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Katherine KinGSLeY (left) who gives an outstanding portrait of Dusty Springfield in the musical Dusty. Kingsley’s voice, and the way she’s able to convey a sense of vulnerability, is superb. Joanna Francis is great, too, as an american singer who represents many of Springfield’s lovers rolled into one.

Dusty charts the singer’s rise to fame and how her demons felled her. the show is on now at the theatre royal, Bath before heading to the Lyceum in Sheffield (from July 12) followed by the theatre royal, newcastle and Lowry in Salford. TYRONE HUNTLEY (left) who won acclaim for roles in musicals Jesus Christ Superstar and Dreamgirls. He’ll star, with Harry McEntire, Dan Krikler and Cash Holland, in Jordan Seavey’s Homos, Or Everyone In America, directed by Josh Seymour at the Finborough Theatre from August 7.

Huntley will play an academic living with a writer. ‘It’s about two men, but it could be about two women, or a man and a woman ... we all come up against challenges in a relationship,’ he said. He noted that he’d spent seven years doing musicals. ‘I wanted to be able to speak dialogue for a change.’