Choose Your Own Musical Theatre Adventure

Hold onto your hats and get ready to embark on a thrilling adventure through the world of musical theatre with the incomparable Queenie van de Zandt! Once again, unconventional musical theatre queen is dancing to the beat of her own drum with this ground-breaking twist on the musical theatre experience. In her new show, Choose Your Own Musical Theatre Adventure, the audience, using nothing but their smartphones, get to choose everything that takes place during the evening.

In this innovative production, Queenie will offer the audience a buffet of musical delights on a ‘Les Mis Lazy Susan’ – everything from show-stopping 11 o’clock numbers to Broadway pub quizzes and hilarious backstage anecdotes – with the audience choosing what comes next! Exploring the intersection of technology and live performance, Choose Your Own Musical Theatre Adventure puts the power in the hands of the audience, allowing them to shape the evening’s entertainment in real-time, to create a much needed sense of community and fun.

As Queenie puts it, “I created ‘Choose Your Own Musical Theatre Adventure’ to not only give audiences a fun night out, but as a way of creating community, a sense of togetherness and to remind us all that life is full of adventure and possibility. With all the tragedy in the news, we all need a reminder of these things. The show really celebrates being together and the limitless possibilities of choosing the stories we listen to and create. I hope people leave the show feeling a sense of community, that life is full of possibility and that they have the power to create their world.”

Queenie van de Zandt is a dynamic force in musical theatre and cabaret, renowned for her powerful vocals and magnetic stage presence. With a career spanning over three decades, she’s earned a staggering 22 theatre nominations, with 9 well-deserved wins, for her acclaimed performances in musicals such as Next to Normal, Into the Woods and King Kong.

Join Queenie for an unforgettable evening of laughter, music, and interactive fun at Choose Your Own Musical Theatre Adventure, presented by Amazon Woman Enterprises at (insert venue and date/s). Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this unique theatrical experience – grab your seat, juice up your smartphone and take control of how the night unfolds.

About Queenie van de Zandt

Queenie van de Zandt moves through the world entertaining, educating, and serenading the people she meets. She has the unique ability in all her work to make people feel deeply, and to awaken laughter, empathy, and awareness in equal measure.

She is one of Australia’s leading ladies of musical theatre and cabaret and is also renowned as one of Australia’s leading teachers of audition technique for musical theatre, song performance and cabaret. Renowned for her incredible versatility as a performer she has worked extensively in musical theatre, plays, cabaret, on television and film, and as a recording artist, comedienne and writer.

Her career highlights include: on television – Upright – Season 2 (Foxtel), The Newsreader (Season 1, 2 & 3), Very Small Business and Da Kath & Kim Code (ABC), Safe Home (SBS), and Five Bedrooms (Network 10); in theatre – Face to Face (STC), Women of Troy (Malthouse/STC), Rabbit Hole, Absent Friends and Abigail’s Party (Ensemble Theatre), Secret Bridesmaid’s Business and After January (La Boite) and The Road to the She-Devil’s Salon (QTC); on film – the Australian feature film Girl Clock; in musical theatre – Next to Normal (James Terry Collective), Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company), Into the Woods (Victorian Opera), Follies (Storeyboard Entertainment), Funny Girl (Sydney Symphony Orchestra), King Kong (Global Creatures), The Full Monty (IMG/David Atkins) and Oliver (Cameron Mackintosh/IMG); and in cabaret – Smoke & Mirrors (Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Edinburgh Festivals), and Moments in the Woods, BLUE: The Songs of Joni Mitchell, CABARET – In 12 Easy Steps, The Best (and Worst) of Queenie van de Zandt and I GET THE MUSIC IN YOU, an evening with Jan van de Stool (Adelaide Cabaret Festival). Queenie has been nominated for 22 major theatre awards, winning 9, for her work in musicals and cabaret.

Through Amazon Woman Enterprises, Queenie develops and performs her original work. Highlights include: Releasing 4 albums (Amazon Woman, Other Stories, Queenie van de Zandt – Live in Cabaret and Singing & Vocal Warm Up Exercises); her multi award-winning show BLUE: The Song of Joni Mitchell which continues to tour around Australia and internationally; and projects involving her cult, comedy alter-ego Jan van de Stool, such as twice co-hosting The Helpmann Awards (Foxtel/ABC); her multi-award winning comedy show I GET THE MUSIC IN YOU, an evening with Jan van de Stool (MICF) and her latest show, Jan van de Stool in PARTING THE RED CURTAINS (Brisbane Comedy Festival & Sydney Comedy Festival).

In 2015 Queenie also founded The Australian Musical Theatre Academy (AMTA) after holding teaching positions at NIDA, VCA & Federation University in Ballarat (formerly BAAPA). AMTA offers workshops, masterclasses, and courses for students of all skill levels, giving people the tools to live creative, passionate, and fulfilling lives, working with the best instructors in Australia. Queenie been called a “star-maker” in the media, due to the high success rate of children and adults who participate in her workshops subsequently gaining entry to acting schools and getting cast in professional musicals. AMTA’s and Queenie’s former students have played lead roles in shows such as, Hamilton, Mary Poppins, Frozen, Fangirls, and Come from Away – to name just a few.

Most recently Queenie has started a new business creating bespoke cabaret shows for weddings, significant birthdays, corporate awards nights, and end of life celebrations. Queenie interviews the relevant parties and then from her research, she writes and performs the show (along with willing friends, family, and/or colleagues) to help people profoundly celebrate their special event in a way that is deeply felt and never forgotten.

Queenie brings to all her work, not only this wealth of experience but also her fine communication skills, her passion for the arts, her warm and positive nature, and her wonderful sense of humour. Queenie has been a proud member of the MEAA since 1989.