Pearl The Observation Car

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Pearl is the "new girl" character and female lead in the West End musical Starlight Express. She is an Observation carriage, although in Germany she is referred to as the "first class car". Rusty the Steam Engine is madly in love with her but when he asks her to race with him, she rejects him, explaining her reason that she has "a train I dream about, an engine moved by steam" who is the engine for her. She first races with Electra the Electric Train and then, with Greaseball the Diesel after he dumps Dinah. During the final race, she is too interested in watching Rusty and isn't paying attention to the race itself. Greaseball uncouples her mid race, causing her to nearly crash. At the last moment, she is saved by Rusty. While the race continues, she slips away to think, and finally realizes that Rusty has been the one for her all along.

Perla is the name that was given to Pearl in the 1997 Mexican production, Expreso Astral, that played at the Teatro Polanco in Mexico City. Many of the characters were given new, more Spanish names in this production. Perla's biggest songs were Me Chiflará (He'll Whistle at Me), No Resiste Mi Corazón (Make Up My Heart, literally translates as: "Does not resist My Heart" ) and Si Buscas Otro Amor (Next Time You Fall in Love, literally translates as "If You look for Another Love").

Pearl's character Pearl is young and innocent, but has a dramatic change in character during the show. She lets down two of her closest friends, mainly Rusty, and later, Dinah, when she steals Greaseball. In the mocking "Laughing stock", she even makes fun of Rusty, joining in with Electra and Greaseball as they taunt him.She starts to see the error of her ways when Greaseball uncouples her during the final, leaving her to be rescued by Rusty. She starts to see who her real friends are.

Major Songs Original London

"Call me Rusty" - Quintet with Rusty, Ashley, Dinah and Buffy
"A Lotta Locomotion" - Quartet with Dinah, Buffy, and Ashley
"He Whistled at me" - Solo
"Only He" - Solo
"Only You" - Duet with Rusty

Revised London

"A Lotta Locomotion" - Quartet with Dinah, Buffy, and Ashley
"He'll Whistle at me" - Solo
"Crazy" - Quintet with Rusty, Ashley, Dinah and Buffy
"Make up My Heart" - Solo
"Next time you fall in love" - Duet with Rusty

Bochum

"Leibesexpress" - Quintet with Rusty, Ashley, Dinah and Buffy(Translates as: Love train. English equivalent: Engine of Love)
"Ne Lok mit Locomotion" - Quartet with Dinah, Buffy, and Ashley (Translates as: "A Locomotive with locomotion", English Equivalent: A Lotta Locomotion)
"Crazy" - Quintet with Rusty, Ashley, Dinah and Buffy
"Hilf mir verstehen" - Solo (Translates as: "Help me to understand", English Equivalent: Make up my heart)
"Allein im Licht der Sterne" or "Du allein" - Duet with Rusty (Translate as: "Alone in the Starlight" and "You alone", English Equivalents: Next time you fall in love" and "Only You" )

Japan/Australia tour

"Engine of Love" - Quintet with Rusty, Ashley, Dinah and Buffy
"A Lotta Locomotion" - Quartet with Dinah, Buffy, and Ashley
"Make up My Heart" - Solo
"Only You" - Duet with Rusty

US and UK tours

"A Whole Lotta Locomotion" - Quartet with Dinah, Buffy, and Ashley
"He'll Whistle at me" - Solo
"Crazy" - Quintet with Rusty, Ashley, Dinah and Buffy
"Make up My Heart" - Solo
"Next time you fall in love"(US) or "Only You"(UK) - Duet with Rusty

Costume Over previews in the 1984 London production, Pearl went through at least four separate costumes. Two outfits were a combination of hot pink with black, while the others were pink and white, as they tried to establish what best suited her character. They settled on a mostly white design, with black piping and a puffball skirt.From 1992 onwards she had "Observation" written across the front of her costume and "PM" on her skirt in London, as this was the costume Reva Rice had worn on Broadway and the US Tour. The base was a salmon pink.

The Bochum, Japan/Australia, first US tour and "New" London productions all used the Broadway design, with the all-over pink lycra, paneled skirt with the 'PM' monogram and 'Observation' on a panel across the chest. In London the design was soon adapted and altered, since the designs were flexible there, and lost the 'Observation' panel in favour of a visible cleavage, influenced by Las Vegas redesign.

Although the Las Vegas production initially used the Coaches' costumes from the first US tour, they were soon changed to suit their environment. The leggings came off, the necklines plunged and the skirts shrunk. This was the costume used on the second US tour, and the design came over for the UK tour. Pearl's skirt lost its front panel, and the 'PM' monogram with it. It was replaced by an 'PRR' monogram on her belt, which is the symbol of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (also represented on CB the Red Caboose).

For the obscure Starlight on Ice production, Pearl's colours changed as well as her whole outfit design. There is no pink but only silver and blue. She wore a skirt fashioned as a wheel around her waist, but it's much shorter than in the original productions. She wore gloves that looked like metal framed windows and wore a small hat.

Wigs

Pearl usually has a pink wig, but there have been instances (Reva Rice on Broadway, Lovette George in Bochum) where she either hasn't had a wig at all, or it has been black.

Lovette George's wig was the standard style of topknot with braids and a huge fringe, and great long curls, with lots of sparkly bits pinned in, just made up of black hair rather than pink. Reva Rice originally had no wig at all, which had the unfortunate effect of making the back of her head disappear into the background, making her head appear to be about half the size of everyone else's. After Broadway, though, she wore a pink wig like everyone else.

In the London production, Pearl's pink wig had a topknot style with a clip behind it. In America, she had a "chimney" styled accessory which made her topknot stand up. In Bochum, she has a topknot with a tiara round it.In Starlight on Ice, she had a simple ponytail style. She had, rather than pink hair, blonde hair in that production.

Until recently, with the above exceptions, Pearl has always had a variety of pink hair styles. For the recent US and current UK tours however, the delicate pink wig has been removed in favour of a non-descript colour, which ends just at her shoulders. Presumably the decision to give her a more 'realistic' colour and style was made in a momentary lapse of memory of the fact that Pearl is the anthropomorphic embodiment of a toy railway carriage in a child's dream.

Actresses Pearl's part is written for a young, musical-theatre soprano, although many of her songs have been transposed down for mezzo sopranos to sing.

London

Stephanie Lawrence
Kim Leeson
Maria Jane Hyde
Beverley Brabon
Reva Rice
Sam Lane
Shelley Meredith
Claudia Bradley
Amanda Salmon
Cheryl McAvoy
Marissa Dunlop
Jo Gibb

Broadway

Reva Rice

Japan/Australia

Nikki Belsher

First US Tour

Reva Rice

Bochum

Maria Jane Hyde
Lovette George
Claudia Bradley
Rachelle Rak
Deborah Odell
Cheryl McAvoy
Jennifer Vaden
Nina Pressing
Clarissa Grace Quinlan
Danni Kearsley-Wooller
Rachel Wooding
Amanda Coutts
Katie Stewart

Japan Tour

Nikki Belsher

Las Vegas

Reva Rice
Dawn Marie Church

Mexico

Maru Dueñas

On Ice

Jennifer Schmitz

Second US tour

Clarissa Grace Quinlan

UK Tour

Jane Horn
Miria Parvin
Gemma Atkins

n.b. this list does not contain understudies, and several of the actresses mentioned played the part more than once in a production.