“Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” gets the treatment, too. But why the nurse? Well, wheelchair-bound Courtney has broken her leg skiing and needs constant looking after. But it turns out Virginia has her own thoughts of stardom and can grab a mike, apply gratuitous anaesthetic to her patient and belt out a tune of her own.

The night is full of show routines, parodies and gags. Icons Madonna and Britney come in for some strong treatment early on, with song lyrics heavily re-written to include slagging references to African babies . A tiny Sonny Bono returns from the grave to gaze up at a very substantial Cher: “So put your great big hand in mine, you’re like some great flesh mountain I can climb.”

A pair of evangelising Southern trannies-for-Jesus burst onto the stage to implore us to “pray the gay away”(of course Courtney has made a miraculous recovery from her broken leg by now). They take it even further: “Let your souls go to glory, not to the glory hole”.

But how do they make the transition from glamour queen to proselytising mayhem? The live show is broken up with parodies of a diverse range of films, including Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Notes on a Scandal, The Devil Wears Prada, Beaches and Australia.

Bob Downe makes a guest appearance in one of these, and much of it is original and smart, for which writer Phil Scott should be congratulated.

Perhaps the best moments of the show come when the serious angle of relationships is explored and the three girls harmonise a straight version of Joe Jackson’s Real Men. “Brilliant,” said one member of the audience in perfect timing between the dying of the last vocal notes and the eruption of applause that crowned the evening. – Dunstan Playhouse