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The Three Waiters

The Unique Concept
The Three Waiters involves three talented performers hoaxing and infiltrating your event as ‘real’ waiting staff.  The Three Waiters is not a “wacky waiters” but in fact, quite the opposite.  The show provides sophisticated, high quality entertainment made up of some of the best performers that opera and music theatre have to offer.

User Friendly
The structure and content of The Three Waiters suits a wide spectrum of audience tastes by taking away the seriousness often associated with opera and adding an element of fun, spontaneity and surprise.  With repertoire consisting of arias made famous by ‘The Three Tenors’ along with well-known songs from popular musicals, The Three Waiters has proven equally successful to audiences of football players, auto- mechanics through to the most discerning opera buffs, high-end corporate executives and Heads of State.

Surprise
Subtly, the performers infiltrate the function.  They work as waiters and are dressed the same as the other waiters.  The audience is given no clue of what is to come. Over a period of time, to the surprise of the guests, an unexpected story unfolds taking the audience through a very amusing, sophisticated show a la “The Three Tenors”.

Easily Customised
Be it a dinner party of twelve guests or a ballroom of two thousand, the structure of the show along with the vast repertoire and experience of each of the performers allows the act to be easily customised to suit your particular requirements.

Performance Requirements
A performance of the Three Waiters can be easily customised to suit any size event. Depending on the size, sometimes appropriate staging and lighting is needed.  The performers sing to pre-recorded backing tracks (on CD) and use hand held radio microphones so a PA system is also required.

To help us obtain the highest standards during the performance, we require the following:

We need to know:
• Location of the event. Special entrance etc.

• Catering contacts for uniforms and coordination of performance times.
• Running order of event - meal times, speeches, awards etc.
• Nature of event (e.g. product launch, awards dinner, anniversary, Christmas, cocktails etc.)
• Specific requests or thematic considerations.
 

Changing Area / Meals
A suitable area is required with basic refreshments.
Three meals required directly after the performance.

Production
The level of suitable stage and lighting requirements can be evaluated for each individual event.  The majority of venues also require a sound system.  This is normally provided by the client, but can however be organised through us If necessary.  Production requirements are as follows: Suitable PA System to suit venue; Reverb unit; CD player; Three handheld radio microphones; Plus one microphone stand.  Follow-spots are sometimes required for audiences over 120.

Uniforms
It is important as part of the act that we dress the same as the other waiters at the event.  We supply our own black trousers, black shoes and white shirt.  Any additional waiters apparel needs to be organised through the specific caterer or banquet supervisor for the event.

Performance Fees
An essential part of the performance is to convince the guests beforehand that we are “real waiters”. This involves mixing with the audience and hoaxing as waiters before the actual ‘show” begins.  For this reason, fees are reflective of the number of guests.  It is much easier to infiltrate a function of 50 than say, 150.  Fees are inclusive of rehearsal and production/sound checks.

Overnight Performances

Where applicable, flights and accommodation need to be provided by the client .