Exams – October 2013
Final dates for Exams... Sunday 29th September - Mock exam day. Children should attend as per their examination day, in full exam kit please. All children need to be at MTC 15mins before their exam time. Saturday 5th October - Final Practice Lessons 1.30 – 3pm – Grade...
Mushroom Website integrates with Facebook
All new posts on the Mushroom website will also be shown automatically on our Facebook Page. You should now be able to login to post on the MTC website using Facebook, and the comments will be connected too. Clever stuff.... if it works (which the real reason for this...
Welcome back….
A new term, and a new website - though right now the website updates are barely noticeable. Rest assured, if you're reading this then you're on the new site, where all the latest news will be posted. More coming VERY soon....
Classes Starting Again
A note to all that Classes start back on 2nd September. Hope everyone has had a lovely summer break and look forward to seeing all the old faces as well as some new ones in the new term.
Summer Holiday Workshops
The summer holidays are just around the corner. MTC have got some exciting new workshops coming up. _________________________________________________________________________ The Gruffalo Arts and story telling day. Tuesday 30th July Spend the day making beautiful...
Dance Exams Updates!!
LETTER FROM PENNI "Dear All DANCE EXAMS I am in the process of booking the dates for the examinations in the Autumn term. The Modern and Tap exams will take place at Mushroom on either: Sun 6th or Sun 13th October these are the dates I have requested, but we have to...
Charlotte Wins Award
Mushroom Theatre's much loved Charlotte Spink-Hart won an award last week at the Rayleigh Town Councils Annual Town Meeting. The event awarded various local individuals for their successes and achievements. Charlotte received and won the award for High Achiever...
Summer Showcase
SUMMER SHOWCASE SUNDAY 7TH JULY HULLBRIDGE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB I have had real problems finding a suitable theatre to do a summer show and so I have decided to do a smaller scale showcase. A chance to show the students work in a relaxed ‘Cabaret’ style setting. ...
News – April 2013
Hello Everyone Welcome back everyone to what should be the ‘Summer’ term. What a winter its been, I am proud to say though we only had to cancel classes once due to the snow and I want to thank you all for getting to classes and for putting up with the cold! Lots of...
Latest Fundraising
Brighton Marathon Charlotte, or Benny as we call her, is running the Brighton Marathon next week to raise money for our charity Equal People. She has been training really hard and we wish her all the best. Please help us by sponsoring Benny at her just giving page:...
Olly Pike – Fantastic Success & Search For A Blue Peter Presenter
Olly Pike is an old student of mine from Fitz and he has been in the West End Show ‘We Will Rock You’, CBBC’s Trapped and is now with the Dora the Explorer touring production. He recently came down to Mushroom to run some workshops and help out with PALS and everybody...
Evoke Dance Experience
Evoke Dance Experience We’d love to say a huge “Well Done” to the girls we took to the Evoke Dance Experience in March at Evoke nightclub in Chelmsford. Eight of the senior girls performed and received a GOLD medal. This a long running comp that I used to take CODE to...
London 2012 – One Year On
Dear Students and Parents LONDON 2012 – ONE YEAR ON COMMUNITY YOUTH DANCE AND DRAMA PROJECTS As part of the local celebrations of ‘London 2012 One Year’ on, we have been asked to develop two community youth performing groups. One Dance and one Drama, in the spirit of...
Easter Holiday Events & Activities
The Easter holiday is on its way and Mushroom Theatre is ready with a host of activities. Activites are all 5yrs plus. Thursday 4th April Grease Day - 10am till 3pm - £15.00 Spend the day making up a dance, singing the song and acting out the story of Grease the...
Olly Pike
Olly Pike from CBBC’s ‘Trapped’, The West Ends ‘We Will Rock You’ and the touring production of ‘Dora The Explorer’ is coming to MTC to run two workshop days..... Saturday 2nd March 2013 2pm – 4pm Dora the Explorer workshop Ages 4-7yrs Cost: £5.00 Sunday 3rd March...
January News
In December we had a Quiz Night at MTC and raised a fantastic £750, thank you to everyone who came and made this possible – we are hoping to put this money towards a new dance floor. Recycling: As you may already know we have been doing various recycling activities at...
Christmas News!
During the last week of term (week commencing 19th December) we would like to invite you to watch your children's classes. You can watch all or just some of the classed for a donation in our charity jar. We are also having a Christmas Party on Saturday 22nd December...
Shake, Shake, Shake The Bucket
Well Done to the MTC team that attended the Cliffs Pavilion theatre in Southend-on-Sea, three nights running. Your attendance, bucket shaking and the generosity of those who were out for the evening helped us to collect a whopping £1,710.00. Huge thank you to the...
CAN you help with fundraising?
Dont throw away your aluminum cans, bring them to us and we'll turn them into cash for our good cause. Next time you're down at Mushroom, why not drop off your used cans, they are recycled locally and as a charity we are paid for them. The more cans we can take, the...
Men’s Health Survival Of The Fittest
On Saturday 17th November - a group from MTC will be heading to Battersea to run a 10k Obstacle Course around the town. As well as tackling the 10k run, along they way they will be faced with climbing over bales of hay, through muds pits and skips filled with ice....
The RRAVS Awards
On the evening of Wednesday 29th May 2012 a host of MTC volunteers recieved awards from Rayleigh, Rochford and District Association for Voluntary Service (RRAVS.) We would like to say a huge congratulations and a big thank you to our winners: Pat Mitchell, Beth...
Southend Business Award
MTC were awarded the Southend Business of the Yeart Award. At a star studded ceremony held locally, the MTC crew were deemed winners of the prestigious business award.
MP Congratulates MTC on Great Performance
Rayleigh and Wickford MP, Mark Francois, has offered congratulations to the Mushroom Theatre Company following a performance of their latest show, which took place at Seevic College in Benfleet in late July. The performance included a variety of musical numbers,...
Sparks Will Fly Hockley Woods Procession
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHCLWljif1c&w=560&h=315] Check out the officil video of the day and see clips of MTC as they performed a processional dance for Boreas at Hockley Woods. It was a fantastic day of fun, games, dance and celebration. We...
Mushroom Students Blitz Exams
Hugh Congratulations to all the dance and drama students who took their exams this year. All mushroom students passed the professionally accredited exams and we couldn't be prouder. Well done guys! Keep up the hard work!
MTC Quiz Night – May 2012
The latest quiz night was a great success; raising over £450 which was generously matched by the Rayleigh Branch of Barclays Bank, giving us a grand total of over £900!! All who attended were put to the test mentally by Quiz Master Paul Mitchell who had kindly put a...
Arctic Trek Raises £3000 for Mushroom
Some people choose to run marathons for charity. Others sit in baths of baked beans, while for some, its enough simply to rattle a tin the local high street. Donna Adams had her sights set on something rather more spectacular when she decided to help the...
SkyOne’s Got To Dance
3 Gold stars and standing ovation for MTC [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pyEkLZ4Yk] MTC - The Mushroom Theatre Company were awarded three gold stars from the judges of Got to Dance 2012 and the audience gave a standing ovation after the MTC's performance...
Britain’s Got Talent Audition
In January 2012 MTC headed up to London again, this time to audition for the producers of Britains Got Talent.
MTC Triumph Over Carnival Vandals
The MTC Carnival float was trashed by vandals the night before the parade destroying the weeks of work put in by the MTC team. Read the Southend Standard article about the attack.
Penni Bubb – Citizen Of The Year
The local council rewards residents for their work in the community. In 2010 they named penni bubb citizen of the year for her work with MTC. Read the Evening Echo report of the night.