SO now we have a generation of tots and parents who know that the sing-song "Ooh, la, la, la, la..." is followed by "Mister Maker".

A small but enthusiastic opening afternoon audience greeted CBeebies stalwart Phil Gallagher, who has turned Mister Maker into a worldwide TV asset over the past ten years – which presumably makes him vulnerable under the "BBC should make fewer popular programmes" creeping initiative.

Gallagher, who is second only to Mr Tumble in the garish spotty waistcoat department, is a master of manoeuvring today's social media trends and positively insisted that parents pulled out their phones to snap away at events on stage, or family members joining in with the fun, and forward them on to the Mister Maker website.

While I'm pretty sure Tony Hart, from the TV land that time forgot, wouldn't fully approve of Mister Maker's artistic prowess, there is no shortage of volunteers heading for the stage to take part in games. The important part of both Vision On and Mr M being that we adults much prefer to see youngsters encouraged to take on paper, paint and plenty of "gloopy glue" rather than tamely reaching for latest tame tablet colouring-in exercise.

An interval massive paper-scrunching exercise for the audience, just before the interval, allows one of the show's popular Minute-Maker challenges, which created the introduction of The Shapes.

My four-year-old granddaughter was desperate for the arrival of Circles, Triangle, Square and Rectangle and danced about frenetically at what appeared, to older ears, to be an updated version of the Hokey Cokey. If this is theatre of the future, stick my name down.

Review by Viv Hardwick