MALVERN Theatres will be the showcase for a dazzling night of music, song and dance on Sunday, June 13.

An Enchanted Evening! brings together the talents of several amateur groups to raise money for charity.

Organisers hope the show will be as successful as its predecessors, Millennium Mosaic and Jubilee!, which played to packed houses and raised substantial amounts of cash.

Profits from An Enchanted Evening! will be divided between the RNLI and the Theatre House Project. The RNLI was chosen in memory of John Pitt, who died recently. John, an RNLI supporter, was a stalwart member of Malvern Light Opera Society, who appeared in innumerable productions.

The Theatre House Project supports the renovation of Malvern Theatre Players' Grange Road headquarters. The scheme, to provide a community theatre space, is well advanced but money is still needed to provide improved toilets, facilities for the disabled and fire alarms.

An Enchanted Evening! will involve more than 140 performers from all the major community and amateur users of Malvern Theatres.

Midlands Musical Theatres Group will perform hit songs from stage and screen in Musicality. Malvern Theatre Players will present two short comedy pieces, Last Things by Peter Barnes and Food for Thought by Peter Cook. Worcester Gilbert and Sullivan Society will perform extracts from their recent production of The Mikado. Selected numbers from Jesus Christ Superstar will be staged by Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society. Malvern Opera will perform Act II of Puccini's Tosca. The show will close with Malvern Light Opera Society singing a medley of songs loved by John Pitt.

Chris Bassett, chairman of Malvern Theatre Players, said: "It'll be great and the fact that it's supported by and partly for the benefit of the RNLI is excellent."