Like some kind of pirhouetting, female, mousey prodigal son, kids’ favourite Angelina Ballerina returns to New Wimbledon Theatre for two nights, having had her smash hit show debut in Wimbledon a year ago.

And what a ride it has been since then. Angelina comes back having performed at the Royal Albert Hall, the London Coliseum, the Palace of Versailles and Wembley Stadium.

The show in question is Angelina’s Star Performance, in which Angelina has been given the honour of putting on her very own performance of The Sleeping Beauty for the Queen in her splendid palace. She even has a real-life princess to star alongside her in the show. It’s Angelina’s biggest challenge yet - will she manage to pull it off?

It is an enchanting introduction to ballet for children and features not only eleven National Ballet dancers, but music from The Sleeping Beauty and some wonderfully imaginative sets and costumes.

Russ Marquis is the company director behind Angelina’s Star Performance, and he speaks about its unqualified success since it launched at WImbledon last September. He says: “It was worked out that this show has been seen by more than 162,000 people since it was at Wimbledon almost exactly a year ago, which is just incredible especially when you break that down - it becomes ‘you could fill Wembley Stadium twice with that amount of people’ and so on.

“So it was imperative to go back to the theatres where it had been first time around, especially Wimbledon because that is where it was born if you like. The signs were there from the moment it began at Wimbledon, not just in the standard of performance but the reaction we were getting from the audience, it was very exciting.

”It wasn’t just the children who were sayign how magical it was, it was a lot of the parents too, so we must have been hitting the right notes. In the last year it has evolved, the changes are subtle but they are there, the performers are of course more confident in their characters and in involving the audience now.”

Helen Craig and Katharine Holabird were the brains behind the Angelina Ballerina character and books, and Russ adds that the show had their full blessing: “They were very involved in the design stage and the whole idea of it but they had no idea what it would look like until it was ready.

“They were delighted, and it was really moving moment when they saw the illustrations become life-size on the set and to meet the characters they have been writing about for so many years.”

Angelina Ballerina; New Wimbledon Theatre, The Broadway, SW19 1QG; Mon/Tue September 1/2, 11am, 2pm and 5pm, adults £21/£19, kids £11/£10, call 0870 060 6646 or visit theambassadors.com/newwimbledon for booking.