Producer Adam Kenwright has announced that Greatest Days – The Official Take That Musical, is to embark on a UK and Ireland tour in 2023.
Previously known as The Band, the show has a book by award winning playwright Tim Firth, and the tour kicks off from 5 May 2023.
The tour coincides with the release of the official movie version of the musical in Summer 2023, starring Aisling Bea and Jayde Adams.
The timing also coincides with the 20th Anniversary of Take That’s first ever UK number 1 single – Pray.
Casting is to be announced, plus further dates will be added in cities including Blackpool, Glasgow, Bristol, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Southampton, Truro, Leeds, Leicester and Birmingham.
Take That – Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen – are one of the most successful band’s in British chart history, with over 45 million records sold worldwide and 12 number 1 hits in the UK.
Writer Tim Firth’s credits include recent Gary Barlow collaboration Gary Barlow – A Different Stage at the Duke of York’s Theatre; Olivier Award winning musical Our House, This is My Family, Neville’s Island, and Calendar Girls.. Tim’s film credits include Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots.
Take That said: “We are so thrilled that this new production now titled ‘Greatest Days’ is launching next year. We had an enormous amount of fun working on the original version and can’t wait to help bring this new production to over 30 cities across the UK and Ireland from May 2023.”
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.
Greatest Days includes more than 15 of Take That’s classic songs. The show was originally produced as The Band by David Pugh & Daffyd Rogers, plus Take That and toured in 2017 to 2019, including a run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket at Christmas 2018.
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2023/ 2024 Greatest Days Tour Schedule
5 – 13 May
Bromley Churchill Theatre
16 – 27 May
Manchester Palace Theatre
29 May – 3 June
Newcastle Theatre Royal
5 – 10 June
Woking New Victoria Theatre
12 – 17 June
Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
27 June – 1 July
Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre
3 – 8 July
Milton Keynes Theatre
10 – 15 July
Liverpool Empire Theatre
17 – 22 July
Wolverhampton Grand
24 – 29 July
Cheltenham Everyman Theatre
