Queenie back to teach
Queenie van de Zandt, one of Sydney’s best loved musical theatre performers and the well-known teacher to music theatre’s rising stars, today announced that she will again present her popular ADVANCED AUDITION TECHNIQUE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE course in Sydney on Saturdays from April 30 to June 18.
Queenie van de Zandt, one of Sydney’s best loved musical theatre performers and the well-known teacher to music theatre’s rising stars, today announced that she will again present her popular ADVANCED AUDITION TECHNIQUE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE course in Sydney on Saturdays from April 30 to June 18.
The Advanced Course will bring some of Australia’s most experienced and respected musical theatre professionals together to lead a series of master classes for emerging performers.
Queenie’s Advanced Course ran twice in 2010, to great success. She currently has former students in Jersey Boys, Wicked, and Mary Poppins, with two of her former students playing the lead roles in Rock of Ages and Hairspray!
Max Lambert, Musical Director of Hairspray and Fame and one of the tutors who works with students in the Advanced Course, believes no aspiring musical theatre performer can afford to miss Queenie’s course.
“This brilliant course is constructed so that you can find out exactly where you went right – and wrong. Industry professionals can offer insights and shortcuts that sometimes mean the difference between landing a role and working tables,” he said.
Another of the Advanced Course tutors, Darren Yap, Director of Mamma Mia! and Miss Saigon, agrees that the value in this course is in the insider knowledge it offers students.
“I highly recommend Queenie’s course to anyone serious in learning how to audition for a musical and what the professional panels are looking for in a performer’s audition,” he said.
Queenie said the feedback received last year was overwhelmingly positive.
“One of the unique elements of this course is that participants get to hone their audition repertoire and skills under the guidance and instruction of some of Australia’s leading musical theatre directors, musical directors and choreographers, she said.
“But this year we will also be including specialist industry forums with top producers, agents, publicists, and high profile performers.”
Fiona Pearson graduated from the inaugural course in June last year, and for her, the results were immediate.
“Queenie’s masterclass changed the way I think as a performer. Within a fortnight I had been cast in a professional musical,” she said.
The course culminates in a mock audition in front of a panel of the very people who cast Australia’s top musicals.
It’s a unique opportunity for students to be seen by and receive feedback from the people who actually have the power to give them a job!,” said Queenie.
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