We’ve seen Trevor Ashley tearing up the stage as Liza Minelli in his internationally acclaimed cabaret shows Liza (on an E) and Liza’s Back! (is Broken) and as Shirley Bassey in the equally brilliant Diamonds are for Trevor. So news that his latest cabaret show would be called Barbra and Me instantly summoned up images of him frocked-up and ready to lend his trademark wit and vocal prowess to an irreverent impersonation of La Streisand.

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In fact, when Ashley makes his grand entrance down one of the aisles at the Ensemble Theatre he is not in drag but dressed in an eye-catching pink jacket with digital prints of Streisand all over it and sparkling red trim. Teamed with black trousers, glittery red bowtie and flashy black slip-on shoes with white, red and gold buckles, it’s quite a look – as you’d expect.

This is, he says, “Trevor untucked” in a show about “the magic, the music and the mem’ries” of Streisand. After launching into I’m the Greatest Star from Funny Girl (intercut with a burst of Broadway Baby), Ashley starts by telling us when and where Streisand was...