THE CITY Varieties Youth Theatre will present modern musical Loserville at the Leeds theatre on July 28 and 29.

The show, which follows last year’s successful Addams Family, will be the company’s sixth full-scale musical.

A 40-strong cast, plus live pit band, aims to have audiences reaching for their air guitars and ‘rocking-out’ to an electric pop-rock score worthy of the Seventies.

Loserville was originally created by Elliot Davies and James Bourne for Youth Music Theatre UK, and is loosely based on the album Welcome to Loserville from Bourne’s band Son of Dork.

It tells the tale of misfit computer geek, Michael Dork, and his sci-fi obsessed, social-misfit friends, who in 1971 are all set to change the course of history, fashion and dating.

Michael’s also discovered a girl, Holly, a prospect (almost) as exciting as his love of computers. If only he had the courage to talk to her!

CVYT artistic director Lizi Patch said: “Each year the challenge is to find a musical that both suits the large and very capable cast, and that will work on the beautiful but bijou City Varieties stage.

“From the initial idea to the first performance, the cast, creative team, learning team, band and technical crew make my job a pleasure.”

Founded in 2012, CVYT have given a modern twist to musicals like Oliver! Return to the Forbidden Planet and Peter Pan - the British Musical.

Visit cityvarietiesmusichall.co.uk or call 0113 2430808 to book tickets.