ALCESTER Amateur Operatic Society is busy preparing for its biggest performance of the year at the town's Greig Centre next month.

Crazy For You is a musical which tells the tale of a boy sent to close down a theatre in a hick American town but who falls in love with a local girl.

Leading man Adam Schumaker plays Bobby, the son of a wealthy woman who wants her son to become a banker, while he hankers after the theatre.

She asks him to close down the theatre but he falls for Polly, played by Sue Bench, who is involved in trying to get the venue up and running again.

Bobby plans to go against his mother's wishes and help the townspeople in their plight but Polly finds out the real reason he came to the town and wants nothing to do with him.

The society's marketing manager Joyce Taylor said: "The show is actually quite complicated but very funny and entertaining.

"Bobby plans to impersonate Mr Zangler, a top theatre entrepreneur who has the power to make the theatre great.

"Polly falls for him, not realising he is Bobby, and later the real Mr Zangler turns up. And that's just part of the story."

The show contains some well-known melodies by George and Ira Gershwin, including Someone to Watch Over Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It and They Can't Take That Away From Me.

Other Gershwin songs include Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm, and But Not For Me (They're Writing Songs of Love.)

Crazy For You is at the Kinwarton Road venue from Wednesday, November 22, until Saturday, November 25, and tickets cost £5.50 for Wednesday and Thursday performances, £6.50 for Friday and Saturday and £4.50 concessions on 01789 763446.