The performing arts are both the most intriguing and the most frustrating of professions. While the destination is attractive, the path to get there is vague.
If you want to be a doctor, you go to medical school. If you want to be a plumber, you go to trade school. But for young people interested in becoming theatrical performers, it can be very challenging for their parents to help them find the early opportunities so vital to their development.
One mother faced this very problem when her family moved to Southern California. Tiffney Beckhoff had two daughters who loved musical theater, but although Orange County is full of fine dancing and singing schools for young people, nothing provided quite the same opportunities as what they’d enjoyed in Northern California. Seeing a need that countless other creative young people must similarly face, this family decided to become the change they wanted to see in the world. …