Making middle of the road

Opera buffs may sneer at the Three Mo' Tenors' choice of La Donna è Mobile for an opening number but this polished, professional show makes the middle of the road seem, for once, a very pleasant place to spend an hour or so.

At the end of their opener, counter-tenor Kenneth D Alston Junior and tenors Ramone Diggs and Phumzile Sojola slink their way through a syncopated routine like an operatic version of a 1970s soul group dressed in tails instead of flares. Their vast vocal talents are stretched in the service of soul, blues, jazz, r'n'b, spirituals, gospel and show tunes and, in the process, they bust their collective guts to make it enjoyable.

There are moments when the Three Mo’ Tenors could have been beamed straight from the Harlem Apollo. Their versions of Love Train, Hit The Road Jack and My Girl are performed with flamboyant pizzazz and Alston in particular has a voice that gives you shivers.

The show flags with some boring Broadway ballads but otherwise it's non-stop entertainment. And the three of them prove that the only people who should ever don back-to-front baseball hats are operatic tenors moonlighting as hip hoppers.

Until Sun, Assembly @ St George's West (V157), 7pm, £14, £13 concs. www.assemblyrooms.com

Three Mo' Tenors
Assembly @ St George's West (V157), Edinburgh