ARMED with a cast of hormonal women, memory loss one-liners and innuendo-laden versions of pop classics, Menopause the Musical comes to Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts next week part of a 42-date UK tour.

Starring Cheryl Fergison (EastEnders star Heather Trott), Maureen Nolan (The Nolans), Casualty’s Rebecca Wheatley and Hilary O’Neil (ITV Copy Cats), who describe the show as "therapy for the soul".

This is Cheryl third tour with Menopause The Musical and for her the timing couldn’t be better.

“This show simply had to be made. It tells you it’s okay to talk about the subject and I’m delighted because I’m going through the menopause myself at the moment. You see, until you do you have no idea it’s such a big thing.”

Cheryl adds, grinning: “Suddenly I’m sprouting a moustache. I could do Movember, (the movement which encourages men to grow moustaches.)

“I’ve never been one for creams, but I’m looking at them now and thinking ‘Is this going to make me firmer? Is this going to take my beard off?’”

Menopause The Musical, says Cheryl, features songs that connect with her state of mind.

“There are songs about getting older and the inevitability of your body shape changing.” She looks at her body and smiles; “Yes, it’s getting rounder.

“And I love the fact this show reminds everyone that the menopause makes you emotional. I’m not an emotional person but now I am tearing up, all the time, over nothing at all”.

This hilarious celebration of women and 'The Change', is an all-singing, all-dancing comedy bringing together four women at a department store sale, who on first appearance have nothing in common.

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

Menopause the Musical is at Lighthouse on Thursday, April 12 and parodies 25 of the top ‘baby boomer’ songs of the 60s and 70s.