JODIE Prenger, winner of the BBC's I’d Do Anything search for a star, will appear in the solo show Tell Me On A Sunday at the Grand Opera House, York, tomorrow and Scarborough Spa next Friday.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s musical charts the romantic misadventures of Emma, a young English girl from Muswell Hill who journeys to United States in the heady days of the 1980s.

Brimming with optimism, she seeks success and love but as she weaves her way through the maze of New York City and her own anxieties, frustrations and heartaches, she wonders whether she has been looking for love in all the wrong places.

Originally conceived for television, the show takes the form of a one-act song cycle whose original score features the chart-topping Take That Look Off Your Face and the title track. Performed previously by such musical theatre stars as Marti Webb and Sarah Brightman, it returns in Paul Foster's 2016 production, which includes an intimate chat where Jodie reflects on life, love and playing the role of Emma.

The Blackpool-born performer last appeared at the Grand Opera House in February 2015 in the title role in Calamity Jane and is best known for landing the part of Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh’s West End production of Oliver! through her triumph in I’d Do Anything in 2008.

Jodie, 36, also starred in the National Theatre staging of Hull playwright Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors, both in the West End and on tour, and as Lady of the Lake in Eric Idle's musical, Monty Python's Spamalot, and she is a regular presenter on BBC Radio Two.

Both tomorrow and next Friday's shows start at 7.30pm. York tickets are on sale on 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.co.uk; Scarborough, 01723 821888 scarboroughspa.co.uk