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Greatest Showman Hen Party Dance Class Blackpool
A Greatest Showman hen party dance class in Blackpool for groups who want to make a lot of noise together. Stomping unison, arms out wide, a ringmaster moment for the bride and a chorus everybody already knows — £185 plus the venue for ninety minutes, whole party, or £160 plus the venue for an hour.
Over to you
Send the date and we will tell you what is free.
Headcount, where you are staying and whether the bride wants the ringmaster spot. That is all we need to get a room and a price back to you.
- £185 plus the venue for everyone, not per person
- The function room we hire on Hornby Road, or your own space
- Dates and the room confirmed by email 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 the Showman theme works
Twenty people, one enormous chorus.
The Greatest Showman is the theme that gets booked when a group wants volume. The songs are built for crowds — stomp, clap, everybody in — and the choreography follows suit: wide arms, a heavy step that lands together, and a lot of moments where the whole room does exactly the same thing at exactly the same time. It is one of the easiest themes on our hen party dance class list to make look impressive, because unison does most of the work and unison is a matter of counting rather than talent.
There is a natural shape to it. The stomp-and-clap opening is taught first, since anyone can do it and it gets the room loud within minutes; then the arms arrive, then the travelling section where the group opens out into a ring. Somewhere in there the bride becomes the ringmaster, if she wants the job, stepping into the middle while everybody else circles her. How much of that gets used depends on the group standing in front of the choreographer — a hen do dance class of eight and one of twenty-eight need very different amounts of ring. Top hats, tailcoats and red jackets look brilliant in the photographs, but they are yours to bring: we do not supply costumes, props or shoes.
Blackpool is not a shy town, which helps enormously. Spectacle here is normal rather than embarrassing, and a hen party belting out a circus chorus in a function room a few streets from the Winter Gardens raises no eyebrows whatsoever. There has been a circus running under the Tower here for well over a century, so a room of hens doing much the same thing for ninety minutes is barely worth a second glance. If your group wants more show tunes and less stomping, the Musicals class is the neighbour, while the SIX class gives you the same big-chorus energy with sharper attitude. Brides occasionally come back to us afterwards for a first dance, having discovered that they can count to eight after all.
What is in it
Where the flat £185 plus the venue goes.
Nearly every Greatest Showman group takes the ninety minutes, mostly because the finale deserves a second run. Room hire is the only thing added on, quoted before you decide, and there is nothing to add if we come to your hotel. Some groups ask for a greatest showman dance class hen party, some for a Blackpool greatest showman dance hen party. Same session, same flat price.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- Greatest Showman 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 Greatest Showman routine built around the numbers your group loves
- Stomp-and-clap taught first, so the room is loud within minutes
- Wide unison arms drilled until everyone lands together
- A ring formation, if the space and the group suit it
- A ringmaster moment for the bride, as big as she will allow
- A last full run set up to be filmed
Perfect for
- Big groups who want everyone doing the same thing at once
- A bride who cries at that one song and knows she does
- Weekends looking for a hen party activity nobody has to be good at
- Parties with grandmothers, teenagers and everyone in between
- Anyone who wants the video to sound as good as it looks
- Blackpool afternoons that need filling before the evening starts
Roughly the shape
Ninety minutes under the big top.
It starts with rhythm rather than steps: a stomp-and-clap pattern the whole room picks up in about a minute, which does more for the nerves than any amount of encouragement. The arms go on next, then the choreographer stacks phrases eight counts at a time, looping each until the back of the room is as confident as the front. Because so much of it is unison, progress is obvious, and groups tend to work out quite early that they are going to pull this off.
The second half opens the shape out. The group moves into a ring, the bride takes the middle if she is up for it, and the chorus goes on at full volume for a proper run-through. Ninety minutes buys a second run for the cameras and a group photograph at the end, which is usually the one that gets printed. Take it as the shape the session usually takes rather than a guaranteed order; the split is judged on the day, in the room, with your group.
What happened next
What the ringmasters told us.
Nineteen of us stamping and clapping in a function room off the Prom. You could hear us in the corridor and I am not remotely sorry.
The bride went in the middle and absolutely loved it, which nobody predicted. She had sworn blind she would not.
Twenty-four people and it still looked tidy by the end. That is the bit that impressed me.
Loud, daft, brilliant. Book it.
Good to know
Greatest Showman, answered.
ICan we pick which Greatest Showman numbers go in?
The big chorus numbers do most of the work, because they are the ones everybody can sing while moving, and the finale usually goes to whichever one the bride names. Put her favourite in the enquiry. Nothing is promised in advance and the running order comes together in the room.
IIDo we need top hats for the Greatest Showman class?
Just for the photos, if at all. Costumes, props and shoes are not part of what we provide, so hats, tails and anything red comes out of your own luggage. The dancing itself is best done in leggings and trainers, whatever you have on over the top.
IIIIs the Greatest Showman routine suitable for a big group?
It is arguably the best theme we teach for a big one. The choreography is unison-led, so more people simply makes it louder and better, and the price stays flat whether there are ten of you or thirty. Very large groups usually want the ninety minutes rather than the hour.
IVCan the bride be the ringmaster?
Yes, and most brides end up wanting to be, even the ones who said otherwise. She takes the centre while the group circles her, for as long or as short a moment as she likes. If she would rather stay in the line, that is fine as well — it is her dance hen party.
VIs this a good hen party idea if half of us cannot dance?
It is one of the best for exactly that reason. Unison choreography hides an enormous amount, the steps are big rather than fiddly, and the stomp-and-clap section needs no dance experience whatsoever. Most groups are surprised how quickly the room starts looking coordinated.
VIWhat is the Blackpool venue for the Greatest Showman class?
The default is the function room we hire on Hornby Road (FY1 4RD), handy for the Winter Gardens and only a walk from the Promenade and the station. Details of the room land with your booking. Big groups often prefer their own hotel function room, apartment or holiday let, and we are glad to travel — along the front and out along the Fylde coast.