Greatest Showman hen party dance class Leicester [ big top · leicester run ]
A hired central room, an anthem at full volume, and a party of beginners turning into a company for an afternoon. Ninety minutes is £185 and covers the entire company, with the hired room's venue cost added and the whole thing quoted in writing; if time is short, sixty is £160 on the same venue basis.
One company,
one anthem
Arms wide, everybody on the same beat — the shape a Greatest Showman booking spends its ninety minutes building towards.
Book the run before the calendar closes in
A rough date and an approximate headcount is all it takes to start. A call comes back the same day: what is genuinely free, and one written figure that has the hired room counted into it already. This is the theme that turns a reluctant group into a willing one, which makes it a sensible entry on any list of hen party ideas that has to survive a committee.
It is not a locked decision. A hen do dance class can change theme long after the date is confirmed, and a dance hen party booked as an anthem has occasionally arrived as something quieter. No dance experience is required of anybody in the company either — a sentence most hen party activities cannot honestly offer.
The figures behave themselves. The class fee does not move with the headcount, the room charge is written down rather than gestured at, and any extra the venue chooses to add — parking, a longer hold on the space — appears in the quote before you agree to it rather than afterwards.
A film score, restaged around your company
Nothing exists before the teacher has seen who walked in. The music comes with them, the floor starts empty, and the shape of the session is decided by the balance of nerve and appetite in the room — so a company of eighteen who have never taken a class and a company hiding two people who did musical theatre at school both finish with something made for them. Every routine here is invented in the room rather than carried in ready-made.
The appeal of this score is that it is written for a crowd. The best moments are unison: a stomp that a whole room lands together, arms opening on the same count, a held pose that reads as enormous on camera and costs a beginner almost nothing to execute. Nobody is asked to tumble, climb or lift anybody — the spectacle comes from the group moving as one, not from acrobatics.
Ninety adds the theatre: staged entrances, a section where the party divides and answers itself if it is up for that, a beat kept clear for the bride, and a closing run rehearsed so the phones catch the whole company in frame. At sixty minutes the company warms up, learns one number and finishes it cleanly. We record nothing ourselves; the footage belongs to you.
The stomp-and-clap numbers in this film only work when a whole company lands on the same beat, and a room that has never danced together starts out a fraction apart. The extra half hour is where that fraction closes — enough goes for the back row to stop watching the front, so the big arms on the anthem open out at the same moment.
Sitting a run out is entirely normal and nobody comments on it. If the least confident person in the room would rather anchor the back line than lead the front, the teacher will build the ending that way without needing to be asked twice.
If one number matters more than the rest, say so and the teacher will try to build around it.
Five numbers up for the company to choose between
The Greatest Showthe stomp-and-clap opener that makes a room of strangers into a company
headline actThis Is Methe anthem everybody came for, and the reason the video gets rewatched
very likelyCome Alivebuoyant, unfussy, and generous to anybody still counting under their breath
big-arms optionRewrite the Starsslower and sweeping, with room for a moment that belongs to the bride
if the cast swellsA Million Dreamsthe gentle closer for companies who would rather finish warm than loud
curtain callTreat those five as candidates rather than a programme. What the company actually learns is settled once everyone is in the room, never in advance of it.
[ one number already decided? ]Name it at the desk and the teacher will try to place it.
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Where the run sits in a Leicester day
Hiring in the middle of town is deliberate. Eat first, class mid-afternoon while the company is still fresh, then out towards the Market and whatever the evening becomes, with an anthem that will be sung again at some point before closing time. Victoria Park is a fifteen-minute walk if the party wants photographs somewhere green afterwards.
Whatever the company wears is the company's own doing. Ringmaster coats, top hats, anything with tails and unjustified sequins — all welcome, nothing on that list arriving from us, and the parties who commit to it never once regret the photographs. A company in leggings and plain tops gets exactly the same teaching; they simply lose the visual argument.
Large parties travel in without much difficulty. Companies arrive from Loughborough, Oadby, Wigston and Market Harborough for an afternoon slot with nothing more organised than a shared note, and a room within walking distance of lunch does more for the timing than any amount of planning.
Where to go is settled in writing at the same moment the date is, rather than messaged out later.
Two stubs from the full house
"Eighteen of us, ages nineteen to seventy-one, and by the last run every single one was in it. The teacher gave the nervous ones the back line and the loud ones the front and nobody felt short-changed. The bride sobbed through the anthem, as predicted."
"We expected to be asked to do something athletic and were relieved to find out otherwise. It is stomps and big arms and singing far too loudly. One written figure covered the lot and the room was five minutes from dinner."
Six questions, answered straightforwardly
The seventh is always whether anyone has to be lifted — ring 07535 351968 and be reassured on that point immediately.
How much does a whole company cost? +
Ninety minutes runs to £185 and sixty to £160, always for the company as a whole, with the hired room's venue cost added on and the total written out as one quote. Room charges differ from day to day and extras such as parking can crop up, so treat the written quote as the real number.
Which Showman numbers audition on the day? +
The Greatest Show, This Is Me, Come Alive, Rewrite the Stars and A Million Dreams usually contend, and a number named at the desk is considered. It is a shortlist, not a schedule — the company in the room decides what gets taught.
Does a big cast still fit the room? +
Yes — this theme suits large parties better than most, and the hired room is chosen with the headcount in mind. We work from central Leicester rooms we hire for the slot, so the space is matched to the company, and the exact room is confirmed in writing.
Who is sorting the ringmaster wardrobe? +
That is the company's job. Nothing leaves our side, so top hats, tailcoats and sequins have to be found in your own wardrobes and charity shops. A company in leggings receives exactly the same teaching.
Is there any acrobatics involved at all? +
None. Nobody is lifted, thrown or balanced, and nothing a circus performer would recognise is attempted. The spectacle comes from a whole company moving together, which is why it suits parties of widely mixed ages.
Is ninety minutes better for this one? +
It is the length we recommend, and a large company feels the difference most. Ninety has room for staged entrances, a section where the party splits and answers itself, and a closing run rehearsed for the cameras; sixty minutes does one number properly.