boeing! cinderella hot under the night collar

Cilla looked fresh as a proverbial daisy, especially considering she'd been to Christopher Biggins' 60th birthday bash the night before and had got up at 6am to come back to Liverpool.
I also had a chat with Prince Charming Stephen Fletcher who was there with his family - I recognised them from the Liverpool Nativity a whole year ago when I met them standing in William Brown Street covered in fairy lights and tinsel!
It's been quite a year for the Lipa graduate, with a leading role in Eric's at the Everyman as well.
On Monday I was reviewing at the Royal Court where festive cheer comes in different packages - mostly drunken, lairy and - in the case of Lenny Wood's hapless stag - naked.
He was very, very careful about the positioning of a ball and chain which was his only protection against a very public "full monty"!
Now Royal Court bosses say the production is such a success they're extending its run by a whole week.
And last night there was non-Christmassy festive farce at the Playhouse whose seasonal offering this year isn't the Flint Street Nativity, but Boeing Boeing, the story of a Parisien lothario trying to keep three air hostess fiancees on the go at once with increasingly desperate and riotous consequences.
It was a slow burner for me, but by about half way through I was really loving it.
What with Mother Goose at the Everyman, and Terry Titter (for the adults) and Emperor's New Clothes at the Unity, even with the recession upon us there's a good chance for some real Christmas cheer in Liverpool this year.