Chicago The Musical - Samantha Peach Competition!

We're dying to see photos of you in your masks on your Big Night so we're offering 2 tickets to see Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre in London on 9th January 2010, (the perfect tonic to the post-Christmas slump!), to the person who sends in the best snap before 3rd Jan.


Just email us pictures or post them on our Facebook Page to be in with a chance.


Our Head of Production Beth went to see it last month and we've not been able to shut her up about it since!  Take it away Beth......


With only a single row of people sitting between us and the dazzling production that is Chicago, it felt like we were literally singing and tapping our feet along with them. On a weekend trip to London, I went to see Chicago in London's Cambridge theatre and I've been addicted ever since.

If you're curious to know what the storyline is, imagine a nightclub sensation female act that goes by the name of Velma Kelly, who clashes with a spotlight-seeking girl called Roxy Hart.. Both desperate to see their names splashed across newspapers and to hear the adoration of their fans.  Except the only man to help them is Mister Billy Flynn, a high-flying lawyer who can transform the most unworthy criminal into a celebrity...but after their crimes of passion and spell in jail, which one will get that stardom...and how?

Chicago has certainly been a success on screen, but to sit in such a charming theatre whilst talented actors and dancers perform metres away from your eyes is incredible.  It also made me quite envious, not just because they could do the usual of acting, singing and dancing, but because they made it seem authentic and they captured the story and mood perfectly, inviting us, the audience to live in that story too.

In my eyes, there isn't a single reason why anybody shouldn't see this production, what with the singing, the atmosphere, the costume (or lack of it some cases), the passion, the acting, the choreography, the orchestra and the stage-set itself, it's what a musical should be...and let's not forget the main element...all that jaaaaazz!!

Beth Shipley

www.SamanthaPeachMasks.com

Christmas Parties Past and Present at Samantha Peach Masquerade Maskss..

Works Christmas Parties were a mystery to me for a long time, self employed for many years I not only worked from home but completely on my own too, so was always madly jealous of friends with their Christmas bashes, some seemed to spend the whole of December rolling from one corporate Jolly to the next, whilst I sat up in my workroom with a mince pie and party hat on..

Things started to look up when Martin came on board, and our first proper Christmas Company Party was at a Burlesque night with some friends who'd also helped get Samantha Peach rolling that year..

It was the perfect end to the mayhem we have at Christmas, we run around like headless chickens making sure everyone who is going to a Christmas Masquerade Party or Company Masked Ball has the perfect mask to go with their outfit, that all the Bosses who decide last minute to make the Christmas Dinner Dance a Masquerade Event CAN get 300 masks delivered by the NEXT DAY ( true story!) and so after hundreds of calls about other peoples Big Bashes we're VERY ready for our own..

We had a grand old time at the very first Samantha Peach Christmas Party, and for me on my first own Christmas Party?..well I had a BALL..

This year there's a whopping SIX of us for the Samantha Peach Studio Christmas Do ( how times change..)and we're all going to be very up for it by the time it's here - if you happen to be out and about in Nottingham on the 18th December and you see a wild-eyed bunch trailing glitter and feathers, come and say Hello!

You can read more about our Money-Saving tips for Christmas Masquerade Parties and Balls here

Whatever you're doing for YOUR Office Party or Works Do this Christmas 2009, we wish you a shameless, glorious, brilliant One from all of us at Samantha Peach