THIS town ain't big enough for the both of us, the Sparks song forewarned, but Ron and Russell Mael were wrong.

Leeds Grand Theatre had put a 2014 return for Top Hat in the planning diary all of two years ago and so might have frowned when the West Yorkshire Playhouse announced another Irving Berlin musical to share the same winter. White Christmas, however, turned out to be a dream, rather than a nightmare, scenario of unfortunate competition.

Indeed, each theatre has an added an extra week, White Christmas newly extended to January 24 for an even Whiter Christmas and Top Hat long granted more dates to January 11. Welcome to the new West and East Berlin.

Top Hat first took to the stage in 2011, a full 76 years after the release of Mark Sandrich’s RKO motion picture, completing its world premiere tour in Leeds. If ever a show looked destined for the West End, it was director Matthew White and Howard Jacques's stage adaptation of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ third and greatest Hollywood dance musical, not least because it added ten more Berlin numbers to the original soundtrack. Sure enough, Tom Chambers and Summer Strallen took London by storm as the new Fred and Ginger.

In the intervening years, Strictly Come Dancing has further galvanised the renaissance of "proper" dancing, so Top Hat is the perfect top-up for those suffering withdrawal symptoms after last weekend's finale to the latest series.

It could not start on a higher high than the New York tap-and-cane routine for Puttin' On The Ritz, a dashing, crisp ensemble number that introduces the show's latest Jerry Travers, the fleet-footed tap champion Alan Burkitt.

In this boy-meets girl tale, Burkitt's Broadway tap-dancing sensation Travers arrives in London to appear in his first West End show and promptly falls for Charlotte Gooch's irresistible if elusive society girl Dale Tremont.

As you would, he follows her across Europe in an undeniably silly but utterly enjoyable story of mistaken identities, love rivals (Sebastien Torkia's madly Italian couture designer Alberto Beddini), and comic spats between exasperated producer Horace Hardwick (Clive Hayward) and his mercenary, merciless wife Madge (Rebecca Thornhill). All the while, John Conroy steals scenes as Hardwick’s indefatigable valet, Bates.

It is not only the dancing or the familiar Berlin numbers – No Strings, Top Hat, White Tie And Tails, Cheek To Cheek and Let's Face The Music And Dance – that are a joy, but so too is White and Jacques's wonderfully witty adaptation of Dwight Taylor and Allan Scott's screenplay.

The panache and dazzle of this glorious, glamorous American musical comedy is played out against Hildegard Bechtler’s gorgeous art deco set designs for New York, London and Venice, while Jon Morrell’s costume designs will have you wishing you could have lived in the dapper Thirties,especially his divine blue creation for Tremont.

Best of all is Bill Deamer’s choreography: spectacular, breathtaking, wildly energetic and seriously hot in Gooch's Wild About You. All eloquence and elegance, Top Hat is tip-top dance heaven.

Top Hat, Leeds Grand Theatre, until January 11 2015. Box office: 0844 848 2700 or at leedsgrandtheatre.com