GIRL power Sixties-style is set to come swinging into Blackpool when the musical Shout! takes to the stage of the Opera House in October

An all-star cast including Suzanne Shaw, Atomic Kitten Liz McClarnon, and West End leading ladies Amelia Lily, Niki Evans and Helena Blackman will be bringing some of the greatest pop songs of the era to life.

"We're really forward to fact that we've got five girls on stage and no smelly boys to ruin the performance so we're thrilled," laughed Niki as she joined Suzanne and Amelia in the resort to launch the show.

Shout! tells the story of five very different characters and their experiences.

"Their personalities are all very different and it's about their journey through life during the Sixties via their letters to an agony aunt, " said Suzanne. "They'd probably be called a therapist now."

While the story of the five women carries the plot, it is the songs which will most delight the audience.

Classics ranging from Son of a Preacher Man to You Don't Have to Say you Love Me have all be given special arrangements for the show.

"This is very much a feelgood. fun show," said Niki, "and at the end of the day people know know what they are coming to see and that they will get on their feet and have a dance and a laugh."

Shout! will be a rarity on the stage given that it has an all-girl cast.

Amelia, who is currently starring in Green Day's American Idiot, said: "The last show I did was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and that was a really male driven show and American Idiot is also very male dominated, so I was very excited to be part of Shout!. It is five girls on stage for the whole show which is really exciting.

"It's good for me to go from one extreme to the other and to challenge myself."

Along with classic songs from the likes of Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Lulu the show is also a riot of Sixties fashions with each character just named after a colour - Suzanne is Red Girl, Niki is Orange Girl and Amelia plays Yellow Girl.

"I look like a vanilla ice cream," said Amelia, "and Suzanne looks like something out of Scooby-Doo."

"The show is very nostalgic," said Suzanne. "The Sixties was a brilliant era and a landmark decade for the music industry and the show celebrates that."

Rehearsals for the show start in September and the girls clearly can't wait to get started.

"It would be lovely to get together before then to get to know one another more," said Suzanne, "but we are all working which makes that difficult."

Niki added: "I know this is going to be a brilliant cast. I've met Liz before and it's so nice to work with lovely people

"This is going to be a really fun show to be part of and I think that will show when we get on stage. If you like the people working with, you do a better show."

Winter Gardens managing director Michael Williams added: “The autumn is an incredibly busy time for Blackpool as it’s the Illuminations season so it is great to have such a family-friendly show in the Opera House which will appeal to so many people.”

Shout!, Blackpool Opera House, Wednesday, October 19 to Thursday, November 3. Details from wintergardensblackpool.co.uk