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Trevor Nunn's follow-up to My Fair Lady, a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 40s classic musical South Pacific, has been widely anticipated. Another lavish musical, another production with more than an eye to the National's box office.
The question - apart from whether the National should be staging such shows - has been whether the show would repeat My Fair Lady's runaway success. On first glance, the answer is it could well do - Nunn has teamed up again with Matthew Bourne as choreographer to produce a show of enormous energy and fun, with a good ensemble cast and a beautiful set.
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Philip Quast as the mysterious Frenchman Emile de Becque, also uses his superb voice to great effect and lends the production a serious mien, despite an accent which seems at times borrowed from 'Allo 'Allo.