It is, incredibly, more than 30 years since young Australian theatre director Baz Luhrmann turned a play he co-wrote into a quirky and quite niche film about rebellion in the world of ballroom dancing - which launched his incredible movie career, and sparked the eventual resurgence in ballroom dancing as mainstream entertainment.
That film was released so long ago, that an entire generation in Britain may not even know the ‘Strictly’ part of the BBC series Strictly Come Dancing, which itself started back in 2004, derives from this Australian movie.
But now, Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood is reclaiming the original Strictly story, by directing and choreographing a stage musical of the original film - and it opened last night for a week-long run at the Hippodrome in Bristol.
