Can they do it again? The annual Wycombe Swan Summer Youth Project last year showed an amazingly high standard of performance. And yes, this year the young people have once again achieved a memorably impressive show.

Following auditions earlier this year, 140 young people aged nine to 21 met up for just two weeks of rehearsals, under the guidance of a hugely dedicated team of creative professionals. The musical Guys and Dolls could have been a challenge, but they carried it off brilliantly.

We find ourselves in a bustling street scene in 1920s New York, and the extended Swan stage is packed with scores of people: gangsters and gamblers, molls and missionaries. Throughout the show, these crowded scenes have been so carefully choreographed that all the milling elements move, dance, run around each other smoothly.

Director Matthew Dye and producer Jamie Sansom chose to add zest to the story by giving it a comic-strip setting. The youngsters take advantage of all this colour to have wonderfully over-the-top movements, with the dozen policemen high-stepping like comic sleuths, the good-time girls zany.

Actors, clever stage set and lighting combine to milk the storyline for all its worth, as gamblers, gangsters and nightclub dancers search for love and a winning throw of the dice.

We start with small-time gamblers arguing over a horse bet, molls parading around, and the band of the Save A Soul Mission marching through, singing and calling sinners to repent. Gambling leader Nathan is planning the next illegal crap game without letting his fiance the dancer Miss Adelaide know, or the cops. Alfie Hall and Bethany Hines are both superb in these roles, amusing yet endearing with fine singing and acting.

Sky (played by Theo Fewell) meanwhile is trying to win his next bet: he gets £1000 if he can take the straightlaced Mission preacher Sarah (Karmela Baumgart) on a trip to Havana. The tumultuous relationship between these two is beautifully performed, and the singing is superb.

Meanwhile the set designers have been hard at work, taking us from street to mission hall, nightclub to a Havana bar, to the sewers of New York.

These 140 young people show huge energy and talent in their dancing and singing, as they come on in troupes of nightclub dancers, molls, Cuban dancers, townspeople, cops and underground network, alongside the gamblers and gangsters.

There was no weak link on opening night on Thursday: the live band, lighting, choreography, scenery and sound teams gave full support to the talent and enthusiasm of the performers.

Well done to them, and to the small team of professionals who inspire a new generation to experience the joy of live performance.