COULD you play a dashing, cocky and girl-mad sportsman who is all talk and no action?

Stockton Heath playwright Tim Firth and Take That's Gary Barlow are auditioning for a 17-year-old actor to play a virgin called Tommo in the musical version of Calendar Girls.

Tommo is the son of 'Miss September' so the chosen candidate must also be comfortable around Women's Institute members in states of undress.

The auditions will be held on Thursday, June 18, at The Lowry in Salford Quays where the musical, called The Girls, will premiere between January 13 and 30, 2016.

Candidates must wear sports clothes or school uniform for the audition and will perform in front of the show’s director, Roger Haines, and its producer, David Pugh.

The first auditions will be filmed for Gary and Tim to watch and select actors for a second audition.

Gary and Tim said: "We want a proper northerner to play this role and where better to look than here where there is such an enormous wealth of talent – best of luck lads."

David Pugh, the multi award-winning West End and Broadway producer, whose shows include Equus starring Daniel Radcliffe, added: "This is an incredible opportunity for a young actor to play such a smashing part that Tim and Gary have written in this new musical."

The Girls is inspired by the true story of a group of North Yorkshire women who decide to appear nude for a Women’s Institute calendar in order to raise funds to buy a settee for their hospital, in memory of one of their husbands.

This musical comedy shows how it happened, the effect on husbands, sons and daughters, and how a group of ordinary women achieved something extraordinary.

Former Stockton Heath Primary School pupil Tim and Gary met in Frodsham and have been friends for 25 years.

Tim's mum Kathy still lives in Stockton Heath and even appeared in the Stockton Heath Methodist Drama Society version of Calendar Girls.

Playwright Tim, who went to Cambridge University with Skyfall director Sam Mendes, won the Olivier Award and UK Theatre Award for best new musical and the British Comedy Awards' best comedy film for Calendar Girls.

He followed it up with Kinky Boots and he penned the screenplay for Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring Isla Fisher and The Wedding Video with Peep Show’s Robert Webb.

- Auditions will take place at The Lowry in Salford Quays from 10am to 2pm on Thursday, June 18.

Those interested should email the casting director, Rebecca Jenner, on rebeccajennercasting@gmail.com or telephone on 020 7292 0390 for an audition script and appointment time.

DAVID MORGAN