The Band, Norwich Theatre Royal, 2018.
Cast: Rachel Lumberg, Alison Fitzjohn, Emily Joyce, Jayne McKenna, AJ Bentley, Nick Carlsberg, Curtis T Johns, Yazdan Qafouri, Sario Solomon, Faye Christall, Katy Clayton, Rachelle Diedricks, Sarah Kate Howarth, Lauren Jacobs, Martin Miller, Andy Williams.
Writer: Tim Firth
Director: Kim Gavin
This was the first tour of the musical using Take That songs before it became a film and then toured again as Greatest Days. I didn't see that tour but I did see the film which sticks in my head more than this. I remember there being a bed on the set and maybe the band appearing out of it, but that does fit with the film so perhaps I've completely misremembered it.
It's a nice idea for a musical - the enduring power of music - but it does rely on you having some connection to Take That to get a big audience so I'm not sure it will endure. It's interesting reading in the programme how the five actors playing the band were going to be a band and record an album in their own right, which I imagine never happened although I'm too scared to look on Wikipedia and find out.
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