That's Entertainment

I can be as transported by Rach's Third as any other cineaste, but am nevertheless at one with Noel Coward as to the potency …

I can be as transported by Rach's Third as any other cineaste, but am nevertheless at one with Noel Coward as to the potency of songs with lyrics like scooby-dooby-doo or Chattanooga Choo-choo. As somebody else said, there are really only two kinds of music; good and bad.

That's Entertainment finds its material in the 1940s and `50s, from such composers as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and their peers of that amazing era. Whether sourced in Tin Pan Alley or its Broadway equivalent, Schubert Alley, the songs are memorable.

The show also celebrates the singers who first launched them: Crosby, Sinatra, Garland, Fitzgerald, Astaire and the rest. Jimmy O'Byrne, Alex Sharpe, Kilian Boushel, Tracey Martin, Helen Jordan and Kevin Hynes have the voices and personalities to draw us down that most evocative of cul-de-sacs, memory lane. To quote George Gershwin, who could ask for anything more?