Starlight Express/Trivia
- Cut Song: Several, including some that were necessary for the plot. See the Cut Song page for more details.
- Shout-Out: The three box cars in the original production were named Rocky, Rocky II and Rocky III, whose general moves were based on boxers. These were later replaced by the Totally Radical Hip Hoppers, who served the same purpose but had way less interesting choreography.
- Dinah's song "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D." (or "G.E.K.U.P.P.E.L.T", as it is in German) is a shoutout to Tammy Wynette's "D.I.V.O.R.C.E".
- Was itself shouted out to on Futurama once (an intergalactic delivery train car was called the Starlight Express).
- And on 30 Rock, where Jenna (Jane Krakowski) appeared briefly in a costume [dead link] that bore a startling resemblance [dead link] to Dinah's. Also counts as an Actor Allusion, because Krakowski played Dinah as a teenager in 1987.
- Don't forget the infamous (in the fandom anyway) Family Guy reference. [dead link]
- Technology Marches On: Electra's character design was futuristic... in The Eighties. Little effort has been made to change it.
- Arguably, neglect of this trope forms the crux of the entire plot.
- Unintentional Period Piece: The Really Useful Group realized this too late.
- What Could Have Been: Had the Thomas the Tank Engine musical come to fruition, this show would not exist. Similarly, the hand-drawn original poster provides a glimpse of what the aborted 1970's animated film might have looked like.
- Belle was going to be in the Bochum show, but the casting department could not find anyone capable of handling the role. After her role was reduced on Broadway, Bochum decided to carry on without her.
