If you know your Og-pog from your Uff-uff and can spot the difference between a ninky nonk and a pinky ponk, then In The Night Garden Live is just the show for you.
For anyone without pre-school aged children in the lives, the hit BBC children’s show is just a combination of letters arranged in a random order that doesn’t even remotely make sense.
But for young children it is a magical world that captivates them like nowhere else.
My two-year-old daughter, Eva, is one such child. Her eyes light up at the opening bars of the theme music before grabbing the nearest hand to her and making circle patterns with her finger in the palm, imitating the opening scene of the television show.
And, unlike her older brothers at her age, she loves the lifesize characters that seem to reduce others to quivering wrecks.
So it was with great optimisim that we took her to In The Night Garden Live at Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham. She, like every other child in the audience, loved it.
The theatre is a specially constructed showdome, fully undercover, and creates a planetarium-style presentation on the roof to add to the action on the stage.
The stage show faithfully follows the formula of the show and the way it takes the audience on their journey to the Night Garden is brilliantly done.
All the favourite characters are there - Iggle Piggle, Upsey Daisy, Makka Pakka and friends - all welcomed on to the stage with squeals of delight from the children and applause from the adults.
The stars of the show are as much the puppeteers as the full-size characters. Each character mixes between a life-size version and a puppet, depending on the proportions required. The puppeteers are superb and bring as much, if not more, life to their character.
The show is just the right length at 50 minutes and only a handful of children seemed to lose attention, which is no small feat with the majority of the audience under the age of three.
Our two-year-old loved it and was capitvated throughout, although a little overwhelmed at the beginning she soon lost any nervousness and was clapping along to the familiar songs.
The magic of the show crosses the generations, for the children it is being transported to a fantasy world and for the parents and grandparents it is the joy of watching your child react and interact with a brilliantly produced show.
In The Night Garden Live runs at Cannon Hill Park until August 8, before moving to The Trafford Centre in Birmingham from August 15 to September 1.
For ticket details, visit the In The Night Garden Live website.