Following the success of last year's Legally Blonde and The Addams Family, TOPS on Stage are to bring their next musical production, Betty Blue Eyes, to the Thameside Theatre next month.

Given Thurrock Council's plans to close the theatre, this could well be the last time TOPs appear at the Thameside.

The show will run from Thursday, 16 March to Saturday 18 March - when there will also be a matinee.

If demand is high enough there may be a fourth evening performance arranged for Wednesday, 15 March.

Adapted from the comedy film 'A Private Function', Betty Blue Eyes is an utterly British musical, full of eccentric characters, such as the strange odd couple, Gilbert – an evangelistic chiropodist, and Joyce – a nobody determined to be somebody; Inspector Wormold - an obsessive destroyer of illegal meat; Mother Dear – 'She's seventy four and ravenous'; along with a weird assortment of bullies, spivs and snobs and of course, our star, Betty the pig.

Betty Blue Eyes is set in 1947. Belts are being tightened, and government is telling the country there'll be fair shares for all if they survive Austerity Britain. Meanwhile, local officials feather their own nests by taking more than their fair share. 

Having won the war, Britain seems to be losing the peace: the country is staggering under rationing, unemployment, and the coldest winter for decades. 

The only bright spark on the horizon is the impending Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.'

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You can book tickets for the show via this link.