Curated Entertainment is a boutique entertainment consulting company with the mission of working with event planners to create custom, cohesive and immersive entertainment that brings themes to vivid life.

Founders Heather Rogers and Velia Amarasingham
have been creating and performing original magic shows and themed music and dance productions respectively in the San Francisco Bay Area for a decade. Their esteemed client list includes Google, HP, PCMA, MPI and Oracle.

Comedy Retro Game Show with rounds of “Name That Tune”, “Let’s Make a Deal”, & “Family Feud” for #Slack, Intuit and Edwards Life-Sciences

1940s Golden Years of Hollywood Radio Show with rounds of “Truth or Consequences” for MPI (Meeting Professionals International)

Cabaret and Speakeasy theme with an interactive “Bootlegger Game” for Crystal Dynamics, the makers of Tomb Raider.

Here is an example of a customized opening song for a Masquerade Ball theme for the PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association) BMIE Awards Gala. Heather and Velia were also Emcee’s for this event.

Founders Heather Rogers and Velia Amarasingham

Contact: Heather Rogers
heather@heathermagic.com or 415-824-4220

Below are some examples of Event Proposals

Come to the Cabaret!

Objective

Bring the Cabaret theme to vivid life by inviting the Crystal Dynamics team to experience a titillating night in a "1930s" speakeasy, from the jazz, to the sultry performers, to the prohibited libations.

This wildly entertaining, original and interactive experience features Broadway caliber singing, mesmerizing magic, Fosse-inspired dance, custom audience participation, riveting, strolling characters, and much, much more... all leading up to a show-stopping finale!

Concept

It's the 1930s and cabaret is King, complete with jaunty jazz music, feather boas, hooch and dance, dance, dance!

At The Sea by Alexanders, the jive band is hopping and four, sassy, sequin-clad ladies are on hand to entertain and entice you to experience the intoxicating vaudeville era for yourself, throughout the venue:

Five phases of fanciful fun!

1) Anticipation: The day prior to the event, you receive an invitation to participate in a prohibition-themed, mission-driven game, igniting your curiosity and sense of adventure. 

2) Dolls, Dolls, Dolls: Doll-faced flappers greet and gab with you upon arrival, and throughout the evening.

3) Gin Kingpin Game: Wanna be the next Gin Kingpin of San Francisco? You gotta be in the game to win it!

4) Props & Poses: Time to leave your inhibitions at the door, accessorize like a star and strike a pose for your "money" shot. Ooh la la!

5) Life is a Cabaret! : Catch a cabaret performance featuring dazzling music, magic and comedy, then get on your feet for the grand finale.

The Gin Kingpin Game 

The biggest bootlegger in San Francisco has just been put in the clink. Now, the competition is on to see who's got what it takes to be the new kingpin. Could be a guy, could be a gal. Whoever's got the most gumption can win.

The adventure begins when you receive your invitation to get in the game on the eve of the event. It instructs you to gab with the flapper who's wearing the same color as your invitation, upon arrival at the party, to get you on your way.

Follow the clues, sling some gin, collect cash and figure out who you can trust. If you've got the biggest stash of green at the end of the evening, you'll be crowned the new Gin Kingpin of San Francisco and be awarded a stupendous prize!

Props & Poses

Get the star treatment in the Props and Poses room!

 A hospitable cast member with impeccable taste and style will invite you to choose just the right boa or bowler hat, and will suggest the perfect pose for your "money shot".

Voila!  A star is born.

Life is a Cabaret!

This is the Kit Kat club from the Broadway hit Cabaret, re-imagined. The area is complete with a raised stage and bright lights, cocktail seating and house jazz band. A gorgeous, quick-witted magician performs eye-popping, close-up magic while vivacious, female characters stroll throughout the room making cute quips.

Every half hour, our three, musical theatre-trained, female vocalists belt out iconic songs from the award-winning musical such as "Welcome", "Maybe This Time" and "Money Money". Variety acts featuring magic, juggling and comedy follow, to round out the decadent 1930s, vaudevillian experience.

The Grand Finale

And now... for the grand finale... First, the winner of the Gin Kingpin Game is announced! Then, our powerhouse vocalists and mesmerizing magician take the stage to perform the renowned hit "Cabaret" featuring Fosse-inspired choreography and... you!

On cue, get on your feet and show us your jazz hands or clap, stamp your feet and be part of the cabaret's wildly ruckus crowd. This is your cabaret!

Come to the Cabaret!

This custom, Cabaret-themed, immersive entertainment experience includes:

• Original, custom Cabaret-themed event concept for Crystal Dynamics featuring 5 interactive elements
• 4 performers for 4 hours (including rehearsal time and travel expenses)
• 3 musicians for 4 hours (including rehearsal time and travel expenses)
• Sound engineer for 4 hours
• 4 custom, 30s era costumes featuring sequins and feathers
• Additional costume pieces and props for Gin Kingpin Game and Props & Poses
• Rental of audio equipment 
• Rental of lighting for stage 
• Creation of feature performances (musical & variety acts) on cabaret stage
• Choreography for finale, production number
• Design and writing of custom, mission-driven, Gin Kingpin Game

Ambient Add-ons

    Enhance and engage with eye-popping, add-on talent:

• Strolling Juggler (clubs, hats & fire torches) throughout the venue and on the balcony.
• Ambient Dance Routines (3 cast members perform 2 different routines twice an hour. Includes costume change, choreography, follow spot & props).

Quantum Leap 

An Interstellar Celebration Beyond the Imagination

Objective

Bring the Space theme to vivid life by transforming the venue into a space craft, on a virtual, intergalactic journey to a distant planet, to be colonized by the Cruise Automation team.

This immersive, multimedia experience features custom, futuristic environments on all 3 floors of the venue, interactive sci-fi characters, alien close-up magic, leading-edge dance performances and audience participation, for an out-of-this-stratosphere experience.

Concept

The pioneering Cruise Automation team will board Cruise One for an intergalactic journey of discovery to their new home world, Alter Domi - the first colony of its kind.

The evening’s entertainment plays out in four experiential phases:

Phase 1: Boarding the rocket, Cruise One, in preparation for takeoff, with character greetings in the entrance portal

Phase 2: Countdown to blast-off with exciting multimedia and custom soundscape

Phase 3: Exploring three futuristic environments, with entertainment in each

Phase 4: The space jump into the Hyperdrive Finale, an eye-popping multimedia experience

Character Greeting

Upon arrival, guests hear an ambient, space soundtrack and the soothing feminine voice of the vessel’s Al greeting them.

"Welcome to Cruise One. Please proceed to the Main Deck. A crew member will prepare you for takeoff."

Guests are then greeted by the vessel’s 5 crew members (the entertainers), a diverse mix of humans and aliens, who act as the team’s guides.

Countdown to Blast-off

Once guests are all aboard, they will experience the excitement of a countdown to blast-off. The countdown from 10 is displayed on the big screen on the Main Deck and everyone joins in. At 0, the sound of the rocket ship blasting-off fills the room, along with rumbling sound effects. 

*Recommendation: Lights flicker on and off to signify blast-off, and the large screen displays a rocket ship launching. The DJ plays directly after take-off. Displays on the video screen and lighting design is provided by the venue. We will coordinate and manage the delivery of these elements from the other vendors.

Exploring 3 Futuristic Levels

• Main Deck (Ground Floor): Bright white lighting and stars falling downward slowly on the large screen (to illustrate space craft motion). DJ is playing and guests are dancing, dining and experiencing alien, close-up magic.
  *Recommendation: White couches and cocktail tables and chairs. We also recommend an Oxygen Bar as an added attraction.
   
• Engine Room (Lower Floor): Dim red lighting and ambient mechanical sound track. The voice of the space craft's AI can be heard assessing functions: "Oxygen levels are normal... Coordinates, entered."
  *Recommendation: Red couches and coffee tables

• Cultural Assimilation Room (Upper Floor): Green lighting and ambient space sound track plays. Room is filled with artifacts such as sepia photos, rocks and plants from the planet Altera Domi. Guests interact with aliens from this planet to learn of their culture. The Altera Domians mesmerize guests with other-worldly performances featuring glow spheres, ethereal music and magic, every 45 minutes. 
  *Recommendation: Green couches, a round stage and theatre seating.

Space Jump Finale

For the exhilarating, multi-media conclusion, guests are invited to participate in a final countdown.

Once the space craft reaches the stargate, it makes a heart-pounding leap through a worm hole to Altera Domi, the final destination. Guests watch this momentous event on the Main Deck's big screen.

In celebration of this scientific feat, the cast launches into a high-energy, futuristic dance performance, infused with magic, for a satisfying and electrifying finale.

*This would be a perfect point in the program for Kyle Vogt to say a few words if this is on the agenda.

*The venue provides the video footage on the big screen. We will work with them to make this deliverable. We provide the sound effects.

Package One: Interstellar Journey

• Original, custom space-themed event concept for Cruise Automation for 3-level event space
• Coordination with the venue, production company, caterer and design company to ensure cohesive and seamless experience
• 5 performers for 4 hours (including rehearsal time and travel expenses)
• 5 custom, futuristic costumes featuring LED lights
• Creation of space sound effect loops for 3 levels 
• Original voice-over scripts and space craft's AI voice recordings 
• Choreography of custom alien performance for the Cultural Assimilation Room
• Creation of props for all 3 levels

Package Two: Full Intergalactic Experience

• All featured items in Package 1 with the addition of a show-stopping musical and magical performance titled Quantum Leap, featuring all five cast members; choreographed to an original, orchestrated score with dazzling magic, spectacle and surprises on the Main Deck for the big finale - the Space Jump.

Roaring 20's

A Dazzling Murder Mystery 

Objective

Bring the Roaring 20s murder mystery theme to vivid life by first converting the Monroe nightclub into a swanky speakeasy complete with performing flappers and a slick jazz trio, then, staging a criminal caper for the guys and dolls of Tapingo to solve.

This custom, ab-so-lute-ly swell, interactive experience features razzle-dazzle close-up magic, Charleston-dancing jazz singers and music, a murder mystery-inspired plot, clue-dropping skits, feel-good audience participation and a show-stopping, whodunit-revealing finale.

Concept

The Monroe juice joint is hopping on a Thursday night and the fellas and dames are dressed to the nines and looking for some kicks.

Then, just as the golden-voiced jazz singers are performing  a sultry rendition of “Ain’t Misbehavin”, a shrill scream chills everyone’s spines, and halts all music and chatter...

Jeepers Creepers! A big cheese from Tapingo is lying spread-eagle on the floor. Murdered.

The evening’s rip-roaring entertainment plays out in 3, fully customized, interactive phases:

Magic & Mayhem: Ritzy jazz music and doll-faced flappers greeting and performing snappy magic, until... a melodramatic murder causes mayhem!

Music & Mystery: Charleston-dancing flappers mingle with guests, croon with the band and perform titillating, pop-up, mystery-solving skits.

Whodunit: The performers and guests come together to determine whodunit in a thrilling game of elimination, for a riveting and satisfying finale. 

Magic & Mayhem

Upon arrival, guys and dolls hear live, finger-snapping jazz music and are greeted by three sequin-clad flappers, who are reallookers.

Two of the dancing dames escort guests to their cocktail tables and then kick up their heels, while the other dazzles them with magic that will have everyone saying, "This is the bee's knees!"

Music & Mystery

A trio of dapper, jazz musicians play upbeat, well-known tunes from the Roaring 20s including “When You’re Smiling”, “Mack the Knife” and “Dream a Little Dream of Me” while guests dance the Charleston, Fox-Trot or free style.

The three fabulous flappers alternate between singing with the band, strolling in character and performing pop-up, audience-activating skits that provide guests with clues as to who committed the crime.

Fingers will be pointed, lies will be told, people will be double-crossed… but the truth will come out!

Whodunit?

For a satisfying conclusion to a fun-filled evening of Roaring 20s misbehavin’ and mayhem, Tapingo guests gather by the stage to take a shot (no pun intended!) at whodunit. Only then is the motive, weapon and murderer revealed in one of two ways:

1) Flapper gals facilitate suspect eliminations with the assistance of guests, until the culprit is the only one left standing. (Package 1)

OR

2) As above PLUS...

A thrilling, show-stopping, plot-revealing, musical number featuring swinging singing and dancing and mesmerizing magic for a never-seen-before, satisfying grand finale. (Package 2)

Package 1: Murder Mystery & Mayhem (6 artists, 3 hrs)

• Custom, 3-phase, Roaring 20s Murder Mystery concept design
• Magician/flapper for 3 hrs
• 2 singers/dancers/flappers for 3 hrs 
• 3 jazz musicians for 3 hrs 
• Custom murder mystery storyline/plot
• Scripts for pop-up, plot-revealing skits, written in 1920s style
• 3 period (flapper) costumes
• Script for reveal of whodunit at finale

Package 2: Murder Mystery, Mayhem & Musical Finale (6 artists, 4 hrs)

           All featured items in Package 1 with the addition of: 

• Magician/flapper for 4 hrs 
• 2 singers/dancers/flappers for 4 hrs 
• 3 jazz musicians for 4 hrs 
• Original composition and choreography of show-stopping, plot-revealing musical finale

Contact: Heather Rogers
heather@heathermagic.com or 415-824-4220