CRADLEY Heath Amateur Operatic Society (CHAOS) is set to bring musical masterpiece Evita to the Stourbridge stage for the very first time.

The multi-award-winning society will be staging the ambitious Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber hit show, featuring much-loved musical numbers including Don't Cry For Me Argentina, at Stourbridge Town Hall from Tuesday November 12 to Saturday November 16.

Liz Compton takes on the iconic role of Eva Peron who rises from poor illegitimate child to ambitious actress to the most powerful woman in Latin America as the wife of military leader-turned-president Juan Peron.

The events in Evita's life, from 1934 to 1952, are presented in song and commented on by the show's narrator Che (played by Paul Gardner who recently moved to the Black Country from Nottingham where he has performed in shows such as Me and My Girl and Anything Goes).

While seasoned Black Country stage star and producer Chris Psaras takes on the role of Juan Peron, with Steve Humpherson tasked with stage directing duties, Chris Handley as musical director and Richard Lathbury-Howell, who has appeared in a professional tour of Evita, as the show's choreographer.

A spokesman for the society, the longest-running amateur operatic society in the Black Country having formed in 1908, said: "We are enormously excited to be able to bring this show to the stage of Stourbridge Town Hall for the first time ever, continuing the vast history of musical theatre in the Black Country."

Evening shows start at 7.30pm and there will be a Saturday matinee starting at 2.30pm.

Tickets cost £15 (opening night and Saturday matinee) and £17 (Wednesday to Saturday evenings) and can be booked by calling the box office on 0121 585 7380.