Taking Tchaikovsky’s sweeping score as his script and his blueprint, Matthew Bourne has built an extraordinary retelling of this ancient tale that taps into the same vein, if you’ll pardon the pun, as the teenage vampire sensation The Twilight Saga. Putting the Gothic into this romance is a masterstroke – it immediately makes for some sumptuous costume opportunities, and laces a predictable love story with a darker and sexier understory.

You can’t really argue with this. Thriller Live delivered what an eager crowd wanted – hit after hit from the great Jacko catalogue. It had to be tight, sassy, had to be ON it. Anything less… well, I dread to think. Backed live by the superb Thriller Band, Shaquille Hemmans, Michael Kavuma, Rory Taylor, Angelica Allen and Sean Christopher all took the night by storm to deliver a pulsing 30 plus songs to an adoring audience. Afterwards, streaming into the high-rise car park, some in the crowd were still singing and dancing . . .