Other Liverpool-themed productions included Haunted Scouse, A Greasy Spoon and Bingo Star.

But Mr Fearon also put the venue’s growing success down to adapting to a changing audience and the introduction of cabaret-style dining.

“There’s 170 seats for dining where people can have a meal and a drink before the show,” Mr Fearon said.

“When the rest of the audience come in later the room has already got a feeling.

“It feels like you’re in a place that’s going to have a good time, that helps theatre, it’s not a cold space.”

He said it had taken 20 years “to get it right” and constant feedback with visitors and asking them what they enjoyed.

“We listen to our audience,” he said.

“Theatres across the country are finding it difficult to get audiences but we are very different to them, we write the work for our audience.

“What makes us all Liverpudlians is that we laugh at ourselves.

“A sense of humour that we have in Liverpool, that what gets us through the day and through our lives.”