NO show can have everything, but Disney's High School Musical: The Ice Tour goes pretty close.
It is a high-octane singing, dancing, ice-skating spectacular production of two blockbusting movies - all it needs are celebrities, Simon Cowell and a telephone vote and every box of modern-day entertainment would be ticked.
A breathtakingly energetic cast zips through the two films in less than two hugely entertaining hours.
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The script is a distant third priority behind the sensational figure-skating, and the movies' full array of smash-hit songs, which just keep coming at you with barely any respite.
The set is minimal - just a surplus big-screen backdrop on scaffolding which could stand a cover and the odd mobile prop.
But the show is a visual treat all the same, simply because of the stunning quality of performance and choreography.
The Disney factor makes this truly a show for all the family, which was mirrored in the wide age range of the audience, the huge young female teenage element of which was quickly whipped into a frenzy which peaked at the end. The production is big on charm, but has only a passing interest in getting the storyline across, so it is maybe a good idea to hire the High School Musical movies before you go.
In short, it is a saccharine love story, along the Grease lines, of two people with very different sets of friends who overcome peer pressure to be together.
Ticket prices of £32.50 in the front rows are a bit steep, and the speed they rip through the storylines possibly a bit too frenetic.
But it's value for money with such quality entertainment, and a 9.20pm finish is already well past the bedtime of most of the many very young children at the arena last night.
Disney High School Musical: The Ice Tour
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