But I enjoyed it immensely and thought it was different, brave and very good indeed. It somehow seemed to me more Sondheim than Lloyd Webber. Unusual, clever, courageous (it's not a populist theme - an innocent person wrongly convicted by the Establishment).

The girl playing Keeler is terrific, as is the actor playing Stephen Ward. Good old Anthony Calf is great and there's a lovely caricature of a drunken Russian.

I remember the Profumo affair when I was a teenager; it set the world afire. But it's odd as a subject for a musical and I suspect it won't be a great success with critics or public. But it deserves to be.