Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical, Phoenix Theatre, First Night review: Joyous and refreshing revival of Gurinder Chadha's film
This is the most irresistibly joyous musical-theatre make-over of a much-loved movie since Billy Eliot. It does more for genuine Girl Power in the span of an evening than an eternity of Viva Forever! (the short-lived Spice Girls juke-box venture) could have achieved.