Christmas Gift Guides 2025: Experience gifts

Need inspiration for gifts for this Christmas? Look no further than Toni's Christmas Gift Guides. From young kids to your father-in-law, there's something for everyone in these guides. 

• Rocky Horror Picture Show Tickets
  • Auckland
  • Wellington
  • Christchurch
• & Juliet Tickets
• Mel Robbins Tickets
• Matilda The Musical Tickets
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, welcome to We need to Talk. It's great to
have you with us for the special Christmas Gift Guide,
and today we're talking about experiences which are such a
cool prize or present because I feel like you get
it on Christmas Day, but then you get to have
it another day as well. And I'm a major thespian.
I love a good show and if you're not into
the show world, you need to get there because it

(00:25):
is just so feel good. And we have a plethora
of options coming in twenty twenty six. So I'm going
to kick it off by telling you about the Rocky
Horror And we have such a strong link to the
Rocky Horror Picture Show here in New Zealand. I went
to it as a young girl, which was probably a
bit inappropriate when I think about it. Back in the day.
I loved it and the movie is gray ever since.

(00:47):
Richard O'Brien, he is part of it, bringing this UK
West End cast back to New Zealand. So it's outrageous,
it's bold, it's got our so many songs that you know,
like the Time Warp and if you want to have
a look at that Coast Breakfast Jason Sam and I
did our own very special rendition of that one is

(01:09):
Franken Furder and all of the things. So sixty nine dollars.
These tickets start at which I thought was pretty good,
and you can get those at ticket Master. This is
a show I think that is probably more appropriate for
younger audiences than Rocky Horror, and I will be buying
this one for my girls and Juliet. Now, this is
being put on by gen T Productions, who brought us

(01:31):
shows like Priscilla and Matilda. It's in April and Auckland
and it's in May and Wellington. You can get tickets
at Ticketmaster, dot co, dot NZ one hundred and seventeen dollars. Now,
I personally know the director of this, Hamish Moat. He
is fabulous, so expect the dance to be phenomenal. I
also went to the show in Sydney earlier this year,
and I tell you what, it is a show you

(01:53):
are going to love. Think of all of the nineties anthems,
Think Pink, Britney Spears, Katie Perry, Back Street Boys, West Life,
mix in a bit of hip hop, and mix in
the story of Romeo and Juliet. But it's after if
Juliet didn't die, What would she have done next? It's
very very modern with a nod to the past. And
I loved it and I know that my kids will

(02:15):
love her, and I think you will too. The Mail
Robin Show. You know Mel Robins. She's a hit podcaster
and she talks very philosophically about life and health. She's
coming to New Zealand. I only just recently discovered this
on the twentieth and twenty first of March. The tickets
are pricey three hundred and fifty bucks, but I feel
like her show would be super well received, so that's

(02:36):
an option too. As I said, hamish More, that director
who is doing and Juliet. He is also the director
and choreographer for Matilda Wellington. Now you might remember my
daughter played Matilda and my other little one was in
it too, But they played those characters in Matilda Auckland.
It was a sellout at the Bruce Mason Theater, so
you can expect exactly the same quality in Wellington because

(02:59):
this is the guy and charge and you will love
all the moves. One hundred dollars the tickets start at
and I know that well Antonians get behind it. I
actually think it would be a good idea for a
gift if you're outside of Wellington too, to make a
trip out of it. I took my girls on a
girl's weekend from Auckland to Wellington for Mum and Mia
and we just had the best weekend. You can go
along the Wellington waterfront, you can go and visit to Papa.

(03:21):
That's free by the way for New Zealanders. So I
would make it a weekend with the kids. And lastly
in the experiences. This is a shameless plug for my
own business, but I have a business now called Confident Communication,
where I teach people how to be better public speakers,
how to be confident, how not to dread the fact
that you've got a gig coming up, or even just
how to host a meeting. And increasingly in our workplaces

(03:45):
we're being asked to not only speak in front of
our colleagues, but host panels. I know my sister she
has to host panel discussions all the time at work.
How to speak well on zoom, what to where. All
of those things are wrapped into this online communication course
and you can find that at Tonystreet dot com.