Andrew Lloyd Webber's Wizard of Oz – in pictures

That's shoe business ... Based on the much-loved 1939 movie, this latest venture from Andrew Lloyd Webber comes with a Dorothy who is also a reality TV star – Danielle Hope, who won the part in the BBC's Over the Rainbow Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features

Here's Hope alongside Edward Baker-Duly (Tin Man), David Ganly (Lion) and Paul Keating (Scarecrow) – joined, of course, by a certain dog. The Mail's critic snarkily remarked that 'the most appealing star of Lord Lloyd Webber's latest telly-marketing musical is not veteran hoofer Michael Crawford or even Danielle Hope. It is Toto the West Highland terrier' Photograph: Donald Cooper/Rex Features

Crawford, who plays Professor Marvel, has been a star of musical theatre for over four decades – perhaps most famous for creating the lead role in a previous Lloyd Webber vehicle, The Phantom of the Opera (not to mention his turn as Frank Spencer in TV's Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em) Photograph: Donald Cooper/Rex Features

Actress Hannah Waddingham, playing the Wicked Witch of the West, takes a bow. The arrival of the new show means that the West End now plays host to two separate musicals based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel (the other is Wicked, which has run at the Apollo since 2006) Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

As well as benefiting from huge amounts of BBC advance publicity, the new musical is choreographed by Arlene Phillips and directed by Jeremy Sams, who brought another hit movie, The Sound of Music, successfully to the West End in 2006 Photograph: Alastair Muir/Rex Features

Lloyd Webber, flanked by his lead actors, takes a bow during the curtain call. (It's unclear whether he got to keep the dog) Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

Follow, follow ... Hope and her fellow stars headed straight off to a glitzy bash following press night. That yellow-brick-road theme is starting to seem a bit worn, isn't it? Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

Reviews so far have been mixed: our own Michael Billington gave it a could-do-better three stars, but the Independent's Paul Taylor reached the giddy heights of four stars – while, of course, reserving real praise for Toto. The Telegraph's man merely commented that 'I did at least manage to sit through it without throwing up in the aisle'
Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA