Cover yourself in glory '“ step forward for role in new show

Glorious! is on in Harrogate later this year

Harrogate Dramatic Society is never satisfied, it seems, as it prepares for its next production later this year.

Not only are their scouts always on the look-out for competent actors. They also now want to find competent musicians. Or one competent actor who is also an accomplished musician.

The society will be staging the hilarious play by Peter Quilter Glorious! in June.

It tells the extraordinary but true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, who earned the dubious title of the world’s worst singer .

The play premiered in the West End in 2005 with Maureen Lipman in the lead role, to be followed by a cinema feature film version starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant in 2016.

The predicament for the aociety is that while they have an abundance of actors to fill the various parts, what they do not have is an actor who can play the piano as her accompanist.

When Florence Foster Jenkins warbles her way through Adele’s Laughing Song by Johann Strauss or Mozart’s aria Queen of the Night’s Vengeance, the pianist/actor must stay faithful to the score even if the singer cannot.