It is hard to resist Thom Southerland’s vivid and inventive staging.

It's remarkable to think that Southwark Playhouse only staged its first musical last January: less than two years on and it's no joke to say that the intimate venue stands as London's foremost destination for musical revivals in a 2012 where an Olympics-wary West End has rather lost its nerve. The director responsible for most of these is Thom Southerland, and following 'Parade' and 'Mack & Mabel', it looks like another sellout smash is on the cards with his adaptation of Blake Edwards, Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse's oddball 1995 musical about sexual shenanigans in '30s Paris.