A hilarious award-winning musical comedy will be staged for two weeks in the West Country this summer.

Weston Mercury: Lesley Joseph.Lesley Joseph. (Image: Sub)

The Mercury is offering readers the chance to win tickets to see Calendar Girls - The Musical at the Bristol Hippodrome next month.

Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's Calendar Girls is inspired by the true story of a group of ladies who decide to appear nude for a WI calendar in a bid to raise cash to buy a settee for their local hospital, in memory of one of their husbands.

The musical comedy shows life in a Yorkshire village, how it happened, the effect on husbands, sons and daughters and how a group of ordinary ladies achieved something extraordinary.

The WI the story is based on has, to date, raised £5million for Bloodwise - a specialist UK blood cancer charity.

Weston Mercury: Cast of Calendar Girls - The Musical. Picture: Alastair MuirCast of Calendar Girls - The Musical. Picture: Alastair Muir (Image: ©ALASTAIR MUIRCONTACT alastair@alastairmuir.com)

Lesley Joseph will join the cast at the Bristol Hippodrome as Jessie.

While she is best known for playing Dorien Green in the ITV sitcom Birds Of A Feather, Lesley has also appeared in Young Frankenstein, Annie and Night And Day.

She joins Hollyoaks' Sarah Jane Buckley, Years And Years' Sue Devaney and Loose Women panellist Lisa Maxwell.

Calendar Girls will be at the Bristol Hippodrome, in St Augustines Parade, from July 9-20 at 7.30pm each night.

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There will be additional performances on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2.30pm.

Tickets, starting at £13, are available at www.atgtickets.com/shows/calendar-girls-the-musical

The Mercury has once again teamed up with the Hippodrome to offer one lucky reader a pair of tickets to see the performance on July 9.