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Musicals Hen Party Dance Class Blackpool
A musicals hen party dance class in Blackpool for the group that can't agree on one show — so we take a bit of several. Chorus-line kicks, a key change, and jazz hands nobody is allowed to be sheepish about. For £185 plus the venue, the whole cast gets ninety minutes.
Book the room
Send the date and the show that started the argument.
We'll ask which musicals matter to your group well before the day. The date, rough numbers and where you're staying is all we need to come back with a price and a room.
- £185 plus the venue for the room, however big the cast
- Our hired room on Hornby Road, or your hotel's function room
- Dates and the room back inside 24 hours
A real Blackpool hen doWhere the class happens
A function room we hire on Hornby Road, or we come to you.
- Hornby Road, FY1 4RDThe hired town-centre function room — two minutes from the Winter Gardens; confirmed with your booking
- Your hotel or apartmentFunction room or a cleared lounge anywhere on the front, and along the Fylde coast by arrangement
Why a medley beats one show
Everybody gets their number in.
Picking a single show for a hen party is a reliable way to start a row, so most groups on our hen party dance class list end up here instead — a medley, stitched together from two or three shows the room genuinely cares about. The choreographer asks for a shortlist in advance, works out which numbers share a tempo, and builds something that moves between them. It means the bride's favourite gets its moment and so does the one her mum has now seen four times. Two shows is comfortable, three is ambitious, and four has been attempted, though something usually has to give.
Stage choreography is unusually kind to beginners, which is the other reason it works so well as a hen do dance class. Musical theatre is written to be read from the back of a large room, so the shapes are big and clear rather than fiddly: a step-touch with a proper arm on it looks like a hundred times more than it is. Expect a chorus-line section, a key-change moment where everything gets larger, and at least one pose held far longer than is dignified. Sequins, boas and top hats will be in every photograph if you bring them, and bring them you must — we don't supply costumes, props or shoes.
Blackpool is a decent town to do this in: the touring shows come through, the theatres are ten minutes from wherever you're standing, and a matinee makes an excellent second half to the day. If the group would rather commit to a single show, the Wicked class and the SIX class both do exactly that. Nobody in the room has to have actually seen any of the shows, incidentally — the group votes, the choreographer teaches, and the one person who has never sat through a musical in her life tends to be the loudest by the end. And if somebody finishes wanting more of it, the jazz end of our weekly classes in town is the obvious next step.
In the price
What £185 plus the venue buys the whole group.
Almost everyone takes the ninety minutes here, because a medley needs room to learn two changes of gear. Hiring the room is the one extra and it's quoted before you commit to anything. Whether you searched for a musicals dance class hen party or a musicals dance hen party in Blackpool, this is the one flat-fee version.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- Musicals choreography built for your group
- All music and sound equipment
- Warm-up and cool-down
- Beginner-friendly instruction
- Photo and video opportunities
- Help picking the theme and the song
- Group coordination beforehand
- A spotlight moment for the bride
What you'll experience
- A musicals medley built from the shows your group names
- Big, stage-sized shapes rather than fiddly footwork
- A chorus line, a key change and one pose held far too long
- A choreographer who'll swap a number out if it isn't landing
- A bar of her own for the bride, if she'd like the spotlight
- A last full run staged for the cameras
Perfect for
- Groups who could not agree on one show if you paid them
- A bride who has seen everything twice from the circle
- Hen parties wanting a daytime activity before a theatre trip
- Anyone whose idea of a good afternoon involves jazz hands
- Mixed-age groups whose shows span forty years
- A hen party idea that photographs ridiculously well
How ninety minutes tends to run
Three shows, one routine.
The warm-up is deliberately theatrical — posture, arms, faces — because half of musical theatre is committing to it in front of people. Then the first number goes in, taught in short phrases with the arms attached from the beginning rather than bolted on afterwards. Once that section is holding together the music changes and the second number arrives, usually at a different tempo, and that gear change is the bit that wakes everybody up.
The last stretch is all about the joins: how you get out of one show and into the next without the room falling apart, and where the big finish sits. The bride tends to take the front on the final chorus, or a line of her own if she'd rather share it out. Ninety minutes gives you two full runs and time to film the second. How it actually divides gets worked out with your group on the day — this is the usual pattern, not a promised running order.
Afterwards
Reviews from the chorus line.
We gave her four shows and she got three of them into one routine. My sister has watched the video more times than she'll admit to.
Nineteen of us, ages twenty-two to seventy, and every single one did the jazz hands. I have photographic proof.
We went straight from this to a matinee and spent the whole first act nudging each other.
Best hour and a half of the weekend.
The practical bits
Musicals, answered honestly.
IWhich musicals can we ask for?
Whichever ones the group cares about — send a shortlist with the enquiry and the choreographer will tell you honestly which two or three sit together well. We aren't affiliated with any show; the routine is inspired by them rather than lifted from them.
IIDo we have to be able to sing?
No. Plenty of people sing along and nobody stops them, but the class is entirely about the dancing. If your group wants a musicals hen party activity with no singing in it whatsoever, this is exactly that.
IIIIs the musicals routine hard if we've never danced?
It's one of the friendlier themes for a room of beginners, because stage choreography is designed to be big and obvious. You'll be taught in short phrases and repeat each one until it sticks, and the whole thing gets pitched at whoever is finding it hardest.
IVWhat should we wear for the musicals class?
Something you can move and lift your arms in. Boas, sequins and top hats make the photographs, but they come with you — we don't supply costumes, props or shoes.
VIs a musicals dance hen party good for a wide age range?
It's one of the best hen party ideas we know for it, because a medley can reach back forty years. One number for the mums, one for the bride's friends, and everybody in the room knows at least half of it.
VIWe're staying on the front — where would the musicals class be?
Whichever suits you better. Parties with no space at their hotel use the function room we hire on Hornby Road (FY1 4RD), a couple of minutes from the Winter Gardens and walkable from the station; parties with a function room or a clearable lounge of their own have the class come to them instead.