Loveday Ingram’s gorgeous, tuneful staging - starring hoofer Tim Flavin and sweet-voiced Janie Dee - was a summer blessing at Chichester last season. Now with its big, beefy band, precision dance and lavish art deco settings, it  arrives to banish London's winter blues. Bil1ed as the new Gershwin musical, it can also be acclaimed as a fresh take on Tommy Tune's Broadway production which in 1983 drew songs and a plot fragment from Funny Face, wrapped them in a new book and seasoned the whole with other Gershwin standards.

lngram's production and Lez Brotherston's brilliant designs and transformations gain focus within the Piccadilly proscenium arch. Those who got drenched at Chichester during the desert island scene will avoid the front row, but if the spray effect is now more contained the fun remains as Flavin's intrepid aviator and Dee's swimming star enjoy a splashy dance in the shallows before ending sensuously horizontal in a watery embrace downstage.

Among the supporting players, Jenny Galloway’s undercover cop and Hilton McRae as the villainous Prince Nikki, romantically linked by handcuffs, offer the most exquisitely judged and witty rendition of Funny Face. Best solo dance comes from limber Richard Lloyd King as Mr Magix, a cool makeover man giving nifty demonstrations of the power of tap - although his four Rhythm Boys at first matched their routines to the sentiments of the opening number I Can't Be Bothered Now. But what will take me back to see the show again is the superb chorus work choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood - including a Busby Berkeley style synchronised swimming sequence for the girls and a gloriously energetic Strike Up the Band in sexy aviator outfits.