Critics have been making a song and dance over the new West End production of Cabaret, with several awarding five stars in their reviews.

The musical revival, which stars Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley, opened at London's Playhouse Theatre on Sunday.

Dominic Cavendish of The Telegraph awarded it

full marks, saying the show "sends shivers down the spine" and that Redmayne "dazzles" in his role.

"This is it," the writer eulogised. "This is the one."

He labelled British director Rebecca Frecknall's production as "2021's kill-for-a-ticket theatrical triumph".

"Redmayne, returning to theatre after a decade, offers a dazzling vision of the Emcee role, so long associated with Alan Cumming in the [director Sam] Mendes production [from 1993], that makes it freshly glinting and sinister," wrote Cavendish.

"As Sally Bowles, the English deb turned devil-may-care show-girl, Buckley achieves no smaller feat: she makes you laugh, breaks your heart, has you hanging on her every word - sung or otherwise," he continued. "The Irish actress's period accent and distinctive attitude, nonchalance combined with subtle forcefulness and vulnerability, sets her far from Liza Minnelli in the 1972 film."