YORK Musical Theatre Company's impeccably tasteful director and musical director Paul Laidlaw has a gift for putting together beautifully balanced revues, but in this case Kander & Ebb have done the job for him.

What's more, unlike Stephen Sondheim's assembly package Side By Side By Sondheim, composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb have written a narrative thread for The World Goes 'Round that travels from young love with a rosy outlook to marriage and babies, to marriages breaking down.

Rodgers and Hammerstein,George and Ira Gershwin and Bacharach and David are better known partnerships, but Kander & Ebb wrote Chicago, Cabaret and Kiss Of The Spiderwoman – let alone New York, New York – and the joy of The World Goes 'Round lies both in seeing their more familiar songs in a new light and discovering others from their canon of bold and brassy musicals.

There is a delightful Kander & Ebb and flow to this show, presented by six of the best from YMTC, Jessa Liversidge, Alexa Chaplin, Matthew Ainsworth, John Haigh, Anna Mitchelson and the rising talent, Florence Taylor, at present studying classical singing at Leeds College of Music.

Directed by Laidlaw from the piano, they perform in black polo necks and matching trousers on a minimalist black-box set with white stools beneath foliage-garlanded lights, a blank canvas to allow them to bring new character to each song, rather than echo Liza Minnelli, for example.

The singing is terrific throughout, so too is the choreography, and the singers thrive whether performing solo, such as Mitchelson's Colored Lights, Chaplin's Ring Them Bells, Liversidge's A Quiet Thing and Haigh's outstanding Mister Cellophane, or the company numbers, from Money to Cabaret, and especially Coffee In A Cardboard Cup with its intricate pattern of passing cups to each other.

Ainsworth's Sara Lee is an amusing confectionery delight, cakes for audience members et al, and Taylor's Maybe This Time makes you want to watch her next time too.

The World Goes 'Round, York Musical Theatre Company, John Cooper Studio, 41 Monkgate, York, tonight at 7.30pm. Box office: 01904 623568 or at thelittleboxoffice.com/ymtc