Friday, February 14, 2014

It is Important to Include Your Children In Your Work

Here is Carys On the Set of Waiting in the Wings

Carys was born the Tec week of The Sound of Music at the Civic Theate in Grand rapids, where I was Playing Uncle Max. She saw her first show at four weeks old. This Production above was a year later & she was able to lap it all up. Plus woo the whole cast. I remember walking out on stage as Cliff to hear her say, "that's Daddy." from the back of the circle. A heart warming moment.
That Christmas she was with me every step of the way in producing Jack and the Beanstalk at the Wealthy Theatre, Grand Rapids. In fact she was good at the castings, as if she sat and watched an actor audition with out a word, then I knew I had a good one and engaged them.

So should you want to come work with me at Lloyd Productions, you will meet all three of my children. If you have children they are welcome to the work place as I will not produce anything child unfriendly. Lloyd productions is a Family Business. Yes there will be adult nights and certain times when they can not be present, but I find my children understand that and still feel included in what we do.
Getting the Jack & the Beanstalk ready for the public in Torquay in 2013 for New Pantomime Productions, they did not see much of me, but once we were up and running, you could not keep them out of the Theatre, they saw nine shows and wanted more. Really in this line of business it is great to be able to share what you do with all ages and everyone in your circle, or there would be no point.      

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