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| AOC/PL001 | CLOUDCUCKOOLAND/OP PRODUCTION Cloudcuckooland is a music theatre comedy for kids and their families. It's riotous, funny and a touch irreverent, but carries a serious message about not messing up the planet. It's performed by six actor musicians who play twenty-two instruments between them; the musicianship is stunning and a great inspiration for kids. It was created in the Spring of 2008 with an initial one-off grant from the Onassis Programme and toured the UK, then played for a month at the Edinburgh Festival. It got excellent reviews, much feature coverage and was nominated for the Total Theatre Awards. The Observer picked it in its top seven pieces of theatre at the Edinburgh Festival from thousand of shows. Most importantly, for the company, it has fabulous feedback from kids, parents and teachers. The story follows an attempt by the birds to take revenge on humans for trashing their habitats. It features a gallery of beautiful and hilarious bird characters (the trombone-playing flamingo on stilts, and the trumpeting dodo with his zimmer frame) and culminates in the chickens trying to roast Gordon Brown for Sunday lunch unless he agrees to their climate change demands. The whole project aims to be ecologically sound and practice the message it preaches, but with with wit and humility. The company was helped in the creation of the show by a number of organisations, from the RSPB to the Carbon Trust. Many programmers from the UK and worldwide saw the show in Edinburgh and want to book it. One commented: 'I just wanted to say how impressed I was with Cloudcuckooland in Edinburgh. I thought it was unique, exciting and streets ahead of all the other children's shows at the Fringe'. The company would love to take the show to more kids around the UK and the world (together with a programme of workshops and participation events). However, they need a sponsor to be able to do that. They envisage this will be a company whose priorities are children getting involved in music and the arts and/or spreading a message of ecological responsibility in a fun way. The company can • Put the sponsors name and logo on all print, adverts, press releases, mailings, posters, etc. • distribute flyers/product samples with their mailings and at events • have display material in foyers • include adverts in their programme • host the sponsor's guests, with complementary tickets and entertainment opportunities • and be extremely grateful! The project is managed by Helen Eastman at OP Production Ltd.. Helen has a strong track record in producing and managing large scale arts events and UK and international touring. "We have raised a proportion of funds needed from donations (donors include Dame Judy Dench and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney) but need to secure £10,000 of sponsorship. We hope to find a great working relationship with a new sponsor". Further information, a selection of photos and reviews and examples of previous print and programmes are available on request. Contact: Helen Eastman. Address: 17 Shorts Gardens, London WC2H 9AT. Tel.: 07770 277812 or 020 7836 6798. E-mail: helen.eastman@classics.ox.ac.uk
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| AOC/PL002 |  THEATRE PRODUCTIONS LIMITED Sponsorship packages associated with the shows offered by Theatre Productions Limited represent exceptionally good value, with extensive brand promotion to their audiences and beyond, as well as VIP corporate hospitality options. All the shows have proven popular, with up to six successful previous tours. Sponsorship funding will allow the company to increase its external promotion to the public, drawing in bigger audiences, all the while promoting the sponsor's brand. The company has five shows touring large and medium venues across the UK and Ireland, appealing to different demographic groups and reaching annual audiences from 15,000 to 144,000. Potential sponsors can choose which show is the best fit for their brand image and objectives. Theatre Productions Ltd is one of the UK's leading production companies, with combined experience of over a hundred years of producing first class shows. Sponsorship packages are available from £7,500. "Make your brand part of a hundred great nights out". Contact: Steve Hood, Partnerships Manager. Address: Linton House, 1 High Street, Linton, Derbyshire DE12 6QL. Tel.: 079 30319790. E-mail: steve@outlinks.co.uk. link to website Current opportunities
Christmas Crooners
Over the Rainbow
The Naked Truth
Viennese Strauss Gala
The Extra Factor
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| AOC/PL003 |  THE WIRELESS THEATRE COMPANY The Wireless Theatre Company offers the opportunity to sponsor a new online audio theatre company, producing audio drama, comedy, sketches, short stories and more, to be downloaded directly from the site to listeners iPods, MP3 players, mobile phones or computer desktops. The company is rapidly growing and the website is receiving more and more hits every day. As it grows it reaches an even wider audience - both the younger iPod generation and older lovers of the traditional radio play. The beauty of The Wireless Theatre Company is that it is visited by all kinds of people, including theatre lovers but also those who simply wish to listen to a stimulating play whilst at the gym, or at work, or on the Tube. The Wireless Theatre Company has links all over the world and, since its launch last year, has had well over a million hits and a very large download rate! Sponsors can not only be featured on the website itself, but also on each download, thus reaching a very large audience. Contact: Mariele Runacre Temple, Artistic Director. Tel.: 07931 168911. Fax: 020 7244 7032. E-mail: info@wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk link to website
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| AOC/001 | BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME Birmingham Hippodrome has presented the best in entertainment, opera and ballet, dance, comedy and drama for the people of the West Midlands and beyond since 1899. It welcomes 500,000 visitors each year, making it the busiest single theatre in the UK. It is also one of the top five paid-for visitor attractions in the region and one of the top twenty in the UK. 70% of its audience comes from outside Birmingham and of those nearly half come from outside the West Midlands. As a registered charity and independent theatre trust not in receipt of any regular or direct public subsidy, support from the business community is crucial to the organisation to maintain its excellent facilities, to continue to attract acclaimed companies and repertoire from across the world and to implement a vital education and access programme. "We would welcome sponsorship and are happy to discuss the opportunities available". Contact: Hannah Hallam, Development Manager, Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Development Trust, Hurst Green, Birmingham, B5 4TB. Tel.: 0121 689 3082. Fax: 0121-689-3086. E-mail: hannahhallam@birminghamhippodrome.com link to website
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| AOC/002 | ENCORE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS Encore Theatre Productions will be staging the hit off-Broadway comedy musical "I Love You, You're Perfect ... Now Change!" in February 2012 for a week long run in London. In the second-longest running off-Broadway show of all time, a small cast of comedy actors examine the hilarious journey of life's romantic relationships, from the very first date, to marriage and bringing up a family, to growing old together disgracefully! Sponsors for "I Love You, You're Perfect ... Now Change!" will have generous programme and poster placements, plus hospitality options during the show itself, including guest seating and opportunities to meet the cast and musicians. Encore Theatre Productions are looking for small investors, who would like to sponsor this artistic comedy endeavour for between £500 and £1,000. Sponsorship is needed in order to pay for up front royalties, theatre hire and public liability insurance. "Do get in touch if you would like to discuss our venture further!" Contact: Gareth Cheesman. Address: 31 Nursery Fields, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire CM21 0DH. Tel.: 07989586906. E-mail: gareth.cheesman@gmail.com.
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| AOC/003 | KEV F PRESENTS THE SITCOM TRIALS Contact: Kev F. Sutherland, Producer. Address: PO Box 48, Clevedon, Bristol BS21 7LQ. Tel.: 01275 872111. E-mail: kevf@sitsvac.org. Text: 07931 810858. link to website
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| AOC/004 | LAUGHING HORSE COMEDY Laughing Horse Comedy is seeking sponsorship for its stand up comedy and cabaret nights run in eight London venues, which are focussed on helping to develop new comedy talent from around the capital. A wide range of sponsorship opportunities are available through its venues, advertising and website. The organisation have been bringing stand-up comedy and entertainment to London and the south east since 1998 at a series of friendly stand-up comedy venues, which are enjoyed by both comedians and audience alike. The group also organise comedy shows, acts and events for private functions, and most of its venues are available for private bookings every night of the week. Contact: Alex Petty. Tel.: 01264 772850. E-mail: info@laughinghorse.co.uk link to website
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| AOC/005 | LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL A range of sponsorship opportunities are available, to suit particular branding requirements, audience profiles and budgets. Opportunities include title sponsorship, being a main sponsor or sponsoring a theme or series of events (eg sponsoring the festival's theatre or stand-up programmes). Contact: Delphine Manley, Festival Manager. Address: Leicester Comedy Festival, City Rooms, Hotel Street, Leicester LE3 6HN. Tel.: 0116-291-5511. Fax: 0116-291-5510. E-mail: sponsorship@comedy-festival.co.uk. link to website
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| AOC/006 | MISSING PIECES Missing Pieces is an original theatre show - a play encompassing ballroom dancing, jive and Hollywood tap in the style of Eleanor Powell, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. "We are showing a two week fully-rehearsed development workshop, with top class dance routines choreographed by Richard Marcel of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, Let's Dance and The Royal Variety Show. Consultant is Carole Todd who has Dreamboats and Petticoats in the West End and is a veteran of theatre, TV and film - and even Morecombe and Wise! We will cast West End performers. We are seeking sponsors for the Missing Pieces Development Workshop - we need to raise £10,000. We had a semi-staged reading at Live Theatre, Newcastle and are showing the rehearsed development workshop with full dance routines to producers and interested parties on June 29th, 2012 at The Curtain Theatre, The Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6AB. Missing Pieces is based on a true story of The Hauxwell Family of Darlington. It could be 'any family, any time, any place'. They lived through the Great Depression, the Second World War through to the '10 quid tourists" of the Sixties. This is a show for all the family, where dialogue turns into the fantasy of a full-on Hollywood tap routine or exquisite ballroom dance or comedy routine. Missing Pieces is an epic and ambitious show which deals with some of the hardest challenges that people face in life - such as death, disability, money problems and other pressures that they face when members of the family fall out. However - the play is darkly funny and they face all adversity with great strength and humour. Please contact Graham to discuss how we can tailor sponsorship to your requirements or for more information. And please see our website for further details (via the link below)". Contact: Graham Howes, Artistic Director. Address: 3 Riverside Cottages, Cattawade, Manningtree CO11 1QL. Tel.: 0787 5720623. E-mail: grahamhowes1@talktalk.net link to website
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| AOC/007 | NATURAL THEATRE COMPANY Indoor and outdoor comic-visual theatre. Contact Helen Chamberlain, General Manager, Natural Theatre Company, Widcombe Institute, Widcombe Hill, Bath, BA2 6AA. Tel.: 01225-469131. Fax: 01225-442555. E-mail: info@naturaltheatre.co.uk link to website
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| AOC/008 | NEWCASTLE GATESHEAD COMEDY FESTIVAL Tel. 0790 555 1641. E-mail: info@growlingclown.com link to website
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| AOC/009 | THE OTHER SIDE COMEDY CLUB North Yorkshire's most successful comedy club is looking to expand, and is seeking a sponsor with whom to forge close links. After a first year of continual sell-out shows, The Other Side Comedy Club wishes to increase its number of performances, so as to accommodate some of the thousands of people who have rung up for tickets only to be disappointed. The company's advertising reaches over 50,000 people regionally, many mailed directly. Contact: Dan Atkinson, Promoter. Address: 13-17 Coney Street, York. E-mail: theother.side@ntlworld.com link to website
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| AOC/010 | PENNY PLAIN THEATRE COMPANY Penny Plain Theatre Company is a Yorkshire Dales based touring company which performs high energy comedy from a travelling replica of a Victorian fairground theatre booth. They adapt Yorkshire tales and history and present it in the guise of "Malvolio Hardcastle's Mighty Excelsior Theatre", a troupe of disreputable down-and-out players trying to put on a play. The company has just finished a tour of "Black-hearted Evil" about the ghosts of Bolton Priory, and is starting rehearsals for a winter melange of songs, dances and mummery. Next year's summer production is "The Entire History of the North": chaos and mayhem as ever, but with a serious underlying aim of retelling some of Yorkshire's heritage. The company's unique shows have proved astonishingly successful, and they are in a position where they need to expand to cope with all the bookings. "We attract large crowds, but as this is street theatre, we are always seeking sponsorship to supplement our income. In return, we will mention you in the performance, display your sign and acknowledge you in our publicity material and the well-produced leaflets we distribute at performances. We can tailor a sponsorship package completely to your wishes. You are welcome to ask for one of our short promotional DVDs or to talk to us - we're friendly - and fun!" Contact: Mrs Angela Jackson, Company Manager. Address: Coach House, Hardy Grange, Grassington, North Yorks. BD23 5AJ. Tel.: 01756 752695. Fax: 01756 753099. E-mail: thespians@pennyplaintheatre.co.uk link to website
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