It seems an aeon ago, the press night of Moulin Rouge, on 26 November. Since then, there has been illness, Omicron, temporary closure, but the show goes on.

Moulin Rouge the stage musical is the inspired re-hash of the movie made 20 years ago with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor gazing with lascivious rapture at each other as she tries to save the glories of bohemian Paris and Jim Broadbent is the ringmaster who keeps all the can-cans and desperation-fueled decadence going to the tune of effervescent pop songs in a roller coaster of jukebox familiarities.