Attending the premiere of the incomprehensibly returning RENT - or as Forbidden Broadway would have it RANT - to the West End, Kylie Minogue appears to be resembling Nancy Sinatra these days.

Always nice of see someone being - ahem - homaged other than Madonna.

This is now the third production of Jonathan Larson's RENT to play the West End. I saw the first production - the original is still running on Broadway after 11 years - and to this day I cannot see what the fuss is all about. I saw a show that needed a serious re-write and half the score ditched or amalgamated. Yes there are a few good songs in there but oh my God that book! I defy anyone to be able to work out the individual plot lines in the second act. And for all it's vaunted hard-hitting AIDS storyline... of course it's the gay character that dies while the Mimi character gets to death's door - to remarkably bounce back to life again for a final curtain clinch. Of course the death of Larson on the eve of it's off-Broadway production resulted in the show with all it's faults being frozen.

So despite the last two productions and the film version tanking over here, it's back again. God help us.