It would be easy enough to simply say that Marina Prior and Michael Cormick’s brand-new concert Centrestage is a must-see and be done with it.

Yes, it’s a delicious slice of musical theatre heaven bursting with hits from everyone’s favourite shows. And yes, Prior and Cormick dazzle with their undeniable star quality.

But there is so much more to appreciate in this two-hour journey through the history of Broadway and the West End. Much, much more.

Marina Prior and Michael Cormick. Image supplied

With Barry Humphries’ former musical director and co-writer Andrew Ross at the piano, it spans eight decades of music, beginning with Cole Porter’s Anything Goes in 1934 – a recording of Porter opens the show, with Prior and Cormick coming in on the second verse.

We are treated to highlights from landmark musicals that originated on New York’s Great White Way or were part of the ‘British Invasion’ in the Eighties and Nineties when Prior and Cormick rose to stardom.

There’s a beautiful rendition of the duet Tonight from Bernstein’s West Side Story. Cormick honours the work of lyricist Leslie Bricusse with goosebump-inducing readings of Feeling good from The Roar of the Greasepaint...