Take That's The Band on tour and heading to Yorkshire

It is coming to the region next year – at Hull New Theatre from Tuesday March 6 to Saturday March 17 and at Leeds Grand Theatre from Tuesday March 20 to Sunday March 31.

The show is touring after a rapturous reception to a rehearsed reading of the new musical in front of an audience of invited guests, including fans, friends and family.

Take That said: “We are incredibly proud and excited that our first production as theatre producers is The Band, a musical that we think will touch the hearts of not just our fans, but everyone.”

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.

Twenty-five 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.

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 the BBC’s Let It Shine.

The Band will be directed by Kim Gavin and Jack Ryder.

Hull Bew Theatre box office is on: 01482 300300 or via the website.

Leeds Grand Theatre is on 0844 848 2700 0r via the website.

The tour starts at Opera House Manchester on Friday September 8 and runs until Saturday September 30.