LAMDA, Musical Theatre Examination...

When Veronica started taking singing lessons, she knew that she didn’t want to take the traditional British singing examinations. Her instructor Jenny suggested that she take the LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts) exams instead and Veronica loved that idea. In early April, we went with Jenny and one other student to Brussels for the exams.

Veronica sang two songs for her Grade 6 exam, starting each with a short monologue. Here she is setting the scene for singing Skyfall by Adele from the James Bond movie of the same name.

I really loved her performance of Cabaret, which was sung by Liza Minnelli in the movie version of the musical by the same name.

We got to watch the girls rehearse, but couldn’t watch the performance in front of the examiner. Veronica had to wait weeks to find out that she passed. You can watch her performance from Jenny’s earlier that week.