IF you saw the Chuckle Brothers’ Cinderella show in Hull in 2006, you will see it again this Christmas.

Not entirely the same, obviously, but the veteran Rotherham duo of Barry and Paul Elliott nevertheless reprise their best routines from that record-breaking run for the next generation of Chucklevision fans.

After 45 years of extra-cheesy panto antics, they know exactly what works for them, and so their good-natured Yorkshire slapstick is grafted on to the familiar Cinderella storyline in a boisterous, glossy commercial panto that gallops along at a pace between double-act setpieces.

Barry, the shorter and dafter brother with the spikier hair, plays Buttons to Paul’s Zip, the almost sensible one, whose role is to keep the errant sibling in check, in the tradition of Oliver Hardy struggling to control Stan Laurel.

Their to-me-to-you brand of physical comedy appeals to both children and the child in the adult who hankers after the playtime innocence of yesteryear.

This monkey business is allied to bantering, occasionally bickering dialogue constructed principally around misunderstanding between the brothers, supported by naughtiness that is cleaner than double entendres but cheeky all the same.

Working once more with producer/writer Jon Conway and director/choreographer Alan Harding, Barry and Paul are the piston of a slick, well-grooved panto machine that oozes confidence in every aspect, from ensemble dancing to Iain Vince-Gatt’s polished musical direction.

Barry and Paul provide the personality and all the big laughs in the show, principally from routines that range from the hat and the disappearing banana to the sword box with the dangling cucumber.

As last time, the loudest screams and cheers greet the stripping setpiece where Mr Muscle-skinny Barry, by now dressed up as a poodle-perm rock singer, mistakenly thinks every instruction from Paul is meant for him. Behind his sightline, Paul is working with Cinderella (Emma Dearden) on potential alterations to her ball gown.

The Chuckle duo are the only “names” in the cast, the other roles going mainly to blossoming young talents such as the Dearden’s strong-singing Cinders and Dom Hodson’s Prince Charming and Duncan Leighton’s Dandini (parts increasingly played by handsome young men rather than fine fillies these days).

Nathan Kiley, from Boroughbridge, is joined by professional stage debutant Andrew Dyer in a young and surely the tallest Ugly Sisters partnership on the panto circuit. Giving them such a noisy, excitable launching pad is one heck of a challenge but they relish it. Baron Hardup, meanwhile, is so hard up he is absent.

Not even Fairy Godmother Nicky Adams can magic him up, but she orchestrates a beautiful transformation scene, the wow-factor moment to complement all the merry Chuckling.

The Chuckle Brothers in Cinderella, Hull New Theatre, until January 8. Box office: 01482 300300 or hullcc.gov.uk/hullnewtheatre