I think that the fad for creating West End musicals around the back catalogue of particular artists has either reached a tipping point or has plunged over a cliff. I don’t know whether it means that it has finally reached rock-bottom and is going to fizzle out, or whether it means that the bar has been set so low that we can expect millions of new productions any minute soon, but a poster I saw this week at Gatwick station made me shudder just a little.

It was for a new musical called Daddy Cool – based on the songs of Boney M, as the poster proudly proclaims. Now I am not a big fan of musical theatre at all, although I have been to quite a few – a result of having girlfriends in the past who did not want to go and see normal plays – but I have noticed the phenomenon of artist-based musicals. There was Mamma Mia! (Abba), We Will Rock You (Queen), something based on Rod Stewart songs.

Not to my taste, but I can see they are all major artists, with large back catalogues of well-known hits to choose from, hits which are still played often and will be for years to come. I know that Boney M shifted a lot of copies of Nightflight to Venus in the 70s, but how many people now could name more than half a dozen of their songs?

It gets better though. The poster also says that it is starring Michelle Collins, Javine (who flopped at Eurovision) and Harvey (whoever he is). Having checked the Daddy Cool website I see that even they could not scrape together enough Boney M songs for a whole show, as it also features “other Frank Farian artists including Milli Vanilli and No Mercy).

Sounds bloody awful to me, but it could attract the School Disco and Guilty Pleasures crowds and become a camp classic.

What next for the London stage though? “Yes Sir I Can Boogie” featuring the songs of Baccara?