Buffy is the easy-going Buffet Car in Starlight Express. She is close friends with Ashley, Dinah and Pearl, who form the Passenger Train.
Personality[]
Buffy is an easy-going girl, "Hot and cheap and quick" is how she introduces herself. She's a smart, practical girl, she doesn't get emotionally attached or too upset when things don't go her way. She'll flirt with anyone, and is willing to go along with changes of plan and adapt to new situations.
Tickovers: Buffy often mimes carrying a tray of drinks, taking orders, serving food or drinks. Sometimes she can be seen to polish the display cabinet on her bodice.
Story[]
Buffy's first entrance in the original show is "Call Me Rusty", where she and the other coaches try to dissuade Rusty from what they see as a hopeless case, him wanting to enter and win the race. She then also joins with Dinah and Ashley trying to dissuade Pearl from racing with Rusty, explaining that, sweet tho he is, he lacks "A Lotta Locomotion". Buffy hooks up with Espresso for Race One, but they're beaten by Greaseball and Dinah. When Dinah falls apart singing "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.", Buffy patiently waits to let her get her story out, before joining Belle and Ashley in picking her up again. Buffy and Ashley are particularly close in the choreography for "Girls' Rolling Stock".
In the revised London show, Buffy got a lot more racing to do once Caboose was cut - she ended up racing with Rusty for the Uphill Final, and then with Electra for the Downhill Final. This re-arrangement required a few new lines of dialogue - after Girls' Rolling Stock, and Purse has collected Dinah, Ashley and Buffy discuss what to do next.
| PURSE: | Dinah, you're honoured, Electra has chosen. |
| DINAH: | Yeah, ok, I'll race with him, But if Greaseball changes his mind.. |
| ASHLEY: | So who do we go with? |
| BUFFY: | You and the French train make a great team! |
| ASHLEY: | You take Rusty, use a head of Steam! |
| BUFFY: | Crazy, I'm stuck with the slow one, it's crazy |
| RUSTY: | Hey! It's me or it's no-one I'm crazy, going crazy, |
| RUSTY & BUFFY: | Going crazy, going crazy... |
Then an additional refrain in Dinah's Disco after Dinah has uncoupled Electra, in place of calling for Caboose:
| ELECTRA: | Who cares, Who cares, Dining cars can make you wait for ever |
| Hey, buffet, make my day, make it fast and make it now or never! | |
| BUFFY: | Electricity gives me a charge |
Appearance[]
Gallery[]
Role[]
Bochum, 1998
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History[]
Buffy featured in the original lineup of coaches with Pearl, Dinah, and Ashley. She maintained a position in the coaches lineup when UK Tours replaced Ashley with her similar counterpart, Duvay.
Buffy's role was replaced in the 2017 Workshop by Tassita the Quiet Car, a concept that didn't seem to work for the updated 2018 show in Bochum, which used Carrie the Luggage Van in Buffy's place.
Cast[]
London
| 1984 - 1985 | Nancy Wood |
| 1985 - 1986 | Robin Cleaver |
| 1986 - 1989 | Caron Cardelle |
| 1989 - 1990 | Nola Haynes |
| 1990 - 1992 | Michelle Ballentyne |
| 1992 - 1993 | Voyd |
| 1993 - 1995 | Natalie Powers |
| 1995 - 1996 | Anna Jane Casey |
| 1996 - 1997 | Gael Johnson |
| 1997 - 1998 | Rebekka Gibbs |
| 1998 - 1999 | Sharon Mudie |
| 1999 - 2000 | Roni Bruno |
| 2000 - 2001 | Chellie Michaels |
| 2001 - 2002 | Amy Field |
Broadway
| 1987 - 1988 | Jamie Beth Chandler |
| 1988 - 1989 | Lola Knox |
Japan / Australia Tours
| 1987 | Charlotte Avery |
| 1990 | Caron Cardelle |
Bochum, Germany
| 1988 - 1989 | Carol Hoffman |
| 1989 - 1990 | Aiko Nakasone |
| 1990 - 1992 | Ivy Fox |
| 1992 - 1993 | Anne Tiger |
| 1993 - 1994 | Kyla Grogan |
| 1994 - 1996 | Kathy McIvor |
| 1996 - 1997 | Isabelle Flachsmann |
| 1997 - 1998 | Jessica Cooper |
| 1998 - 1999 | Danni Kearsley-Wooller |
| 1999 - 2001 | Emma Raciti |
| 2001 - 2002 | Rachel Marshall |
| 2002 - 2004 | Suzy Bastone |
| 2004 - 2005 | Louise Jones |
| 2005 - 2006 | Emma Nelson |
| 2006 - 2007 | Julie Newman |
| 2007 - 2009 | Sarah May |
| 2009 - 2010 | Sian Frost |
| 2010 - 2011 | Kate Morris / Camilla Hardy |
| 2011 - 2012 | Lucy Maria Gill / Carla Pullen |
| 2012 - 2016 | Carla Pullen |
| 2016 - 2017 | Sian Velazquez |
| 2017 - 2018 | Serina Mathew |
| 2018 - | (replaced by Carrie the Luggage Van) |
US Tour 1989 - 1991
| 1989 - 1991 | Nicole Picard |
Las Vegas 1993 - 1997
| 1993 - 1994 | Edyie Fleming |
| 1994 - 1995 | Amanda Clarke |
| 1995 - 1996 | ? |
| 1996 - 1997 | Brigitte Snowden |
| 1997 - close | Jill Marie Petersson |
US Tour 2003 - 2004
| 2003 - 2004 | Joanna Richert |
UK Tours 2004 - 2008
| 2004 - 2005 | Ashley Hale |
| 2006 - 2007 | Alexandra Gotteschall |
| 2007 - 2008 | Kimmi Richards |
NZ Tour 2009
| 2009 | Camilla Hardy |
UK Tour 2012-2013
| 2012 - 2013 | Camilla Hardy |
| Asia 2013 | Camilla Hardy |
Fan Theories[]
See Here for Fan theories about Buffy.