The sparkling white wine and references to it are features of many of the acts, with a woman adeptly using her feet and toes to lift a bottle and pour champagne into a glass. And a female performer has watchers in awe when she makes amazing movements while most of her body is inside a clear giant balloon that represents a champagne bubble.

Blanc de Blanc has a lively mix of comedy, cabaret, dance and acrobatic events, with an early scene showing gymnast Milena Straczynski doing incredible things on a luggage trolley lifted high above the floor, and an aerial routine by Hampus Jansson and Milena Straczynski using straps above a pool.

The stage-end pool is increasingly used as the show progresses, with the initially debonair and elegantly garbed show host Monsieur Romeo wearing a Speedo while sitting in it with a champagne-drinking woman.

Monsieur Romeo is helped and hindered by his assistant, amusing Spencer Novich, who does very funny things with language, confusing his boss’s use of the French word “merci” with “messy”. Novich’s comic timing is laugh-raisingly extraordinary, especially in a scene which has him clothesless alongside two naked women and, like them, adeptly using his hands to cover body parts that usually remain hidden.

The other performers – Cassie Audiffrin, Jess Mews, J’aiMime, Laura New and Shun Sugimoto – add to the fun, with director Scott Maidment and the backstage team helping to make what could be seen as a very rude show generally enjoyable. And the background music used, including songs such as La Vie En Rose, Mr Sandman, Good Morning, and Pop Goes the Weasel, underline the timelessness of many of the situations shown.

The show could be tighter in places. While there is understandably audience participation, including one person taken on stage and shown, in a smile-raising manner, how to open a bottle of champagne, a second act scene that has many watchers come up and take photos of themselves with performers needlessly slows the action.

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