AFTER the flock of wee girls at Annie, now comes the march of the teen queens in Angus Thongs & Even More Snogging.

Any more of this, and boys might start to feel they’re being left out (although they did once have Adrian Mole), but then again Annie was the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s biggest ever Christmas hit and Angus Thongs etc is playing to lively, excitable crowds: a wonderful sound in a theatre.

And boys, you could risk coming along, and trying to pick up some tips on how make an impression on the girls, just like Dave The Laugh (the superb Lewis Rainer), Massimo, the Italian lurve god (Leon Scott), and Robbie, the eco-conscious lead singer of the Stiff Dylans and sex god (Edward Green).

As an older, wiser, once shy, never any kind of god, your reviewer can stand back and say he absolutely loved Ryan McBryde’s stage production, which is surely bound for a longer shelf life than this Playhouse premiere.

Already a book (Fab Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson) and a film, Louise Rennison’s tale of 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson (Naomi Peterson), her Ace Gang and her newly acquired boy-entrancing charms has now been transformed into a fizzing, funny play with music, adapted for the stage by Leeds playwright Mark Catley and Rennison herself.

Catley is an inspired choice: his writing has always had wit, energy, economy and a keen eye for social culture, and when bonded with Rennison’s already established teen lingo (with a helpful glossary of words in the programme), it is a winning combination.

Led by Georgia’s narration, the show is fast-moving and engaging straight away, and praise too for the immediate impact of Hannah Clark’s set design with its over-sized recreation of Georgia’s classroom, home and bedroom, with each letter of her name in a box.

Those boxes also serve as a place for lead singers Massimo and Robbie to strut and pose when performing Alex Silverman’s music for the school band, the aforementioned Stiff Dylans.

Everything is filtered through the eyes of Georgia, from rival Wet Lindsay (Mabel Clements) to wild and crazy family cat Angus and demanding young sister Libby, both played by puppets created by Nick Barnes and Mark Down’s esteemed Blind Summit Theatre Company.

Characters such as Georgia’s parents (Margaret Cabourn-Smith and George Potts) are inevitably caricatures, but that is part of the fun for teen and adult audience members alike, who both will recognise the sense of embarrassment teenagers feel when watching their elders – just as the one-minute re-enactment of Romeo And Juliet (or Rom and Jules as Georgia calls it) will amuse all who studied it or performed it in single-sex versions at school.

The biggest hit of all is the pink and perky Snog-o-Meter, with its ten levels of progression up the teenage love ladder, lighting up each time the next base is reached.

Irresistibly good fun, this show is a breathless, fabulous antidote to dour times. Teenagers of all ages will love it.

• Angus Thongs & Even More Snogging, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, until March 3. Box office: 0113 213 7700.