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NEWS: Full Casting Announced for UK & Ireland Tour of Greatest Days

The Official Take That Musical will embark on a brand new tour, coinciding with the film adaptation set to be released.

Full casting has been confirmed for the upcoming UK & Ireland tour of Greatest Days, which is set to open at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley on the 6th May.

Joining the previously announced Kym Marsh as Rachel and her daughter Emilie Cunliffe as Young Rachel will be: Taylor Alman (The Legend of White Bear Lake), Charlotte Anne Steen (Bat Out of Hell), Holly Ashton (Footloose), Hannah Brown (Hansel & Gretel), Kalifa Burton (Matilda), Benjamin Cameron (Grease Royal Caribbean) Jamie Corner (The Band), Archie Durrant (Matilda), Regan Gascoigne (winner of Dancing on Ice 2022, Cinderella), Kitty Harris (David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny), Bayley Hart (Heathers), Keith Henderson (Shrek the Musical), Karen Holmes (Grease), Christopher D. Hunt (Waitress), Evangeline Jarvis-Jones (The Sound of Music), Rachel Marwood (The Possibility of Colour), Mari McGinlay (Hairspray), Jamie-Rose Monk (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Mary Moore (Grease West End), Alexanda O’Reilly (Mamma Mia!) and Alan Stocks (Calendar Girls).

The musical follows a group of five best friends in the 1990’s who are obsessed with their favourite boy band. The girls then reunite more than 20 years later with a plan to see their heartthrobs one last time in what could be the Greatest Days of their lives.

Co-directed by Stacey Haynes and Tim Firth, the musical features 15 of Take That’s best known songs and has been written for the stage by Tim Firth. It was originally produced as The Band by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Take That. The UK tour of The Band originally opened at Manchester Opera House in September 2017, before transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a limited run.

The creative team behind the production also includes Choreography by Aaron Renfree, Set & Costume Design by Lucy Osborne, Lighting Design by Rob Casey, Sound Design by Tony Gayle, Casting by David Grindrod Burton Casting, Musical Supervision by John Donovan and Costume Supervision by Martin Rodges.

For more information and tour dates visit: https://greatestdaysmusical.com/