PREPARE to be dazzled as the ultimate celebration of the disco era turns the venerable old Palace building into a glitterball sensation.

Saturday Night Fever, the movie which made John Travolta a star and which spawned arguably the greatest soundtrack of all time, is now on stage in Manchester and it's spectacular.

Forget Strictly. If you want to see breathtaking dance routines, this is the show for you.

Then there's the music. The live band are worth the price of admission on their own. Couple this with the show's very own Bee Gees - A J Jenks, Oliver Thomson and Drew Ferry - who take on the bulk of the vocal duties covering classics such as Staying Alive, More Than A Woman and of course Night Fever and you have a night of toe-tapping thrills that will make you want to hit the dancefloor.

Jack Wilcox is a hugely impressive Tony Manero, the Brooklyn paint store worker for whom the disco is his only escape from miserable existence.

He struts like a peacock, he preens himself in front of the mirror and on the dancefloor you can't take your eyes off him. The energy and fluency of his movements is astounding - although a certain percentage of the audience were equally impressed when he performed the simple act of changing clothes, wolf whistles raining down from the balcony.

Tony's dance competition partner Stephanie - is played by the equally impressive Rebekah Bryant.

Both their individual dances and the many group dances are flawless. They are what makes this show so special. A word too for Faizal Jaye as the club's resident DJ who threatened to take the roof off the theatre with Disco Inferno.

As a story Saturday Night Fever is dark, very dark. There are themes of (spoiler alert) drug taking, gang violence, child abuse, misogyny and rape which contrast and jar with the glitz and upbeat soundtrack.

This production really downplays the storyline so that it almost becomes incidental, being used simply to link one glorious dance routine to the next. And, if you're being critical it ends on a whimper rather than the major emotional moment it could have been. But honestly it doesn't really matter because that just leads to a rampaging, riotous encore that will have you leaving the theatre with those great songs running around your brain.

Saturday Night Fever runs until, Saturday. Details from www.atgtickets.com