BBC Newcastle is celebrating 30 years of the Tyne and Wear Metro by creating a musical.
The Tyne and Wear Metro - the Musical project has taken six months to complete, from auditioning the best local talent to filming Rapper Sword Dancers dancing inside a metro train.
Filming has taken place across Tyneside and Wearside starring local people.
The video premiered on BBC One's Look North at 18:30 on Thursday 24 March.
See our pictures of the filming of the Tyne and Wear Metro - The Musical here:
A brass band performing in a scrap yard, you don't see that everyday!
Open auditions took place in December 2010 for singers and performers to impress the director Benjamin Till.
Benjamin, who composed and directed the musical, created the lyrics from people's stories that were sent to us about the Tyne and Wear Metro.
The song was then recorded at The Sage Gateshead and the planning for the video began.
Filming took place at Metro stations all across Tyneside and Wearside, a scrap yard and a ferry with local singers and actors being the stars of the show.
Scenes were filmed in places where the public are not allowed
Tyne and Wear Metro - The Musical will be shown in various locations across the north-east of England on Saturday 26 March, 2011, between about 10am and 4pm.
Eldon Square
Gateshead library
John Lewis department store, Newcastle
Haymarket Metro station
Metro Centre
Newcastle library
Sunderland library
Tyneside Cinema
The musical will be shown repeatedly at each location so you won't miss the start time and you don't need a ticket.
Let us know where you see the musical, e-mail: tyne@bbc.co.uk
There is also a DVD of the musical available for £10, £5 of which will go towards Children In Need.
BBC Look North reported from the first overnight shoot in Gateshead for the musical:
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