TWO students from the North-East were picked from an international line-up for a stage musical.

Sarah Warbey, 15, from Darlington, and Tegan Ellershaw, 12, from Ingleby Barwick, Stockton, were among 70 students performing Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Epsom Playhouse, in Surrey.

Performers were selected from Stagecoach theatre schools in the UK, Ireland, the US, Germany and Malta.

Sarah, a pupil at Darlington's Hummersknott School and Language College, said: "I was thrilled to be chosen."

Tegan, from Conyers Comprehensive School, in Yarm, said: "It taught me how much hard work is involved in being a performer."