Time to ‘relight your fire’ and chat to Olivia Hallett who is starring in the Take that musical that is currently visiting the Bristol Hippodrome. The smash hit musical follows best friends in the 90s who reunite for the greatest day of their lives as they win tickets to meet boy band Take That. But how will the show make you ‘Shine’?
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00:00 I mean, we're so lucky because we've got our older cast
00:04 as well as the younger cast.
00:05 So we've all got an older version of us
00:08 and we are really close to our characters actually.
00:11 So being able to confide in those women has been amazing
00:15 because they're basically just us,
00:17 but like 20, 10 years older.
00:20 Not 20, not 20, 10 years older.
00:25 - We are outside the Bristol Hippodrome
00:27 to relight your fire for the greatest days tour
00:29 that's visiting the Bristol Hippodrome
00:31 as part of their touring circuit.
00:34 The smash hit musical follows best friends in the nineties
00:37 who reunite for the greatest days of their lives
00:40 as they win tickets to meet boy band Take That.
00:43 The show features some of the band's most iconic songs
00:46 and heartwarming performances
00:48 from Jennifer Ellison and Olivia Hallett.
00:51 Today, we will chat to Olivia Hallett to find out more.
00:54 Come on.
00:55 - We are at the Bristol Hippodrome.
00:56 We are on the stage of the greatest days UK tour.
01:00 Oh, it's so good.
01:01 It's amazing.
01:02 We get to be in a new place every week.
01:04 We're with like our cast,
01:07 which has just become our little family.
01:10 Yeah, so you can definitely expect
01:12 all of your favourite songs, they're in there.
01:14 But also the heartwarming story of the girls.
01:18 And I think as well,
01:19 it's just really nostalgic for so many people.
01:22 I think that's the first thing that people say to us
01:24 when we come out at stage door and things.
01:26 - The show is on until Saturday, the 16th of September
01:31 and is written by an award-winning writer, Tim Firth
01:34 and really will make your heart shine.
01:38 - So when you hear about it,
01:39 you think when you think it's Take That
01:42 and you think it's the story of Take That.
01:43 So I always love telling people the plot
01:46 because it's about the fans and it's about friendship.
01:51 These five girls, they grow up
01:54 and we learn everything that they didn't do
01:57 or they did do and how their lives differ
02:01 from what they thought it was going to be.
02:04 It's everything that you would have done when you grew up.
02:07 It's the dancing with your friends in the playground.
02:10 It's the talking about the pop videos.
02:13 Yeah, I think it's just mostly about the journey
02:19 of growing up and the friendships that we still hold on to.
02:23 - As a recent musical theatre graduate,
02:26 Olivia is very new to the industry.
02:29 Let's find out about what it's like to be a young woman
02:32 in the performing arts industry.
02:35 - We're moving in the right direction completely
02:38 and we're pushing for those changes.
02:41 And I think that that only comes from strong women
02:44 and their belief in their voices.
02:47 And we're really lucky because there are so many good people
02:50 for all the bad, there's so many good people.
02:52 And those support systems are so important.
02:56 So to have those, we're making the changes
03:00 that we wouldn't have seen 10 years ago.
03:02 And that's really exciting.