Kevin Hayes

Magic

                  He has been performing as a stand up comedy magician since          1982.

Credits include:

• Resident magician at the Bridge House Restaurant, Reigate.
• Magician at Bill Wyman’s restaurant Sticky Fingers.
• Performing magic on capital radio... Well that’s what they wanted!
• Not to be a name dropper but when he was working with Kylie & Danny Minogue he told   them he has also worked with Barbara Windsor, Richard O’Brien to name a few.
• Not a court jester but he has also enjoyed doing magic for the King of Arabia and his entourage.
• He has written and compeered many quiz nights and always with a magic flair.
• He has worked as a Comedy Auctioneer at many events for corporate and charity companies.

The types of Magic he performs are.

• Close up & Table Hopping at Parties, Weddings or Restaurants.
• Corporate events.
• Product Launches.
• Cabaret.
• Children’s Show, Balloon Modeling.
• Work shops Teaching Magic.
• Compeer & Auctioneer.

Acting

Over the past 25 years Kevin has played many parts in plays and musical theater played kids, cats, dogs, idiots, drunks, comedians with pathos & sadistic psychopathic killers.  The tall good looking romantic lead still eludes me, I wonder why? !!  Yes all right I know I'm short and strange looking.

Theatre Credits:

Barnum (Barnum), The Cat in The Hat (Seussical), Mickey (Blood Brothers),

Kipps (Half A Sixpence), Snoopy (Snoopy),  Bill (Me & My Girl), Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors) George M. Cohen (Yankee Doodle Dandy), Tobias (Sweeny Todd), Linus (Snoopy), Pilot & Herald (J.C. Superstar), Samuel (Pirates of Penzance), Mendel (Fiddler on the Roof).

Other shows have included;

Closer Then Ever, They’re Playing Our Song, Mikado, The Browning Version,

Film & TV

Kevin was in some comedy thing on ITV to do with train spotting but he insists although it was his own bobble hat and binoculars he is not a train spotter.

He was also in a short film playing the stupid Detective in a comedy drama

Other Skills:

Tight Rope Walking, Juggling, Balloon Modeling, Stilt walking, Baton Twirling, Comedy acrobatics & Drunk Slapstick Act.

Dancing

Somehow Kevin was asked to join The Dance Cabaret group "High Society." They needed a partner for the Girl with two right legs. He said "We had a number of interesting engagements one of which was at the Fairfield Halls with Don MacLean We were the cabaret for a beauty contest  and fashion show where we were the troop of dancers modeling the latest fashions... They had to turn up all the legs on my trousers."

Directing

He has directed a number of shows and sketches over the years but always prefers to be on stage.

Drama teaching

Along with another actor he ran a drama club and produced a many shows. He was then asked to teach drama at Grey’s School of Dancing which he did for 2 years.

Theatre Technical

Kevin has Stage Managed many shows at the Epsom Play House, set design and had his own prop

making company for a while making props, sometimes using his knowledge of Magic for special effects.

Wayne Trice

Magic

He has been performing comedy magician since 1985

Credits include:

·            Barclays Bank Conference performing for nearly 300 of top management. 

·            As Chairman in number of Old Time Music Halls.

The types of Magic he performs are.

·        Close up & Table Hopping at Parties, Weddings or Restaurants.

·        Corporate events.

·        Product Launches.

·        Cabaret.

·        Children's Show.

·        Work shops Teaching Magic.

·        Compere & Auctioneer.

Acting

Wayne has performed in a variety of plays and pantomimes over approximately 15 years, with roles as diverse as a 50 year old retired army major, to one of the babes in "Babes in the Wood". Although he enjoys all genres of plays his favorites are pantomimes - which after he joined always included a "Magic spot"

Theatre Credits:

Borden (Plaza Suite), Edmund Swettingham (A Murder is Announced), Stanley Gardner (Run for your Wife), Simon Mostyn (Murder on the Nile), Robert (Don't Dress for Dinner),  Perchick (Fiddler on the Roof), Will Parker (Oklahoma!), Samuel (Pirates of Penzance), Noah Claypole and Chorus (Oliver!), Cowardly Lion (Wizard of Oz), Nicely, Nicely Johnstone (Guys and Dolls), Parchester (Me and My Girl), Sid (Half a Sixpence).

His most memorable moment though has to be getting the chance to sing "Bui Doi" from "Miss Saigon" in the Fairfield Halls concert hall with choir backing and a full 60 piece orchestra.

Directing

He also stepped off the stage and directed two thrillers Blood Money & Dead Guilty

In 2007 he will be directing a Who done it?

          Theatre Technical

In for the Kill (Stage Manager), Daisy Pulls it Off (Lighting Design), Diary of Anne And Then There Were None (Lighting Design), Bedroom Farce (Lighting Design).

Frank (Lighting Design) & Rebecca (Sound).

Alex Murphy

Magic

He has been performing magician since 1990

Credits include:

·          Since then he has been performing at various different levels in Pubs and Bars,       

      principally around the UK.

·          Alex has acted as compere for numerous events.

·          He has worked as an Auctioneer in fundraising events in venues ranging in size        from 50 people up to 500.

·          He has compiled and run many different quiz nights, with or without themes!

The types of Magic he performs are.

·      Close Up & Table Hopping at Parties, Weddings or Restaurants.

·      Corporate events.

·      Product Launches.

·      Cabaret.

·      Work shops Teaching Magic.

·      Compeer & Auctioneer.

Theatre Credits:

Sir John Tremayne (Me and My Girl); Chitterlow (Half a Sixpence); Snug (A midsummer Nights Dream); Larry (Company); Pawnee Bill (Annie Get Your Gun); Eddie (A Slice of  Saturday Night); Amos Scudder (Barnum); Lt Ward, Judge Brandeis, Masked Announcer (Annie); Mendel (Fiddler on the Roof).

Other shows have included; the Broadway version of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Hello Dolly, Crazy for You, The Hot Mikado.

Film

A Voyage around my Father

Other Skills:

Juggling

Directing

Philomena, Mixed Doubles & Notability.

Theatre Technical

The Wizard of Oz (Stage Manager), Oliver! (Stage Manager)

Rebecca (Lighting Design), Annie Get Your Gun (Lighting Design); Cabaret (Lighting Design);  The Winslow Boy (Lighting Design)  Charles Aunt (Lighting Design.)

Bugsy Malone (Sound);