Martin Robinson

Amy Di Bartolomeo (formerly one of the queens in Six) goes at the role like a racehorse out of the gate. Her big number, Bon Voyage, is typical of the knowing humour of Mitchell’s production: a homage to Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, with Emily in a wheelchair, surrounded by blue-scrubbed male nurses, having run into traffic after being demoted at Miranda’s annual ball. (Buckland’s Andy, initially given a makeover that makes her look like Lorraine Kelly, sashays into this event in a clingy sheath dress like Pippa Middleton stealing her sister’s wedding.)