Kawaii! The five performers who make up Tokyo Tap Do! are super likeable and talented tap dancers (with their own theme song and matching choreography: let’s go!). The Japanese tappers turn their stage into a playground of silly but standard circus stunts (see baton twirling and hoopla) and commendable tap comedy. Cute and catchy, you’ll be doing their little Sushi Tap dance and humming their theme song for the next few days.

Some of Sushi Tap’s skits are most certainly funnier than others. Time is wasted on their intro (an audience participation-based rendition of ‘We Will Rock You’) and the scenes with no tap (it’s the Sushi Tap Show!) lag far behind their more amusing dance-based material. One stand-out segment is a silent movie-style rendition of Mozart’s ‘Turkish March’ where they’re all desperate for the toilet. The group are at their finest when mixing comedy with tap, rather than separating the two elements and relying on props for laughs.

That said, their audience thoroughly enjoys participating in some call-out Japanese language learning and singalongs. The mixed-age group’s cartoonish expressions and colourful costumes add to the show’s unseriousness, and lend it a wholesome family feel. While not landing every single stunt (it’s OK, we were rooting for you!), the Sushi Tap team are impossible to dislike. While they could lose some of their gimmicky elements and add in more straight-up dance, the talent of these Tokyo tappers is undeniable. 

Tokyo Tap Do!: Sushi Tap Show, Greenside @ George Street, until 24 August, 5.20pm.