KID Creole thought the "Seventies thing would die in a year when we started Oh! What A Night seven years ago, but that decade just won't die".

In the role of the Seventies' funkiest DJ and club owner Brutus T Firefly, the Eighties' chart star has clocked up 1,500 performances in his trademark zoot suits and cocked hats, leading an exuberant celebration of big hair, big flares and 36 of the biggest disco hits.

Kid Creole has returned to the cast for the latest tour, which began in Birmingham last September, and now brings Kim Gavin's sexy and sizzling production to York for the first time for a week-long run at the Grand Opera House. Last night's raucous crowd will no doubt spread the word: what a night they had at Oh! What A Night.

From the opening pulse of Isaac Hayes's mood-setting Shaft, it is apparent that musical director Chris Taylor's five-piece band is as tight as a corset and twice as uplifting. The all-singing, all-dancing cast of 17 instantly establishes that, for this night at least, the long hot summer of disco rules.

Kid Creole arrives in red, cool and dapper, as he sets the scene in the Inferno nightclub in New York City, where he runs the joint with bad-ass barman Jack Vettriano (Dylan Turner), camp-as-Butlins style arbiter Stretch Mulligan (Neal Wright) and big dude Marvin (Michael Samuels).

In a plot as flimsy as a Geoff Hoon excuse, Jack is trying to con Brutus into handing over ownership of The Inferno, while all the club regulars are in a whirl over Hollywood casting director Roxie Rochelle (A Taste Of Honey vocalist Hazel Payne) being in town to cast a new dance movie.

The "story" serves the songs, and the cast serves those songs with giddying energy and tongue-in-cheek humour, revelling in Kim Gavin's sassy surging choreography. Lucy Miller's cat-suited Cat scores an early knock-out with Lady Marmalade; Payne makes you want to join her on that Midnight Train To Georgia, and the whole company gives Village People a run for its pink pound in the fantastically over-the-top first half finale of YMCA, led by Wright's scene-stealing pocket dynamo.

The second half brings Kid Creole to the fore, particularly for a seriously funky Play That Funky Music. Payne excels too, reprising her old hit Boogie Oogie Oogie and playing the gay-anthem drama queen for the inevitable encore of I Will Survive.

By now a strutting panther in pink, Kid Creole climbs aboard the Love Train at the close, and you really should purchase a ticket to join him.

Oh! What A Night, Grand Opera House, York, until Saturday. Box office: 0870 606b3595.

Updated: 10:03 Tuesday, February 10, 2004