It’s an apt description of friends Amy and Leanne who sing, dance, gossip, scheme, fall out and make up in this wonderfully warm-hearted new production.
I found myself rooting for them to break free of the drudgery of professional childcare, sharing in their successes and commiserating in their failures.

Alana Ramsey (Amy), Lizzie Stables (Leanne) in Nanny – photo: Folio
We meet the two friends, played by co-writers Alana Ramsey and Lizzie Stables, at a stay and play session in a church while they are looking after two children but spend more time planning their careers in showbiz.

The other co-writer is Jenny Rainsford, also the director of Nanny, who skilfully brings the audience into Amy and Leanne’s world as naughty co-conspirators; parents in the audience laughing at all-too recognisable situations.
Off stage are the children in their care and also Kim, who runs the session and whose foibles we get to know without once seeing or hearing her.

Just off-stage too is pianist Matthew Floyd Jones, whose musical accompaniment provides some uplifting and gloriously funny moments for the duetting funny girls (I’ve stolen that line from the review within the play as well).