New production images are in for Greatest Days – The Official Take That Musical – including Jennifer Ellison as Rachel, who joins the cast on 21 August 2023.
The show started its big UK tour in May 2023, and is currently at the Blackpool Opera House to 19 August.
The full cast of Greatest Days includes Jennifer Ellison as Rachel and Olivia Hallett as Young Rachel alongside Taylor Alman, Charlotte Anne Steen, Holly Ashton, Hannah Brown, Kalifa Burton, Benjamin Cameron, Jamie Corner, Archie Durrant, Regan Gascoigne, Kitty Harris, Bayley Hart, Keith Henderson, Karen Holmes, Christopher D. Hunt , Evangeline Jarvis-Jones, Rachel Marwood, Mari McGinlay, Jamie-Rose Monk, Mary Moore, Alexanda O’Reilly and Alan Stocks.
The musical is written by Tim Firth, with co-direction by Stacey Haynes and Tim Firth, Choreography by Aaron Renfree, Set & Costume Design by Lucy Osborne, Lighting Design by Rob Casey and Sound Design by Tony Gayle.
Jennifer Ellison is best known for playing Emily Shadwick in TV soap Brookside, and played Meg Giry in the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.
Jennifer also played Tracey in horror movie The Cottage, Lynda La Plante’s The Commander: Abduction, Liverpool Nativity for BBC Three, Hotel Babylon for BBC1, The Verdict, New Street Law, and The Brief.
On stage her credits include Singin’ In The Rain, Legally Blonde, Calendar Girls, Boeing Boeing, The War Of The Worlds, and Chicago.
Greatest Days celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Take That’s first ever UK number 1 single Pray, and features more than 15 record-breaking Take That songs alongside a heart-warming and hilarious story of love, loss and laughter.
The musical follows a group of five best friends in the 1990’s who are obsessed with their favourite boy band. The girls 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.
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UK Tour Dates
15 – 19 August
BLACKPOOL Opera House
21 – 26 August
GLASGOW King’s Theatre
28 August – 2 September
EDINBURGH Playhouse
4 – 9 September
NOTTINGHAM Theatre Royal
11– 16 September
BRISTOL Hippodrome
18 – 23 September
BRADFORD Alhambra Theatre
26 – 30 September
SOUTHAMPTON Mayflower
2 – 7 October
NORTHAMPTON Royal & Derngate
9 – 14 October
BRIGHTON Theatre Royal
17 – 21 October
TRURO Hall for Cornwall
23 – 28 October
LEICESTER Curve
30 October – 4 November
HULL New Theatre
7 – 11 November
AYLESBURY Waterside Theatre
14 – 18 November
SUNDERLAND Empire
21 – 25 November
LEEDS Grand Theatre and Opera House
