If you’re looking for a feel-good night out, there’s no better bet than a jukebox musical packed with absolute bangers and a cracking storyline – part of it borrowed from the Bard himself.

&Juliet sees one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies refashioned to give its titular heroine a shot at life without her man, backed by a solid-gold soundtrack courtesy of Max Martin – the Swedish hitmaker behind Britney Spears, Katy Perry, The Backstreet Boys and more.

What if Juliet didn’t (spoiler alert) follow Romeo’s lead and take her own life, but tried to move on? That’s the idea put forward by Mrs Shaky, Anne Hathaway, determined to give his female characters more control over their fates than she has over her own.

There are twists and turns as the Shakespeares battle for the upper hand, and while the show has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, it also tackles deeper issues.

Jordan Broatch as Juliet’s gender-neutral friend May gave fresh nuance to the Britney number I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet a Woman, while Lara Denning owned the stage as Anne Hathaway, boiling with the injustice of her backstage role as homemaker while hubby basked in glory and left her his “second-best bed”.

Star names Jay McGuiness and Lee Latchford-Evans acquitted themselves well as Will Shakespeare and stereotypical French nobleman Lance respectively, and Gerardine Sacdalan made a feisty Juliet - but there were so many knock-out performances in the ensemble.

I made a bet with Daughter over how long it would take to sing TikTok-trending I Want It That Way. You won’t have to wait long, and it’s done to great comic effect.

By the end, as the confetti cannons discharged their load over the auditorium, the audience rose to its feet as one, conquered by this musical feast. Parting was, indeed, such sorrow; miss it, and I’d have to ask: wherefore were you?