SUMMER IS COMING!

HAVE YOUR KIDS GOT TALENT?

It's that time of year again, summer is only around the corner and we have the perfect activity to keep your children entertained and excited with three whole days of activities, fun and a live performance!

After last years success of our 'Kids Got Talent' 3 day workshop we have decided to run the same summer school activity this year to give even more children a chance to take part in this amazing opportunity. 

Manic Stage Productions we will be hosting 'Kids Got Talent' from Wednesday 5th - Friday 7th August 2015.

The idea of 'Kids Got Talent' is to encourage all the children to bring along their own talent to the Portsmouth's Guildhall and to practise and perfect it over the three days with the added assistance of our talented team. The aim is to make their individual skill show time ready for the on stage performance on the final day!

The children will also learn a whole host of new skills throughout the workshop days including dancing, singing, acting, arts and crafts, and lots lots more. 

The children will make new friends and be working in groups with new people to expand their repertoire of skills as the days pass.

One of the main attractions of this workshop event is the amazing opportunity to perform on the actual stage. We are lucky enough that the Friday performance showcase will be on the Guildhall stage, with lighting, sound and costumes! The children will be putting on a "proper" show of which family and friends are invited to come and see on the final afternoon. 

With the chance for the children to showcase each of their own talents and group numbers as a whole cast, the jam packed show will feature all types of entertainment for the parents viewing pleasure. 

After last years brilliant workshop we can not wait to see this years turn out..... so start practising those talents and book your places now so not to miss out this summer!! 

The cost of the three day workshop is £75 per child.
Each day will run from 10am-3pm at PortsmouthGuildhall

Dates are Wednesday 5th - Friday 7th August 2015.

Book your places now through Paypal on our event page via our website www.manicsp.co.uk 

We look forward to seeing you all in the summer! 

Any queries or questions regarding this please do not hesitate to contact us at manicstageproductions@gmail.com

What A Sizzling Summer We Had!

A LOOK BACK AT A WONDERFUL SUMMER

After an amazing but very hectic and busy summer we thought we should stop and have a little look back at everything we got up to...

Although it now seems so long ago we started our busy summer at the beginning of August with the Southsea Show. 

Manic hosted and produced the Seaside Special show that took place in the big top tent. With a host of speciality acts, singers, dancers and performers it was a huge hit and the acts performed to a packed out tent full of happy spectators as they watched on and enjoyed the entertainment that was on offer. 

Before the glitz and glamour of the showgirls in the evening show we took to the stage that afternoon to entertain and bring some magic to the event with our Disney inspired children's show. With performances and songs from all your children's favourite sing-a-long films and soundtracks their faces lit up as princesses, animals and all sorts of characters appeared in the spot light to spread a magical feel throughout the big top. 

Lets not forget that also at the Southsea Show Manic hosted our very own 'Frozen' inspired tent which we named 'The Elsa and Anna Experience'. 

With ticketed workshops every hour on both the Saturday and Sunday crowds flocked to pack out our sold out event which gave the children an amazing opportunity to meet our look a like Elsa and Anna charatacters. Along with meeting the girls the children and their parents were able to take part in so many activities including singing and dancing with the characters, a sweetie pick and mix kingdom, Olaf arts and crafts and a very special green screen photobooth that transported you all the way to Arundel itself. 

We had so many happy customers and as they left with their gifts and wish balloons we couldn't have asked for a better turn out. 

The experience worked so well that we will be bringing it back around Christmas time so keep an eye out for more info about this on our website and facebook page. 

No summer or school holiday would be complete without our sort after dance days and workshops! Following on from the Southsea Show we entered into 2 weeks of Manic's Summer School. With more 'Frozen' and 'One Direction' days our excited children turned up each day at Portsmouth Guildhall excited and ready to go for a full day of fun, themed to their favourite stars, films, songs and characters. 

Brand new this year was the launch of our 3 day 'Kid's Got Talent' talent club.

We had a great response and the children that took part really proved how talented and clever they were. 

Over the three days the children learnt a variety of skills including singing, dancing and various drama skills. They then bought along their own talent to perform and we had a brilliant array that all featured in our big show on the final day. 

The talents included: Majorettes, Recorder, Tap Dancing, Duets, Girlband Singing, Modern Dance and Ballet Solo's and Cheerleading. 

Our final show took place on the actual Portsmouth Guildhall stage with a full audience of family and friends. Each child took to the stage with huge smiles, bags of confidence and a super star attitude! For some this was their very first time on stage. They put on an amazing show and we were so proud of what they had learnt and produced over just 3 days. We look forward to next years talent club and would love to know what talents your children may have?

COMING SOON

Schools are starting back this week and even though it is the start of term we have already booked in our half term exciting activities. We will of course due to popular demand be hosting another Frozen day which will be Wednesday 29th October and as an exclusive this year we have a days workshop of 'Michael Jackson's Thriller Halloween Spectacular' which will take place on Halloween Friday 31st October.

 All workshops will be at Portsmouth Guildhall. Keep an eye on our facebook page for the release date to book your places. As always there are only 30 places per day available and last time we sold out within 45 minutes of going live. 

Any other enquiries for bespoke entertainment visit our website www.manicsp.co.uk or contact us at manicstageproductions@gmail.com

Hand Painted Beauties

HAIR AND BEAUTY AWARDS!

Last Saturday the Portsmouth Guildhall hosted the annual industry event 'The News Hair & Beauty' awards.

This is most definitely the biggest date in the salon calendar and each year the biggest and brightest names and talents from the local area join forces to celebrate the high standard of work produced in their craft. 

Every year this event has grown in popularity and success and has certainly become more and more glamorous each time around. For the 2nd year running Manic Stage Productions had been invited and asked to provide the nights entertainment to wow the audience throughout the evening.

We provided our eye catching stilt walker at the main entrance to the Guildhall to welcome the guests for their exciting evening. As always she went down a treat. Our red showgirl costume was shining away and with our feathers out in force everyone was impressed with the sky high entertainment that added that little extra touch to the beginning of the event.  Along side was our topless waiter catching the ladies eye!  Both created the perfect photo opportunities and a bit of a cue began to form once they had caught the guests attention. 

The theme of the evening was 'Cirque Du Soleil' and with such an exciting and outrageous request we decided our costumes needed to be just as creative. Our dancers had skin tight full body silver catsuits to show off their amazing skills, which were beautifully painted and decorated by our body paint artist. With white, blue and silver paint our uniquely painted costumes complimented the night brilliantly and looked super stunning.

Being the hair and beauty awards we needed hair and make up that would stand out and impress, so we did just that. Our face painter continued her work from body painting up to our performers faces to add the finishing touches and with big outrageous hair our look was complete and we were ready to perform.

Next up our team of professionals took to the stage to showcase our brand new 'Cirque Du Soleil' performance. 

We tailored our routines to fit in with the evening and had lots to offer. With stunning choreography, creative dance routines and endless energy our team certainly impressed the crowds. Not only did we have dance, the team showed off their superb acrobatics and circus skills and flexibility followed by 2 pole performance spectacles featuring within the medley. 

The decision to add a little something different was a great one and the elegant and dramatic art of pole dance was a creative addition and something that a lot of people had not seen done in such a way before! It was a big hit and was performed beautifully and showcased strength, sophistication and beauty. 

The medley certainly showed off the amazing talents of our team and the audience loved it. 

As you can see we really can tailor to any sort of theme you may have and will create bespoke entertainment for your event no matter how big or small. 

Get in contact with us at www.manicsp.co.uk or email us at manicstageproductions@gmail.com

Adding Glitz & Glamour

There’s No Business Like Show Business... 

Last week we were invited to be part of the Portsmouth Business Expo 2014. The prestigious event was this year held at the grand Portsmouth Guildhall. A huge and diverse selection of businesses set up their stands ready to welcome some of Portsmouth's business elite to browse over what their company has to offer. 

Our  Show Girlz welcome and entertain the crowds as they entered the historic building ready for a long day of networking. Way up high on our stilts we excited the public from the moment they arrived and saw us through the doors. 

Throughout the day we changing our outfits and surprising the public with our eye catching array of colouful and fun themed costumes. We showcased our much loved favorites including:

Showgirls

Bunny Girls

Sailors

Clowns

and Can Can Girls. 

We spent the day walking round the stands introducing ourselves to the many businesses present, explaining to them how we could enhance their business on a day like today.

Advertising and drawing attention was our aim and thats exactly what we did. 
We attracted a lot of interest and were surely remembered for the fun we brought to proceedings. 

We previously worked for a company much like all of the businesses present at The Olympia Business Show in London. We were able to explain that by using The SHOW Girlz so many people noticed the business and came over to browse and find out more about what the company had to offer. As always The Show Girlz were there to draw in the crowds and bring a touch of glamour to the days events!

A the end of the day out came our stilts again for a wander through the stalls (with another costume change of course). We posed for photos on and off our stilts with lots of different companies and were tweeting away making new contacts and friends. 

We hope to work with many of you in the future and don’t hesitate to contact us if you feel we could be of any help or assistance at your next event!

www.manicsp.co.uk   manicstageproductions@gmail.com 

Directioners Unite!

One Direction Fun Day!

Back in February we held our 1st very popular One Direction FunDay in the half term and it went down brilliantly. Due to popular demand and a sell out in a record timing of just two days we had to create a second day to accommodate all the interest. 

Taking place at Portsmouth's Guildhall the children got a real taste of what it was like to perform just as our favourite boy band 1D do. 

With five jam packed hours of singing, dancing, crafts and catwalks the children were entertained all day and in their element performing to their favourite 1D stars top 10 tracks.

With everything themed around the One Direction boys it really was a directioners dream! We started with a mixture of games followed by some funky routines to the One Direction smash hit 'Best Song Ever'. The super fans even created some of their our very own '1D' cheerleading chants. Fun, energetic performance pieces were created and showed how bigger fans our children were of the band. 

With it being Valentines Day after lunch each child made their own super fan valentines cards to send to their chosen member of the band and wrote in it their special message just for them. We decorated them and personalised them ready to take home at the end of the day. 

Our confidence catwalk was to the famous song 'What Makes You Beautiful'. Full of smiles, poses, fun and giggles all the children took their place on the runaway and headed down the catwalk to show off their new found confidence and moves. Parents always love to see their little stars have  their special moment in the spotlight. 

Both days were so much fun and everyone enjoyed all of the fantastic 1D themed activities. Mum's, dad's and the rest of the family all came together at the end of the day to watch their little ones in the finale performance and showcase all the talent from that day. The children put on a fantastic show leaving some very happy and impressed parents. Feed back was that the children didn't want to leave and are already so excited for Easter and joining us at some of our other Fun Days that we have coming up soon. Overall it was a very memorable successful two days and we can't wait to do it all again in a few weeks!

Our upcoming dates are all taking place at the Portsmouth Guildhall and are as follows: 

April Easter Holidays:
Disney Dance Day - Monday 14th

          One Direction Dance Day - Tuesday 15th 

          Pop Party Dance Day - Thursday 17th

Time: 10am-3pm

Performance at 2:30pm

Price £20 

LIMITED PLACES BOOK NOW!

Please pay via PayPal at www.manicsp.co.uk 

or contact us at manicstageproductions@gmail.com 

Kids Half Term One Direction Dance Day!

Your child’s chance to learn how to be a One Direction backing dancer!

Wednesday 19^th February 10am-3pm at The Portsmouth Guildhall

(Showtime 2:30pm)

Has your child ever wanted to learn how to be just like one of the backing dancers to THE worlds biggest boybands?

Here is your budding littles stars chance to sparkle!

5 hours packed full of Singing, Dancing, Catwalks, Crafts and fun fun fun, all to your favourite One Direction Songs!

Your child will be learning the coolest dance routines, Singing-a-long to ‘The best songs ever’ making new friends with other 1D super fans and building confidence on our

 ‘That’s what makes you beautiful catwalk’ Craft time will also be themed around the 1D boys and each child will perform to family and friends at the end of the day in our \

'1D Super Star Show'

Mum’s and dad's give yourself the day off and send your children (6 years old and above) to our fun packed day run by Manic Stage Productions and our friendly, enthusiastic , professional dancers. (CRB Checked & Fully Insured)

Then arrive back at 2:30pm to be blown away with the Catwalk and Showtime, showing off all of the days hard work! 

Please provide your child with a packed lunch and drink, comfortable clothes they are able to move in, any One Direction clothes are great , but anything colourful and bright will be fab for the day!

All for only £20 for the day! Payments can be made via Paypal 

Our Paypal merchant email is manic_sproductions@yahoo.co.uk

Or follow the link on our website www.manicsp.co.uk 

Alternatively email manicstageproductions@gmail.com with any questions or queries you may have!

Limited availability, so please book fast to avoid disappointment! 

Surrounded by Celebrities

It was celebs all the way this weekend as The Show Girlz performed for the glittering Beauty Awards hosted by the glamourous Amy Childs and sponsored by top hair stylist to the stars Lee Stafford.

Nicole took her seat amongst the creme de la creme of Hampshires beauty and hair industry whilst the girlz prepared for their 20 minute musical extravaganza performance on the Guildhall stage!

Outside our sexy stilt walker welcomed the guests with sweets and an even sweeter smile!

The champagne was flowing on arrival and was followed by a delicious 3 course meal. At 9pm The Show Girlz took to the stage to entertain the 450 merry crowd.

Our 5 strong, talented team performed a medley of high energy choreography. Including pieces from Moulin Rouge, Dirty Dancing, Cabaret and Viva Las Vegas.

The audience were treated to 5 vibrant costume changes and 2 solo vocal performances amongst 10 toe tapping tunes. The crowd clapped and cheered with delight as each section quickly rolled into the next.

We had such a fantastic response from everyone watching and we were delighted with how successful the whole night was. Sara from JP South Events who organised the extravagant evening complimented us and said “Thanks soooo much Nicole, your girls were fantastic!! And the stilt walker really surprised the crowd. We will definitely be working with you again"

We even received a tweet from Lee Stafford!!

Amy Childs presented the awards and Nicole managed to sneak a quick picture with her back stage

Lastly we would like to congratulate our TOWERPOWER landlord Tony Wood on his award! His amazing hair salon and team United Salons situated in the Clock Tower (Our Office Building!) was crowned Salon of the Year 2013

 What a fun filled night we had! We can't wait to see if we get invited back next year! Fingers crossed! 

Check out this little video of the event and look out for our gorgeous girlz near the end.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/salons-triumph-at-our-awards-night-1-5190873

For more information or to book Manic Stage Productions and The SHOW Girlz please visit www.manicsp.co.uk