Me and My Girl, St Paul's AOS, Astley Bridge. Runs until Saturday

I SUPPOSE most people dream of winning enough money to be able to give up work and leave their daily routines behind. What would we do with a vast amount of cash and what material riches would a new-found wealth bring -- and at what cost?

This was the dilemma facing Bill Snibson in this marvellous production of Me and My Girl. He finds himself heir to a vast estate, but it comes at a price as he must leave his childhood sweetheart and his past life behind.

Ian Roe, in the lead role of cheeky cockney Bill, could have been born to play this role. His delivery of the comic one-liners, which came thick and fast, was perfect. He wasn't so bad at acrobatics either -- the somersault on the settee was perfectly executed.

Nicole Jones played love of his life Sally Smith and her cockney accent was just right.

Helping Bill to become an accepted member of the landed gentry was the snobbish aunt Maria, brilliantly played by Catherine Catherall. She never let her cut-glass accent slip all evening, and the scene where she came on stage wearing a bowler hat almost brought the house down.

Louise Cohen was excellent in her role as Lady Jacqueline, Maria's daughter, the upper class temptress who does her best to woo Bill away from his true love. She looked quite natural in her role -- even when she was scantily clad.

The show is full of well-known songs including, of course, "The Lambeth Walk" and "I'm Leaning on a Lamp-post" which the audience loved, but I particularly enjoyed "Thinking of No-one But Me".

The wardrobe department did a brilliant job in finding all those costumes, they were stunning and captured the 1930s atmosphere perfectly.

This is a sumptuous feast of song, comedy and colour which combines to make a brilliant evening entertainment. Superb. LINDA HURST