Back in the day when we were all reckoned to be "New Elizabethans",Noel Streafield's "Ballet Shoes" was serialised in an upmarket children's magazine despite being over 15 years old.
With atmospheric illustrations,you could almost smell the plush and velvet,the rosin and the wooden floors of the ballet school.
Principally aimed at teenage girls who today apparently prefer to send indiscreet photos to their boyfriends rather than dream of being ballerinas,this story of three step - sisters living in genteel poverty in a posh part of London touched a chord in many a boy and girl who was taken to the theatre by kindly relatives and had been seduced by the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the crowd.
This latest incarnation features a cast of TV favourites hamming happily away and letting the young ones have their head.
Particularly notable for me were Miss L.Cohu and Miss E.Atkins but everybody
pulled their weight and gave every appearance of enjoyment.
On the "Drama" channel last night it ensured I went to bed smiling and ever so slightly reassured about human nature.
Review of Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes
(2007 TV Movie)
A good family film.It really should be shown at Christmas.
8 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers