Former Bront Middle School student Amy Williams hits the stage next week to help celebrate an international music and theatre festival.

Amy, 12, of Brook Row, Oakworth, has been invited to star in Fiddler on the Roof on Monday at Buxton Opera House which will form part of the second International Festival of Musical Theatre.

She will play the part of Shprintze - daughter of Tevye - in the famous tale of the clash of modern and traditional attitudes over arranged marriages. Amy will sing, dance and act in the performance which will be one of 14 productions to be judged over the next two weeks.

Her firefighter father Aidan will star alongside her as Mordcha the innkeeper.

The pair received their invites after doing the production with Horsforth Grove Amateurs at Yeadon Town Hall earlier this summer.

Amy says: "I'm really excited about it because it will be my first major production and I'm very honoured to take part in it. But it will also be quite scary because the adjudicator will be talking to us straight after the performance about how well we did. The character I play is a typical child. She just wants to have fun and doesn't really understand what's happening around her."

A keen member of Sutton Amateur Dramatics, Amy's next appearance will be as the good fairy in the group's winter pantomime Goldilocks and the Three Bears. She has also made a frequent appearance in school productions as well as being a runner-up in Bront's Young Musician of the Year contest this year for her singing ability.

In addition to singing, Amy can play the guitar and the piano.

Mum Sheila says: "Amy could sing before she talked."

In September, she will start at the Leeds-based performing arts school - Intake High School, Bramley. According to Amy, former pupils include Mel B from the Spice Girls.

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