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My Top 5 Showtunes: The Band's Five to Five

The ”Let It Shine” winners tell us the musical numbers they couldn’t live without

Ben Hewis

Ben Hewis

| London | London's West End | Off-West End |

9 September 2017

Curtis T Johns, Nick Carsberg, AJ Bentley, Yazdan Qafouri, Sario Solomon
Curtis T Johns, Nick Carsberg, AJ Bentley, Yazdan Qafouri, Sario Solomon
© Matt Crockett

Five to Five is a boyband made up of AJ, Curtis, Nick, Sario and Yazdan. Together they saw off hundreds of contestants on the TV talent show Let It Shine for the chance to star in new Take That musical The Band.

As the musical prepares to have its world premiere at the Opera House in Manchester, we caught up with the lads and asked them: "If you were stranded on a desert island which five showtunes could you not live without?"

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AJ Bentley: "Run and Tell That!" from Hairspray

Such a great song that you can really dance to. The whole show is brilliant.

Curtis T Johns: "I Can Make You a Man" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

It's so much fun. The show itself has a great vibrancy and this song in particular is super entertaining to watch!

Nick Carsberg: "I Want to Make Magic" from Fame

It's the first solo song I ever sang in front of any audience, and it's just a great song!

Sario Solomon: "Being a Geek" from 13 the Musical

Ive always looked up to Jason Robert Brown, he's a musical genius. This song brings back all the fond memories I had working with him in the West End production at the Apollo.

Yazdan Qafouri: "The Flesh Failures" from Hair

I love the use of the Shakespeare sonnet. It's a really haunting song and the perfect culmination of the whole musical!

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