Frankenstein

Christmas, they say, comes once a year, but “once” now lasts for days and weeks and months, as Friday’s inflatable Frankenstein’s monster becomes Monday’s inflatable snowman.

Before he learns speech, before he learns cruelty, before he learns the terrible weight of a creator’s indifference, The Creature in “Frankenstein” learns hunger.

“At some point Dr. Frankenstein has to come face-to-face with his monster,” Porges said.

Just look at the anarchic energy of The Spice Girls' Wannabe, or the seven-part pop Frankenstein that was Girls Aloud's Biology and ask yourself, "Could Westlife have pulled that off?"

It also opened a Pandora's Box of controversial scientific and ethical issues - including human cloning, designer babies and "Frankenstein foods".