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First Look: Gary Barlow’s The Band Musical Featuring Five to Five (Video)

by Staff Writer
April 3, 2017
Reading Time: 6 mins read
LtoR Gary Barlow, Mark Owen & Howard Donald at The Band launch credit Matt Crockett (3)

LtoR Gary Barlow, Mark Owen & Howard Donald at The Band launch credit Matt Crockett (3)

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First Look: Gary Barlow’s The Band Musical Featuring Five to Five

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David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Take That have announced that the UK Tour of Tim Firth’s new musical, The Band, with the music of Take That,  will have a major UK Tour, beginning at Manchester Opera House on 8 September.

       

The producers made the announcement yesterday, Sunday 2 April, on stage at the Manchester Apollo (where Take That first performed in 1992), following a rapturous reception to a rehearsed reading of the new musical in front of an audience of invited guests, from fans to friends.

The Band is a new musical about what it’s like to grow up with a boyband.  For five 16 year-old friends in 1992, ‘the band’ is everything.  25 years on, we are reunited with the group of friends, now 40-something women, as they try once more to fulfil their dream of meeting their heroes.

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The Band will be played by AJ Bentley, Nick Carsberg, Yazdan Qafouri Isfahani, Curtis T Johns and Sario Watanabe-Soloman, who, as Five to Five, won BBC’s Let It Shine.  Playing the parts of Rachel and Young Rachel will be Rachel Lumberg and Faye Christall respectively.  Further casting is to be announced.

Tour details and tickets available here. 

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