This year’s festival promises 19 events over five days in all manner of venues from hotels and theatre foyers to winding alleyways and the Cataract Gorge. Artistic Director Tyran Parke’s wide-ranging program includes three inventively staged musicals: John Bucchino’s It’s Only Life, Marry Me A Little, which features material cut from Stephen Sondheim’s shows, and Maury Yeston’s Nine. Headline performers include Kerrie Anne Greenland, Josh Piterman, Patrice Tipoki and Queenie van de Zandt.

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Hold onto your hats, folks! The multi-award winning musical theatre maverick and comedic cabaret star, Queenie van de Zandt, is back and she’s shaking things up like never before.

Hailed in the press as a ‘vocal powerhouse’, in Choose Your Own Adventure this unconventional musical theatre queen dances to the beat of her own drum once again with a ground-breaking twist on the musical theatre experience. Using nothing but your smartphone you will create a showtune extravaganza.

In Choose Your Own Adventure Queenie offers up a buffet of musical theatre entertainment on a Les Mis Lazy Susan. You want an 11 o’clock number? Consider it served. A Broadway pub quiz? Coming right up. Real life hilarious backstage anecdotes? Darling, it’s on the menu! But the best part? With you shining the spotlight, you get to choose what you see. With no two shows ever the same, you can return again and again for an ever-fresh, encore-inducing performance.