Cherry and Blossom: A Night at the Movies is a live performance of some popular show tunes (including The Lady Is A Tramp and Pet Me Poppa), all taken from the time period between the silent movie and the fifties hit. Fitted in between these numbers are the squealing and occasionally amusing antics of Cherry (Eve Rosato) and Blossom (Emily-Jane Swanson; both performers are also the show’s writers), their story relating to the songs in the usual tenuous way that musicals’ stories do.

The two characters are unsuccessful auditionees in sparkling yet seemingly disappointing early Hollywood, until they at last land coveted roles in the motion picture ‘Guys And Dolls Prefer Blondes Who Like It Hot At Christmas’. It’s a good enough concept to hang the story on, though the ‘filming’ sequences towards the end of the musical feel too much like simple repetition of the production and not enough like a fresh Hollywood homage.

 It was all very tongue-in-cheek. Cherry and Blossom, as enamoured by Hollywood as the target audience supposedly is, were shown to be not the sharpest knives in the drawer – “we’ll be in Cuba,” said the marginally stupider Blossom, “so we’d be speaking Cuban”. And so on. There were some nice pastiches of famous scenes: an intentionally badly acted version of Rhett leaving Scarlett in Gone With The Wind was a particular highlight. But for the most part, the general chatter and the expected (and gleefully underdeveloped) romantic subplot just wasn’t funny or interesting enough to fill the hour.

Thankfully, the singing was of a very good quality (particularly Rosato’s), even if it’s not especially exciting, and the cast’s accents (both when singing and speaking) were fine. The girls’ American twangs were sometimes particularly annoying, but this was surely an intended result of their characters’ traits rather than inadvertently unpleasant shrillness. The set and costumes, clearly more budget-restricted than this weeks’ sumptuous, all-cooking mainshow, manage to be kitsch yet glamorous.

This was depth-free entertainment, which is a perfectly acceptable thing for entertainment to be. But Cherry And Blossom is not entertaining enough to justify that lack of depth. Though clever in its own way, there was nothing particularly special about this production. Either go with a huge group of friends and resolutely sing along in the stalls, or just stay in your room and search A Guy Is A Guy on YouTube instead.