KEIGHLEY actress Laura Judge will play a lead role in the classic musical Gypsy for Ilkley Amateurs next year.

Laura, who regularly appears with Keighley Playhouse, will perform opposite her real-life daughter Chloe, who is playing her stage daughter June.

Laura is also a professional actress who has appeared in Emmerdale, Spooks: Code 9, Diamond Geezer, Heartbeat and Blue Murder.

She is a director of theatre-in-education company Double Take and runs improvisation and storytelling workshops.

Mark Allan, who has appeared in Keighley Amateurs pantomimes and musicals, is directing Gypsy, which will be staged at King’s Hall in Ilkley from March 8 to 11.

Gypsy is a 1959 musical based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother Rose.

It follows the ultimate showbusiness mother’s efforts to raise two daughters to become stage stars.

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