After a sell-out season at the London Palladium, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's musical Cats is now two weeks into an eight-week run at the Blackpool Opera House.

For those who have not seen the show, adapted from TS Eliot's 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats', it focuses on the annual Jellicle Ball, where each year the Jellicle cats meet and their leader Old Dueteronomy, announces which of them will be reborn into a new life.

But the plot, thin as it is, hardly matters. This is a show about colour, spectacle, movement and dance and it does not disappoint.

The cast of around 25 are all superb dancers and can all sing. They energetically give us a heady mixture of ballet, gymnastics, tap and even rap as they portray a wide variety of feline characters.

The show features Jane McDonald, who rose to fame in 1998 after her appearance on the BBC show The Cruise. She gets to sing the classic Lloyd-Webber song Memory.

But really this is an ensemble piece, where the whole cast is involved most of the time.

The dance routines are amazing and the cast members inhabit all parts of the set - a giant rubbish dump. They also regularly leave the stage to roam the aisles.

This a big show and the audience was on its feet at the end.

* Cats runs until September 5.