AFTER starring in the comeback tour of Birds Of A Feather at the Grand Opera House, in York, last June, Lesley Joseph will appear at the theatre again on April 14.

This time Lesley will play Myra in the spring 2014 tour of Hot Flush! , "the naughtiest comedy musical in town" that takes a journey into the friendships, secrets and ups and downs of four ordinary women and the many men in their lives.

Lesley's Myra is joined on the girls' night out by Lori Haley Fox's Sylvia, Anne Smith's Helen and Ruth Keeling's Jessica as the quartet of feisty menopausal women gathers every Tuesday at a bar for moral support, a shoulder to cry on, a gossip and the chance to malign the men in their lives. Those men - 15 of them - will all be played by Matt Slack, so no slacking for Matt.

"It's my third time of doing this show and I've never known a show with so many rolling laughs," says Lesley.

"It's quite close to the knuckle and everyone is up for it from the start. It's one of those shows where, as soon as you've finished a tour, people ask, 'When is it coming back?' This time I was doing my own thing when I got a call asking if I wanted to do it again and it fitted in perfectly after panto last Christmas."

Best known for her role as Dorien Green, the neighbour from hell in the newly revived, newly ITV sitcom Birds Of A Feather, Lesley is cast as a barrister specialising in divorce in Hot Flush! Lawyer Myra had always considered herself a together sort of person until she began to develop symptoms of you know what and her rat of a husband left her for a blonde bimbo from his office.

"It's a very woman-orientated show but there are a lot of men that come to it too," says Lesley.

"It's part of that genre of shows like The Vagina Monologues, opening the door to subjects that people might not expect to hear in the theatre, but I think it's terribly important to keep re-generating theatre.

"It's important that theatre is for everybody, whether you're going to a pantomime, a Shakespeare performance, a musical or Hot Flush!. It should be an immersive experience and that's why I'm so pleased to be doing this show."

Lesley, now 68, will be on the road for 12 weeks. "It might be my last tour, but it might not," she teases.

"I'm very lucky that I can pick and choose parts and this one is such fun to do."

Lesley Joseph stars in Hot Flush, Grand Opera House, York, on April 14 at 7.30pm. Box office: 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york