With the search for this year's Eurovision contender now sorted, even the world of theatre is turning its attentions to the phenomenon that is the great annual song contest.

Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision, a glorious and interactive celebration of the event that unites and divides Europe in equal measure, will be hitting the road and arriving at The Mayflower Theatre in Southampton this summer.

The show stars Les Dennis and former Coronation Street actress Sally Lindsay. They play children's TV presenter Sergei and Olympic pole-vaulting champion and cabaret performer Boyka: a perma-grinning pair of second-rate celebrities who are hosting the competition from a sunny, safe and secure Sarajevo.

Eurobeat, which plays the Mayflower from August 11 to 16, taps right into the fact that with worldwide TV audiences of 150 million, Eurovision is everyone's secret guilty pleasure.

This spoof show offers audiences the chance at last to leap out of the closet and gives the UK a genuine opportunity to win Europe's greatest cultural collaboration one more time. And even the face of Eurovision, Terry Wogan, will be there to whip the crowd into a frenzy. Well, he'll be on screen, anyway.

The Eurobeat audience members are each allocated to one of the 10 competing countries as they enter the theatre and then get to vote for their favourite contestants via text message.

Eurobeat has been hailed as the first interactive musical, and because every performance can have a different winner both the audience and performers are kept in suspense.

Do the cast get competitive? Of course they do! And remember, as with Eurovision you cannot vote for your own country but there is nothing to stop you from bribing others to!