Only You (Pearl and Rusty) Only You (Pearl and Rusty) "Only You" is the love duet from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Starlight Express". It is performed by the protagonist, Rusty, a young steam locomotive and his true love, the observation car, Pearl. "Only You" is the second version of the show-stopping love song at the key moment in "Starlight Express". In the Original London production, Pearl sang a solo "Only He", a passionate power ballad originally performed by Stephanie Lawrence. At the end of this solo Rusty came to find Pearl, and together they sang a very short reprise of the song, "Only You". "Only He"
Andrew Lloyd Webber Covington singing the part of Eva Perón. The song "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" became a hit single and the musical was staged at the Prince Edward Theatre in a production directed by Harold Prince and starring Elaine Paige in the title role. Patti LuPone created the role of Eva on Broadway for which she won a Tony. "Evita" was a highly successful show that ran for ten years in the West End. It transferred to Broadway in 1979. Rice and Lloyd Webber parted ways soon after "Evita". In an interview in 2011, LuPone commented, "He writes crap music... "Evita"