When you're picked to depict the one and only Dusty Springfield on stage - you know you must be doing something right.

.. Arnopp, an Irish soprano and actress, is set to turn heads as she takes over the lead role in Dusty at Charing Cross Theatre. With a background in classical singing and musical theatre - she studied at both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music - Arnopp appears the perfect package to take on the 1960s icon's greatest songs, such as You Don't Have to Say You Love Me and Son of a Preacher Man. Well, here's to Wishin' and Hopin' the reviewers think so too.

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