Would-be West end star Izzy Lane is heading for her name in lights.

The 17-year-old singing sensation from Stert, near Devizes, is just one song away from the fast track to fame.

Izzy has beaten hundreds of rivals from all over Britain to win a place in the final of the prestigious West End Calling competition, the nationwide musical theatre contest staged to discover the stars of tomorrow.

Her success ended a long wait for opportunity to knock because although Izzy reached the quarter finals of the competition last year, then along came Lockdown and all the theatres were closed and the contest was put on hold.

But on Halloween Izzy, a student at Devizes School, was back on the stage and she wowed the judges at the semi-finals in Battersea’s Turbine Theatre with her powerful performance of You Don’t Know This Man from the musical Parade.

Now, on December 12th, at the Charing Cross Theatre in London’s West End, Izzy will compete against 11 other young top talents vying to win West End Calling.

The final of the competition is always a must for talent scouts, casting directors, agents and managers looking to spot, and sign up, those who have that special something that will put them in the bigtime.

It will be another agonising wait for Izzy on the day as she has to go through four and a half hours of rehearsal, dress rehearsal and watching the junior finals of the competition before she and the other senior contenders get the chance to give their all.

But knowing, that with one song left to sing, she will stand just three minutes from fame, Izzy isn’t daunted.

“I still get a little nervous but I believe that that helps me perform to the best of my abilities,” said Izzy, who will be singing a number from Cabaret, but has yet to decide which song.

Izzy, who is currently studying for four A-levels and aims to go on afterwards to a performing arts university, is also still working for her charity Evie’s Gift, which she supports to honour her friend Evie Clover, who tragically died in 2018 of brain cancer when she was just 13. During Lockdown Izzy single-handedly raised £5,000 for the charity by staging a sponsored online music marathon.