This enjoyable production fills the stage with a live band, swags of fabric creating a circus big top, and a flamboyantly costumed cast performing There’s No Business Like Show Business among other Irving Berlin hits.

Norman Pace is unrecognisable in a flamboyant white wig, yards of fringing and thigh high boots as impresario Buffalo Bill, while Emma Williams is terrific as Annie Oakley - her expressive singing voice is ravishing on Moonshine Lullaby. Evolving from gawky country bumpkin to sophisticated sharpshooting legend, her inner emotional development is mirrored through Karen Large’s costume designs.

As her love interest, superseded shooting champion Frank Butler, Jason Donovan seems tense and ill-at-ease. Despite the conflict between Frank’s traditional views of idealised feminine womanhood (The Girl That I Marry) and his growing feelings for her, Donovan simply doesn’t convince as the antihero Annie falls for.

In contrast, Tommy (Yiftach Mizrahi) and Winnie (Lorna Want) light up the stage with romantic excitement in Who Do You Love, I Hope – their love story was immediately believable.

Lizzi Gee’s choreography makes a triumphant showpiece of I’ve Got The Sun In The Morning, transitioning from elegant ballroom waltz to a stomping, thigh-slapping country hoedown.

This show is always a treat.