YOU know you're going to have a success on your hands with a bubblegum musical featuring the back catalogue of Take That.
There are two generations of fans who would turn out for a karaoke night of the lads' tunes if it meant they could get up and have a sing-a-long to Relight My Fire, Babe or A Million Love Songs.
So throw into the mix a couple of heart-throb soap stars and you've got a blockbuster show.
Never Forget returned to
Milton Keynes Theatre this week with a new cast, new set and a bit of tweaking to the original format. As expected, everyone from teeny-bopping kids to well-upholstered grannies, were dancing in the aisles.
Inevitably it will get compared to last year's production and it's clear that some cost-cutting changes have been made in the decision to take the musical back on the road.
We've lost the spectacular (and expensive) big bang pyrotechnics in the finale. Instead we get a lot of very bright lights.
And last year's smart rain wall, that closed Act One by spelling out words in the shower, was replaced with an only slightly clever rain curtain that parted so as not to soak our singing stars during Back For Good.
The 2008 show featured a due reverence to the source material. It wasn't out to ridicule the group but to pay homage to their incredible achievements through a feel-good aspirational love story.
Throughout the production there were nods to Gary, Mark, Robbie, Jason and Howard with signature moments from their career - like a series of costume changes during I Found Heaven showing off some of the boys' iconic outfits.
In the new show the scene was reduced to just one outfit (perhaps the new cast couldn't manage the quick-changes).
This time around they've racked up the humour and tightened the pace so that nothing too much gets in the way of the songs.
Never Forget is the story of how five lads with not much going for them, enter into a Battle of the Bands contest as a Take That Tribute Band and end up finding their self-respect, fulfilling their ambitions, and learning the meaning of friendship (aah..)
Mark Willshire had done a lot of understudying before landing the role of Ash who takes the part of Gary in the band. He's not the world's greatest singer, in fact he struggled to hit the high notes throughout the opening night, but, by the extended finale, no-one really cared.
Hollyoaks and Doctors actor Adam C Booth larked around as Jake, the joker in the pack, who landed the role of Robbie Williams.
He bore no resemblance to the singer, but then none of them did and none of them needed to, that was part of the gag, but his sparkling personality did inject a bit of life into the clichéd dialogue.
Fellow Hollyoaks hunk Philip Olivier had the girls in the audience swooning as male stripper Dirty Harry who takes on Howard's role in the band.
He had a seriously ripped physique (spoiled by the support bandage on the knee - but the boy's got to look after himself) and a nice line in dead-pan humour. It was worth the ticket price just to see him peel off his shirt.
ITV's Grease Is The Word launched the career of Tom Bradley and the actor's done all right for himself since. He starred in the national tour of Godspell, which played at Dunstable's Grove Theatre, and he took the title role in Dick Whittington at Watford Palace Theatre last Christmas.
But the tall rangy performer he made the unlikeliest Mark Owen wannabe – which only added to the comedy.
There was a little too much posturing as Tom milked the role of boring banker Adrian but this musical was nothing if not true to its stereotypes.
The real inspiration came with making Jason Orange's character, Jose Reize, Spanish. Yorkshire-born Scott Graham was given full rein to go all out for laughs and he grabbed the chance.
The only original member of the cast was Teddy Kempner who continued to find hidden depths in his role as band manager Ron Freeman.
Mention should also be made of the incredibly talented backing dancers, too many to list, who were red hot throughout. The energy buzzed all night as they swung from the sexy Once You've Tasted Love to the high voltage Take That and Party.
Never Forget runs until Saturday. For tickets and information contact the box office 0844 871 7652 or go online www.ambassadortickets.com