DAVID Reeves and Eileen Taylor are playing the lead roles in St Catherine's AMS production of Waltzes From Vienna at St George's Church, Farnworth, from March 17 to 19.

With music by Johann Strauss senior and junior, this adaptation by Phil Park and Ronald Hamner tells the story of the tension between Strauss the elder and Strauss the younger, engendered by the son's ambitions to succeed his father as the Waltz King of Vienna.

The show is delightfully woven around a score that is a collection of some of the greatest light music ever composed. It tells of the star-crossed romance between young Johann and the attractive daughter of an engagingly eccentric pastry-cook, and involves a helpfully intriguing Countess and other endearing characters.