence. Rusty asks Dustin to race with him in the final.
He accepts and they head off together. Moments before the race, Dinah, angry with the way Electra treats her, disconnects from him. Electra quickly appeals to C.B. To take her place. The trains gather to watch what they expect will be a head-to-head final between Greaseball and Pearl, and Electra and C.B. Suddenly Rusty arrives with Dustin.
The marshals allow him to enter the race. The race is fast and furious.
This time, the downhill track turns Dustin's weight into an advantage for Rusty. Greaseball struggles with an unwilling Pearl holding him back, and Electra uses all his power to disrupt his opponents. Electra zaps electricity at Greaseball, but misses and injures Pearl.
Greaseball, showing no concern, simply disconnects Pearl at full speed. Rusty diverts from the race course just in time to save her, but at the cost of falling into a distant third place.
To avoid being disqualified for not having a coach, Greaseball starts to grapple with Electra over C.B. The fight degenerates into chaos and Greaseball, Electra and C.B. Crash, allowing Rusty to win the race. But instead of celebrating he leaves immediately to find Pearl. Control warns that, if Rusty doesn’t return quickly, his lap of honour will be cancelled. Humiliated and furious, Electra leaves the race track, swearing never to return ( No Comeback).
Greaseball and C.B. Emerge in a tangled wreck. They lament the heavy toll that racing has taken on them ( One Rock ’n’ Roll Too Many). Poppa demands that Greaseball and C.B. Help find Rusty.
Away from the other engines, Pearl fears that she caused Rusty to lose the race. She realises that of all the trains she's raced with, only Rusty ever acted selflessly towards her ( Only He). Rusty arrives. He tells Pearl that he won the race and confesses his love for her ( Only You). The other trains arrive. Greaseball finally apologises to Dinah for his behaviour and they reconcile. Greaseball complains that he's ‘finished’ as a racer, but Poppa offers to rebuild him as a steam engine.
Control tries to assert some control, announcing that Rusty's lap of honour is cancelled. Tired of Control's behaviour, Poppa and the other engines tell Control to ‘shut it’ and celebrate the second coming of steam power ( Light at the End of the Tunnel). Characters The voice-over characters. Control, the young child in whose dream the story takes place. Mom, Control's mother The Engines. Rusty McCoy, the play's protagonist.
He is a steam engine from the USA who longs to enter the race and win the heart of the beautiful Pearl. Rambling Poppa McCoy/Rambling Momma McCoy, the retired champion Starlight Express Engine and father/mother of Rusty who now pulls the Freight Trucks. Greaseball, the macho Daylight Diesel Engine, formerly crowned by Control as the reigning champion and one of the play's two main antagonists. Electra, a futuristic electric engine, nicknamed by Control as 'the Engine of the Future' and one of the play's two main antagonists.
Bobo/Coco 1 and 2, the Underwater Train Engines from France. Espresso/Pendelino 1 and 2, the Riviera/Rome-to-Milan Express Engines from Italy. Weltschaft/Ruhrgold/The Flying Hamburger/Rhinegold 1 and 2, the Class 103 Intercontinental Engines from Germany. Turnov/Vladimir 1 and 2, the Engines from Russia. Yoshimoto/Hashamoto/Nintendo/Hashimoto/Nakamura/Yamamoto/Manga 1 and 2, the Engines from Japan. The City of Milton Keynes/The Prince of Wales/Brexit, the Royal Engine from Great Britain.
( Starlight Express on Ice also included the Canadian Engine, Canuck and the Mexican Engine, Cesar, Expreso Astral included Carioca, the Brazilian Engine and Pibe, the Argentinian Engine) The Coaches. Pearl the Observation Car, the newest 1st class observation coach who is searching for her 'dream train'. Dinah the Dining Car, a sweet and lovable Dining car. Ashley the Smoking Car, wise, sexy and smoky. Buffy the Buffet Car, smart and sassy, hot and cheap and quick.
Belle the Sleeping Car, an old but luxurious sleeping car (cut from all productions after Broadway). Duvay the Sleeping Car (replaced Ashley in the 2012 UK Tour and licensed Amateur productions). Carrie the Luggage Car (replaced Buffy in the 30th Anniversary Bochum production). Belle the Lounge Car (replaced Ashley in the 30th Anniversary Bochum production). Tassita the Quiet Car (only featured in the 2017 workshop at The Other Palace Theatre in London) The Freight Trucks.
Rocky 1, 2 and 3 – a trio of boxcar siblings. Rocky 4 was added in the late 1980s following the release of the movie. Hip Hopper 1, 2 and 3 (replaced the Rockies in the US/UK Tours and the revised Bochum production). Flat-Top the Brick Truck – a flatcar who longs to become a new member of Greaseball's Gang. Dustin the Big Aggregate Hopper - a friend of Rusty who carries gravel and other aggregates. Shy and sensitive about his weight.
CB the Red Caboose – a brake truck. He is a two-faced psychopath who causes disaster wherever he goes. A major character in the original plot, he was cut during revisions to the London production and is only a minor character in later productions. Electra's Components. Krupp 1 and 2 the Armaments Trucks (removed from the US/UK Tours and the Bochum production in 2017). Wrench the Repair Truck. Purse the Money Truck (removed from the 2018 30th Anniversary Bochum Production).
Volta 1 and 2 the Freezer Trucks. Joule 1 and 2 the Dynamite Trucks. Killerwatt the Security Truck (Replaced the Krupps and Purse in the 30th Anniversary Bochum Production) Ensemble.
Gonk 1 and 2 – trick skating trucks who wear rollerblades rather than quad skates and function as race marshalls but do not sing. They wield the start and finish flags at the beginning and end of the races, tow crashed engines off the track and decide on the outcome of the aborted 'Uphill Final'. The 2nd and 3rd Class Sleepers - originally portrayed by the same performers as Joule and Volta in the original 1984 production and removed during the shows revisions. Greaseball's Gang and Components – a chorus of engines and trucks who follow Greaseball himself. The original London production included his components Tank, Gook and Lube.
Trax 1 and 2 (replaced the Gonks in the US/UK Tours and the revised Bochum production). Musical numbers The musical numbers in Starlight Express have changed many times since the first production opened in 1984. Each new production is ‘re-inventedrewritten, rearranged, restaged and brought up to date rather than just being a copy of the original.’ This is because the show was envisaged as an introduction to live theatre for young audiences, particularly audiences ‘for whom theatre was a no-go zone’. The score is grounded in, which changes with each generation.
Therefore, as Lloyd Webber has said, ‘ Starlight Express by its nature has to change’. This list shows the musical numbers in the original West End production, then which numbers have been added or removed over the years. Act 1.
Rolling Stock – Greaseball and the Gang. Call Me Rusty – Rusty, Pearl, Dinah, Buffy and Ashley. A Lotta Locomotion – Dinah, Ashley, Buffy and Pearl †. Pumping Iron – Greaseball, Pearl, Ashley, Dinah, Buffy, 2nd and 3rd class Sleepers.
Freight – Pearl, Ashley, Dinah, Buffy, Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky III, C.B, Dustin, Flat-Top. Entry of the National Engines - The Company. AC/DC – Electra, Krupp, Wrench, Purse, Joule, Volta and Company. Coda of Freight - The Company. He Whistled at Me – Pearl †.
Race: Heat 1 - Greaseball, Dinah, Espresso, Buffy, Hashamoto, CB. There's Me – C.B. †.
Poppa's Blues – Poppa, Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rusty. Belle the Sleeping Car – Belle †. Race: Heat 2 - Electra, Pearl, Weltschaft, Joule, Rusty, Belle. Race: Heat 3 - Bobo, Ashley, Turnov, Wrench, Poppa, Dustin †. Laughing Stock – The Company.
– Rusty Act 2. The Rap – The Company. – Dinah. Rolling Stock (Reprise) – Dinah, Belle, Ashley and Buffy †.
C.B. – C.B, Electra, Krupp, Wrench, Purse, Joule, Volta.
Race: Uphill Final - Greaseball, Pearl, Electra, Dinah, Rusty, CB. Right Place, Right Time – Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky III. – Rusty, Starlight Express, Dustin. He Whistled at Me (Reprise) – Dinah, Electra, Krupp, Wrench, Purse, Volta, Joule, C.B. †.
Race: Downhill Final - Greaseball, Pearl, Electra, CB, Rusty, Dustin. No Comeback – Electra, Krupp, Wrench, Purse, Joule, Volta †. One Rock & Roll Too Many – Greaseball, C.B. Only He – Pearl †. – Pearl, Rusty †.
– The Company † denotes songs no longer used in any production of Starlight Express. Additional songs These songs have been added to various incarnations of the show:. Engine of Love (replacing 'Call Me Rusty'). He'll Whistle at Me. Crazy (replacing 'Call Me Rusty'). (replacing 'He Whistled at Me'). Next Time You Fall in Love (lyrics by ) (replacing 'Only He'/'Only You').
A Whole Lotta Locomotion (lyrics by ) (replacing 'A Lotta Locomotion'). I Do (music Alistair Lloyd-Webber, lyrics by and ) (replacing 'Only He'/'Only You').
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