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Zorro The Musical: Zorro’s a cut above

Zorro has stormed into the West End and his derring-do proves the perfect antidote to the credit-crunch blues.

Indeed, this almost insanely enjoyable musical, with a fabulous score of stamping flamenco, tavern choruses and tender love songs by the Gipsy Kings, looks like the surprise hit of the summer.

I feared the worst after the last Spanish show at this address, a Hispanic Peter Pan that sounded like the Eurovision Song Contest and looked like a nightmare dreamed up by Salvador Dalí. But the sword-fighting hero with the mask, the black hat and the cape - invented by pulp fiction writer Johnston McCulley in 1919, and a thriving franchise ever since - proves to all his sterling worth.