Nostalgia can be seriously powerful - and Greatest Days uses it to make the audience boogie and sob in equal measure.
The musical, based on the songs of Take That (and previously titled The Band), is on a tour of the UK and its latest stop is at Wales Millennium Centre. It follows Rachel (played in two timelines by Emilie Cunliffe and Coronation Street’s Kym Marsh) and her group of mates who bond over a shared love of a boyband but go their separate ways when tragedy shakes their friendship - until they reunite to see the band one more time
We first meet them as excitable, relatable, hilariously noisy teenage mega-fans, joking about which band member they’re going to marry and singing along to their songs on the bus. But life doesn’t go to plan for Zoe (Hannah Brown/Holly Ashton), Heather (Kitty Harris/Rachel Marwood), Claire (Mari McGinlay/Jamie-Rose Monk) and Rachel, and when they return to the stage as adults, that is when Greatest Days finds its groove in their arguments, regrets and grief.
