Tiffany Menzies, of Arthur's Point, finished setting the "Burning Love" finale with all 25 performers last night.
They now have only four weeks to tighten up their moves, before opening night in the Queenstown Memorial Hall on May 19.
"It's a big cast and it's an amateur theatre group, so you've got a big spectrum of strengths and weaknesses," Mrs Menzies said yesterday.
"It's been a challenge for me to choreograph something everyone can do and make a big impact with the audience.
"Musical theatre is tough as you have to sing, dance and act and it's a big ask to be good at all three, but everyone's got their strengths and talents."
Mrs Menzies started work by going through the seven and a-half Elvis Presley songs which needed choreographing and talking to director Bryan Aitken about carrying the story and emotions through dancing.
She choreographed the base dance for the cast, then added texture using floor patterns and other techniques to make the performances as exciting as possible.
The Englishwoman said she could probably dance before she could walk.
She studied tap, ballet, modern and jazz disciplines between the ages of 4 and 19, at Wentworth Dance School.
Her studies overlapped with Farnborough College from the age of 18, where she studied dance and performing arts and practised contemporary dance and choreography techniques.
"It's where I started to find my own style. I'd say I'm more contemporary jazz than traditional ballet because there's more freedom of expression.
"I found ballet a bit too restrictive and you can put your own feelings in contemporary jazz styles."
The Bead Shop manager and her husband, Eliott Menzies, who grew up in Queenstown, came back to the Wakatipu two and a-half years ago, after living overseas and in Wellington.
The resort and its folk brought the couple back to settle and Mrs Menzies joined Showbiz Queenstown's cast for Les Miserables (2009) and Oliver! (2010).
"It's a great town to put in some roots," she said. If you want to succeed in something, it's like the whole community gets in and helps you."
