MENOPAUSE The Musical will "celebrate women and 'The Change' in an all-singing, all-dancing comedy with an all-star cast" at the Grand Opera House, York, tomorrow night.

After British and Irish tours in 2008 and 2010, Jeanie Linders' show is back on the road from April 12, visiting 41 venues with its story of four women shopping for lingerie at a department store sale, who on first appearance have nothing in common.

However, a black lace bra soon stimulates comical heart-to-hearts on hot flushes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex and plastic surgery.

A sisterhood is created between these diverse women as they realise that the menopause is no longer "The Silent Passage", but a stage in every woman’s life that is perfectly normal.

Menopause The Musical is "armed with a cast of hormonal women, one-liners and innuendo-laden parodies of 25 pop classics" from the baby boomer era, such as Stayin' Awake, Puff, My God I'm Draggin' and My Thighs (aka My Guy).

The company brings together Cheryl Fergison, late of EastEnders; Linda Nolan, of The Nolans; Rebecca Wheatley, from BBC1's Casualty, and Ruth Berkeley, off The Al Murray Show.

Londoner Cheryl is best known for her soap-opera days as EastEnders’ George Michael super-fan, Heather Trott, who met a grisly end at the hands of Ben Mitchell in 2012. She can play no fewer than ten musical instruments, incidentally.

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Linda Nolan, Rebecca Wheatley and Cheryl Fergison: "comical heart-to-hearts on hot flushes, night sweats, memory loss, sex and chocolate binges"

Linda has not only performed through the years with her sisters but also appeared on stage with Lily Savage in Prisoner Cell Block H and Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer in Shooting Stars and played Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell's musical, Blood Brothers, both on tour and in the West End.

Among her television appearances have been Loose Women, The Weakest Link, Come Dine With Me and the latest series of Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother.

Rebecca, formerly the dowdy receptionist Amy Howard in Casualty, lost 12 stone en route to winning Slimming World's Slimmer of the Year in 2009, going on to play Barbara in the one-woman West End show Big Pants And Botox before taking up the axe as Annie Wilkes in Stephen King’s Misery.

She has "survived pantomime" with Paul O’Grady’s Lily Savage at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London, and her television parts have varied from a porn movie producer to a bisexual nymphomaniac and a buxom barmaid. She can be spotted on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff and ITV’s Loose Women too.

Irish actress and singer Ruth has played Miss Dismore in Singin; in the Rain, Onna Crow in Terrence McNally's A Man Of No Importance and Lisa in Mamma Mia!.

Menopause The Musical made its bow on March 28 2001 in Orlando, Florida, in a 76-seat theatre that once housed a perfume shop and since been seen by almost 11 million people, almost all of them women.

In the United States, it has played Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver and its present home at Harrah's in Las Vegas; international productions have been mounted in Australia, Canada, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa and South Korea, as well as Britain.

Tickets for tomorrow's 7.30pm show cost £24 upwards on 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york