FORMER professional actress Lesley Windsor is taking a trip down memory lane when she takes the lead role of Alaura Kingsley in the latest Trowbridge Amateur Operatic production of City of Angels.

Ms Windsor is taking to the stage in the musical comedy in which she last performed in over two decades ago in the West End.

Set in glamorous Hollywood in the 1940s the show follows the misadventures of Stine, a young novelist, attempting to write a screenplay for a movie.

The musical weaved together two plots, the real world of a writer trying to turn his books in a screenplay, and the reel world of the fictional film.

Ms Windsor, in her role as a professional actress, understudied for the lead when it was in the West End taking the part of an Angel City Four, Now living in Hilperton she jumped at the chance to take the lead this time around in the local Operatic’s production.

She said: “When I realised the Trowbridge Amateur Operatic Society were putting on the production of the musical that I was once involved in I was very keen to finally play the role of Alaura.”

The musical has two stories occurring simultaneously; a Hollywood comedy and a detective drama. The real-life scenes are in colour and the movie scenes in black and white.

With 21 musical numbers and clever theatrical lighting this little known production could become a favourite with musical theatre lovers.

Visitors to Trowbridge Park early on Sunday morning could have also thought they were stepping back in time. The operatic group had centred their publicity pictures at the Albany Palace and the town’s park in preparation for the musical.

The show is at 7.30pm at the Arc Theatre at Wiltshire College from Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 November. Tickets are £11 and £10 from the Arc box office on 01225 756373 or at www.arctheatre.org.uk.