Highlands Little Theatre

P.O. Box 691 Sebring Florida USA 33871 Tel: 863-382-2525

Vealda Lambright - Music Ma'am
By: Roy Riedy

Vealda Lambright has been involved with Highlands Little Theatre since she was recruited by Sue McCollum for her October, 1997, production of Godspell in which Vealda played the keyboard and won a Zenon the following October at the Awards Ceremonies for her contribution to the music of Godspell.

Mrs. Lambright is a fourth generation native Floridian, and credits most of her musical ability from piano lessons beginning at the age of 12 and membership in Middle School and High School bands. In Highlands County Vealda has accompanied various choirs at The First Baptist Church in Avon Park and the Highlands Children Chorus of 1995-96. Vealda is a substitute teacher in Highlands County and lives in Avon Park with her husband Wayne and their three sons.

In July, 2000, she was the musical accompanist for the CAT production of the musical play for children Rumplestiltskin which was directed by Krista Flores and presented at The Little Theatre as part of the Summer Theatre Production Camp 2000.

In August, 2001, Vealda and her husband Wayne received special acknowledgements for their help in the production of Tammie Pollard's West Side Story. In January, 2002, both the Lambrights were credited in the playbill of Pete Pollard's production of Foxfire for their scripted music recording for that play.

In March, 2002, Vealda was credited in the playbill of Joe Willis' wonderful Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as being the Producer/Musical Coordinator/Rehearsal Pianist for his extravaganza, and in a separate paragraph entitled "About the Music" the program had this to say about the Lambright's total dedication: "Wayne and Vealda Lambright, with help from their three sons, Jonathan, Ryan, and Jeremiah, produced most of the musical sound track for this show. They worked on it most weekends and evenings from mid-December to early March. The computer-generated sound track blends the sound of individual instruments into an entire orchestra . . ." Sebring's HLT had now truly entered the high tech arena.

In the Twenty-ninth Season, Mrs. Lambright was the Producer of Sue McCollum's revival of the long running Off-Broadway musical success, The Fantasticks. She was acknowledged for her work by being nominated at the season's end for a Best Producer nomination.

The Thirtieth Season brought more honors to the Lambrights. Vealda and her husband were nominated and won a Production/Technical Discretionary Zenon for their musical coordination of the musicals The Scarlet Pimpernel and Jesus Christ, Superstar.

Since 1997, Vealda has been involved in 8 plays, 4 Zenon Ceremonies, and been mentioned in 20 HLT Newsletters and 20 local newspaper articles for a total of 52 citations.

Thank you for the music Ma'am.

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