REHEARSALS are getting into full swing for York's day in the Millennium Dome next month.

Eighty teenagers from across the city are working towards a production about York's past, present and future to be performed on the McDonald's Our Town stage in the Dome on October 20.

Colin Jackson, from the City of York Council Performing Arts Service, is leading the rehearsals for the show and has written the final script, but many of the ideas have been developed by teenagers themselves since they began meeting in May.

They were asked to come up with ideas of what Our Town meant to them as young people living in York.

The show, which will involve drama, music and dance, will tell the story of a group of tourists who are being shown round the historic parts of York, and are then taken on an alternative look around York to see what happens in the city today.

The scenes then take in the city centre shops, the Micklegate Run, the Museum Gardens and homelessness on the streets.

Dilly Mitchell and Rosie Pethullis, both 13 and from All Saints' RC School, will be appearing in dance sequences during the show, along with 13-year-olds Emily Taylor, from Archbishop Holgate's School, and Nicola Smith, from Manor CE School.

Nicola said they would be dancing in scenes featuring the Museum Gardens.

All four said their top thing about York was the shops.

Ben Lyon, 11, from Huntington School, said he would be doing break dancing in a nightclub scene, and David Ashdown, 11, from Easingwold School, will be playing clarinet in a shopping scene.

Nick Sanderson, 13, also from Huntington, will be acting in the nightclub.