Mrs Doubtfire, the New Comedy Musical is a faithful recreation of the film onstage somewhat marred by thinking about the late Robin Williams. Just as the movie relied on one man’s talent so does the musical, by finding the very accomplished Gabriel Vick to take on the role of the father dispossessed of his children. I don’t know how the grown ups that were children in 1993 will react to this musical. My children, that year, were too engrossed in Jurassic Park to notice Mrs Doubtfire.

The plot is a familiar one: a marriage falls apart and the mother Miranda Hillard (Laura Tebutt) is awarded custody or the arrangements for the children as it is called nowadays. The father Daniel Hillard (Gabriel Vick) gets very limited access to his three children, much to their distress as well as his. The mother has a successful career in fashion and advertises the post of nanny to her children. Daniel changes the phone number to reply and using his multitude of voices puts in several spurious calls to his ex-wife pretending to be very unsuitable candidates, all of whom are rejected.