The Georgetown Palace Theater
Welcome to the Palace Theater Summer "Theatrical School"
Dear Parents,
You will notice that our selections for this summer invite the beginner theater student while offering challenges for our returning young actors. Each selection is designed to offer the best developmental theatrical opportunity for all ages and levels of acting experience in our student population. This summer our school is offering opportunities for the 7 to 9 years old theater student (we will have to ask that these students have finished first grade due to the required reading and social skill levels). The 10 to 12 year old theatrical students, and a series of different opportunites for our teen actors(ages 13 to 17).
We are very sorry but at this time you can not enroll for the Theater School on-line. Our web master is working on a way to enable you to use the on-line method but this will take another few days. Too enroll please call 512-868-3643 and either speak to Matt Burnett or Mary Ellen Butler or leave a message and we will call you back. You can enroll over the phone using the above listed number.
Each session in the 7 to 9 age group, the 10 to 12 age group, and one teen session, is two weeks in length. The normal cost for each session week is $175, with the early bird special of $150 per week if you sign up before May 1, 2008. There is a $25 one time craft fee for all sessions.
The sessions have early drop off at 7:30am and late pick-up to 5:15pm. A $25 a week late pick up fee will need to be added if you will be later then 5:15.
We estimated that our hourly rate for creating an educational, safe and developmentally approriate enviroment for your child was about $3.50 an hour. We feel we are the best deal in town, (or out of town)!
Early Bird Totals:
For a two week session $300 plus a $25 craft fee.
Teen three week session $450 plus a $25 Craft fee.
After May 1, 2008
For a two week session $350 plus a $25 craft fee
Tee three week session $525 plus a $25 craft fee
Special Rates:
Two students enrolled in one session or a student enrolled in two sessions 10% discount off the second student/session.
Three students enrolled in one session or a student enrolled in three session 20% off the third student/session and 10% off the second student/session
More then three students or sessions please speak with the program director Mary Ellen or her assistant director Matt Barnett at 512-868-3643.
We knowl our summer acting school offerings are exciting and diverse. We are confident we can create a great theatrical experience for all types of children and teens, and we challenge them to join us and experience the wonderful theatrical growth we can offer in our 6th year of theatrical summer school!
For Our 7 to 9 Years Old Theater Students |
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| 6/16-6/28 | Featuring "Wackodoo Zoo" Session # 1 |
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| 6/30-7/12 | Featuring "Go Fish" Session #2 Once again we offer this wonderful perfomance piece for our younger students. This one of the most popular plays that we have done in the past five years.  A seven-legged Octopus? A Blow Fish with allergies? A Tuna Fish that can't carry a tune? Join in the aquatic fun as little Tiger Shark and his unique collection of friends discover how their differences make them each special. This musical features 5 original songs, easy rhyming dialogue, a large number of parts, and choreography, all designed to enrich your childs theatrical growth.The students will also design and help create the wonderful sea world's costumes. |
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| 7/14-7/26 | Featuring "The Unity Tree" Session #3 
A very timely musical for all seasons, this addresses exactly what many acting/music teachers have requested: how much we all need love, understanding and acceptance.A prominent tree with a large, vertical stripe right down the middle forms a distinct boundary between Catville and Dogburg. Alas, more than just the tree separates these two villages. Longstanding prejudice and intolerance dwell there, too. A new kitten and puppy discover each other before they find "their own kind," and form a quick friendship because they are ignorant of the way things are "supposed to be." In the end, the newly decorated Unity Tree has blurred boundaries and now they stand together, united. Wonderful songs, great developement choreography, many parts for our acting students. The students will also design and help create the wonderful costumes for the inhabitants of Catville and Dogburg. |
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| 7/28-8/9 | Featuring "Circus Circus" Session #4
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| 8/11-8/23 | Featuring "Bugz" Session #5
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For Our 10 to 12 Years Old Theater Students |
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| 6/16-6/28 | Featuring "Clowns" Session #1
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| 6/30-7/12 | Featuring "Treasure Island " Session #2 Youn
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| 7/14-7/26 | Featuring "101 Dalmations" Kids version Session #3 In |
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| 7/28-8/9 | Featuring "The Castaways " Session #4 |
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| 8/11-8/23 | Featuring "The Best Little Theater in Town " Session #5 |
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For Our Teens (13-17 Years Old Theater Students) Our first three teen sessions last for three weeks each with options for our beginning and advanced students. Our last session is two weeks in length and has a purely "acting focus". |
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| 6/9-6/28 | Featuring "Thoroughly Modern Millie" jr Session #1
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| 6/30-7/19 | Featuring "American Pop Forever" and selections from
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| 7/21-8/9 | Featuring "Willy Wonka" jr Session #3 All of our favorite characters and songs (including “The Candy Man” and “Pure Imagin  ation”) are featured in this show that overflows with music, comedy and heart. The memorable score by Leslie Bricusse (Jekyll & Hyde, Doctor Dolittle) and Anthony Newley, augmented by several new songs, has been neatly fitted into a new script adapted under the auspices of the Roald Dahl Estate. Willy Wonka is a wonderful family and children's show.The exceptional music will further develop our students through intensive song and dance training. This show will be open to the camps and families of the area! |
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| 8/11-8-23 | Featuring "Instensive Acting Selections" Session #4 This class is in development and is geared to those students who wish to further develop their individual acting skills. It will focus intently on monologue and duet acting using various scenes from Shakespeare, Coward and other recognized playwrights. (More Information to follow) |
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| 7/21-8/9 | Featuring "Theater Tech and Stage Production Class" Session #3A
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eed to have you chuckling from start to finish, as a learned Professor of Linguistics attempts to straighten out some mixed-up but very happy animals. (Imagine cows that meow, lions that crow, etc.) Six spirited songs that will develop our students singing abilities coupled with choreography designed for each song (which enhances your childs movement and dance growth!) The students will also design and help create the wonderful zoo animal costumes. 
Circus is in town and there's excitement in the air! But wait...the Ringmaster has come down with a case of laryngitis and they need to find a substitute fast! Join the clowns, jugglers, dancing bears, lions and a host of other hilarious performers as they help one very sad clown smile again. This show offers wonderful opportunities for developing the student's singing and dancing skills. The students will also design and help create the wonderful costumes and set pieces which will turn the Palce stage into a circus! 
There's going to be a picnic and everyone is pitching in - the Lady Bugs are in charge of proper etiquette, the Army Ants will handle security, the Fireflies are in charge of lighting, and entertainment will be handled by the Bumble Bees. Just when everything is perfectly set up - we find out the Stinky Bug wants to come too! Buzz on over to the country-style hoedown and help the critters rescue the party! With five original songs and rhyming dialogue, wonderful costumes and inspired choreography this show is sure to create a wonderful acting experience! The students will help design and create the wonderful costumes for the lady bug, ants, firefiles and much more. This show is a wonderful way to end our summer program with a selection that can accommodate many of our young actors!
wns is an energetic, fast-paced musical about a troupe of young clowns who someday hope to be professionals in their trade. The story is one of singing and dancing, laughing and crying, searching and finding—the very elements of life itself. The audience joins up with the clowns as they begin the quest of finding out one of the secrets of life. After looking for the secret in tangible things, they are shown that the searching must take place in the heart and that the search isn’t limited to one day, but goes on tomorrow with new secrets to be found. This script is beautifully written with wonderful moments. 
g Jim Hawkins longs for adventure and finds it in this classic tale of pirates, pigaloos and buried treasure. This adaptation features an expanded script and eight original songs - ideal for middle school performers(ages 10-12) who can handle a 55 minute musical production. This musical is for those students who wish to develope their acting as well as their singing and dancing skills. A wonderful step up to a more dramatic production! 
a loving home in the city of London, Dalmatian parents, Pongo and Perdita happily raise their Dalmatian puppies, until the monstrous Cruella De Vil plots to steal them for her new fur coat! Join all the dogs of London, as they daringly rescue the puppies from Cruella and her bumbling henchmen. With a delightfully fun score, lovable characters, and one of the most deliciously evil villains in the Disney canon, this stage adaptation is certain to charm and delight all our students as well as our parent audience!This Disney musical is adapted specifically for our age group (10 to 12 years old) with great songs and choreograpyhy and a truly delightful script with acting roles for many of our students.
Grounded in historical fact, the plot reveals the struggles of immigrant children left to fend for themselves on the streets of New York in the early 1900's. The challenges they faced in work and play are all recalled here with whimsy, drama and pathos. Many of these children ended up with midwestern families who were seeking children to love and raise as their own. Performances of the Castaways will develope the students awareness of those who have struggled to survive during the harsh times. The music and choreography are wonderful tools to strengthen the students performance skills. 
Due to a lack of funds, James P. Pennypacker (a shady accountant) announces that he'll have to shut down "The Best Little Theater in Town." That's when the theater's owner, Mrs. Goodman, popular director Cecille Deville, and the tightly-knit cast go into action! Two narrators pave the way as they discuss the elements of a classic musical theater production in this fun-filled "play within a play." The students will love being a part of this story as this small town theater company struggles to make ends meet. There's plenty of drama, and more than enough comedy in this fabulous theatrical score and entertaining book. This is a really fun filled show which will challenge and develop our students! 
infused score. With excellent parts for strong singers and wonderful choral numbers side by side we can engage all levels of student actors. The music is filled with toe tapping numbers that will envigorate the audience as the students "strut their stuff" to this wonderfully crafted version of the 1920's flapper meeting the new age work force. A true example of a real broadway show with large staged show numbers and smaller solo or duet numbers the let the students experience the developmental elements of a actual broadway musical! 
Please call 512-868-3643 to enroll!
We know our summer acting school offerings are exciting and diverse. We are confident we can create a great theatrical experience for all types of children and teens, and we challenge them to join us and experience the wonderful theatrical growth we can offer in our 6th year of theatrical summer school!
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