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After the success of ''[[Cats]]'' in 1981, [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] began looking into writing a musical based on the [[Thomas the Tank Engine]] stories, with his kids in mind, but couldn't get the amount of creative control he wanted. Instead, he pulled up a few older ideas he'd had proposed to him in the 1970s- among them, a musical version of ''The Little Engine That Could'' and a new version of "[[Cinderella (Literature)|Cinderella]]" and initially tried to combine them into the story of a little steam engine who's bullied by her electric and diesel stepsisters, but ends up being chosen as the royal train by the Prince after winning a race and losing a piston in the process, which the Prince uses to track her down. This idea, with many ''many'' changes made, ended up evolving into ''Starlight Express'', whose first version premiered in London in 1984.