A young Glusburn actor will have an audience with royalty in Bradford this month.

Christopher Town has won a leading role in a spectacular production of the musical The King and I.

Lees children Darcy and Erin Isa were also given roles in the show following auditions last Sunday.

Christopher, nine, of Bungalow Road, will play the son of an English governess at the Royal Court in Siam. Darcy and Erin, of Massey Fields, will play two of the children of the autocratic King of Siam.

The famous musical features songs such as Shall We Dance?, Getting to Know You and I Whistle a Happy Tune.

West End performer Marti Webb stars in the February 24 - March 15 production at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford.

Christopher, Darcy and Erin were among several pupils from Bradford theatre school Stage 84 who were given roles. Christopher, who attends Sutton Community Primary School, appeared in recent ITV drama A is for Acid. He played the acid bath murderer John George Haigh as a child, while Martin Clunes took the adult role.

Christopher will soon appear on TV in A Touch of Frost and The Royal, and repeat the title role of the stage musical Oliver!

Christopher played one of the royal children three years ago in Stage 84's own production of the King and I.

Darcy and Erin are in Stage 84's next musical Carousel, to be performed in Edinburgh and Bingley.

Erin, four, plays the baby Branwell in the soon-to-be-screened TV docu-drama In Search of the Bronts.

Darcy, who attends Cullingworth Primary School, played an orphan in last year's Stage 84 production Annie, and will soon be on TV in At Home with the Braithwaites.

Tickets for The King and I can be booked at Keighley Information Centre in the town hall, or by phoning 01274 432000.

Don't miss your Keighley News next week. We have two pairs of tickets to be won for the opening night of the King and I