Little Seeds Music is a relatively new company, founded in 2020 with a digital piece that made waves during lockdown. The polish, expertise and range of talents on display from the cast of two, however (one of whom, David Gibb, also wrote the script and composed the music), would have you believing both were West End veterans.

Cinderella Ice Cream Seller is a simple reworking of the Cinders fairytale, which sees the heroine eschewing the romance of marrying Prince Charming to follow her dreams creating strange and wonderful ice-creams. Framing this is a story set in one of Cinderella’s ice-cream parlour branches some years later, where employee Talvi (Lauren Harthorpe) has big ambitions to follow in the founder’s footsteps and create wacky recipes of her own. The only thing standing in her way is jobsworth rule-stickler Caldwell (Gibb).

Harthorpe and Gibb give top-notch performances, slipping silkily between multiple roles, belting out power numbers as deftly as they conjure up caricature villains. The script meanwhile has a Roald Dahl feel to it, garish and vivid in its characters, dastardly in its comic mischief. Talvi’s recipes may be experimental but this show has all the ingredients for a perfectly scrumptious scoop of children’s theatre.

Cinderella Ice Cream Seller: A Musical, Underbelly Bristo Square, until 17 August, 11.40am; main picture: Andrew Walmsley.