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SIX the Musical Hen Party Dance Class Sheffield
A SIX the Musical hen party dance class in Sheffield, inspired by the show rather than connected to it: sharp pop-concert staging, six queens' worth of attitude and a featured moment for anyone who wants one. One of our choreographers runs it, the room is a studio we hire in the city centre, and the fee never moves with numbers: £175 buys the ninety-minute workshop for everyone present, £150 buys the hour.
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Musical-theatre themes are among the quickest to fill their Saturday slots once the wedding season starts. Send an approximate date and a rough headcount and we'll reply with availability, the room and the whole cost together.
A Sheffield hen party partway through the workshopWhere the class happens
Two rooms we hire in Sheffield city centre, or we come to you.
- Bailey Street, S1 4EHHired studio near West Street and the Devonshire Quarter
- Surrey Street, S1 2LGHired room beside the Peace Gardens and the Crucible
- Your own venueHouse, cottage or hotel space across Sheffield and the Peaks — clear the floor and we travel to you
Why SIX works so well
Six queens means six people at the front.
Most themes on our hen party dance class list have one spotlight and one bride standing in it. This one is structurally different, because the show it takes its cue from is built around six women taking turns to run the stage — so the choreography naturally makes room for several featured moments instead of a single solo. In practice that means the hens who love attention get somewhere to put it, the ones who don't can hold a strong group shape at the back, and nobody has to negotiate for either. The style itself is pop-concert rather than theatre: clean lines, sharp hands, chin up, plenty of hitting a shape and holding it.
You do not need exactly six of you, and you do not need anyone who can sing. Larger parties get split into queen groups; smaller ones simply share the featured spots around. The choreographer usually starts with the posture and the hand shapes, adds a chorus section everybody performs in unison, then builds the pass-the-spotlight sequence that gives the routine its shape. Ruffs, corsets, sashes and anything vaguely Tudor are your group's to organise, since we don't supply costumes, props or shoes. Which numbers from the score the session leans on gets decided with your party on the day, never promised beforehand. Groups torn between shows often compare it with our broader musicals class, or with Wicked for something with more sweep and less strut.
It is a strong pick for a hen party of theatre lovers, for work friends who need levelling before the evening, and for any bride who has seen the show and been quietly rehearsing ever since. Sheffield suits it too — a theatre city with the Crucible and the Lyceum a few minutes from the studio, so a matinee-and-workshop afternoon is an easy plan. A fair few hens carry the habit home and join one of our weekly dance classes afterwards.
Included, no extras per head
What the whole group receives for £175.
Ninety minutes is what nearly every musical-theatre party books, and venue hire is the only thing that sits on top of the flat fee. We source the room, quote it, and get your agreement before anything is booked.
What's included
- Professional dance instructor
- SIX the Musical 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 SIX-inspired routine assembled around the numbers your group knows best
- Pop-concert posture and hand shapes taught before any footwork arrives
- Featured moments shared out, so more than one person gets a turn at the front
- Group sections that look strong whether there are eight of you or twenty-eight
- A choreographer who quietly moves the nervous ones somewhere they feel safe
- A full performance run at the end, staged so it films well from one angle
Perfect for
- A bride who came out of the theatre already planning her hen do
- Parties where two or three hens are desperate for a solo and the rest are not
- Work colleagues meeting the school friends for the first time
- Groups who want sharp and stylish rather than sweaty
- An afternoon before a show at the Crucible or the Lyceum
- Anyone who can quote the whole score and has never danced a step
How it unfolds
Posture, unison, spotlight, performance.
The opening stretch is about carriage rather than steps — standing tall, finding the shoulders, learning the two or three hand shapes the whole routine keeps returning to. It sounds dry and it is anything but, because the moment a room of hens starts holding themselves like they are headlining an arena the laughing begins. From there comes a unison chorus, taught in short repeats, that everybody performs together regardless of confidence level.
The second half is the part people book it for: the spotlight passes round, each featured hen steps forward for a few counts while the rest hold the shape behind her, and the bride takes the last one. Ninety minutes leaves time to place everyone properly, run the whole thing at performance pace, then do it again with phones up. How the featured spots are allocated and how long each section takes is settled in the room on the day with your group — the outline above is the usual shape of a session, not a fixed setlist.
Curtain down
The queens, after the crowns came off.
Three of the group wanted to be at the front and four absolutely did not, and somehow everybody got what they wanted. Cleverest ninety minutes of the weekend.
The bride has seen the show four times and spent the entire class grinning like a lunatic. That is all I needed from it, really.
We are all deeply unco-ordinated and it still looked sharp on video. No idea how.
Ten of us, one flat fee, six queens. Maths checks out.
SIX, answered
Before you book the SIX workshop.
1Is this run by or connected to SIX the Musical?
No. The class is inspired by the style and staging of the show and there is no affiliation, licence or endorsement behind it. We simply teach a pop-concert-flavoured hen party routine in that spirit.
2Do we need exactly six people in the group?
Not remotely. Bigger parties are split into queen groups who take the featured moments between them, and smaller parties just share the spotlights around. We have taught this to sevens and to twenty-fours with no change to the price.
3Does anybody have to sing in the SIX class?
Nobody sings a note unless they want to. This is a dance workshop, so the music does the singing and your group does the staging. In practice most of the room ends up mouthing along, which is a different matter entirely.
4Do we need queen costumes for the SIX class?
Something you can lift your arms and move in — leggings and trainers are ideal. If your party wants ruffs, corsets, crowns or sashes for the photographs, that is yours to arrange, as we don't supply costumes, props or shoes for any theme.
5How much does a SIX hen workshop cost for our group?
£175 flat for ninety minutes, or £150 flat for an hour, with the venue hire as the only addition. That figure covers the entire party whatever the headcount, so there is no per-person charge to work out.
6Where would our SIX class actually take place?
In a studio we hire in Sheffield city centre, walkable from the station and from the theatres, and we confirm exactly which one once the date is locked in. Both hired rooms are central: Bailey Street (S1 4EH) and Surrey Street (S1 2LG) — your confirmation carries the address for your date. If your group has rented a place with a decent open floor, in Sheffield or out towards the Peak District, we are happy to come to you instead.