Reviews for Georgetown Palace Theatre Performances
Review: Grease by The Georgetown Palace Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on April 03, 2009
The Georgetown Palace Theatre is back to doing what they do best -- a rollicking big musical comedy with lots of dance,sparkling with a glitzy coating of happy nostalgia.
The Georgetown Palace Theatre is back to doing what they do best -- a rollicking big musical comedy with lots of dance,sparkling with a glitzy coating of happy nostalgia. Grease is no trail breaker, but it's for sure an entertainment where the whole family can kick back and enjoy. With the bonus that they'll learn that live theatre is so much more than the talking pictures from the 1978 movie with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.Everybody's doing …
Review: God's Man in Texas by The Georgetown Palace Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on March 03, 2009
Andy Brown represents for us all those thousands who are faithful clients of this huge enterprise. We identify with him as we see him hesitate, apprehensive about this new development, about these new people, and about the uncertainty of Gottschall's reaction to unwelcome news.
With her decision to stage God's Man in Texas at the Georgetown Palace Theatre, artistic director Mary Ellen Butler has taken a risk. She acknowledges in the program that she has waited seven years to put it on -- "as the Palace grew . . . in depth of audience, attendance, and actor availability."The Palace is now a highly successful non-profit venture, depending on a local audience including a big percentage of retirees -- folks you might assume …
Review: Love, Sex and the IRS by The Georgetown Palace Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on January 22, 2009
I enjoyed frequent chuckles at this nonsense, but overall, it just didn't work for me. I've spent some time puzzling about that, particularly since every other piece I've seen at the Palace has left me fully satisfied.
Actor/author Billy Van Zandt and his writing partner Jane Milmore banged out this comedy in 1979, backstage on the set of the first Star Trek movie. They took the principal roles in the debut performance at a dinner theatre in upper New York state. As Van Zandt tells it on their website, they were totally unprepared for the success of the piece or for the request from drama publishers Samuel French not only to publish that …
Review: The Producers by The Georgetown Palace Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on September 30, 2008
So what’s not to like, already? This show has energy, glitter, comedy and class; it’s an insouciant salute to the big kid in all of us. It makes us say, like Leopold Bloom, I wanna be a producer, too.
This zany musical comedy comes bursting out of the Georgetown Palace stage like fireworks on the 4th of July.Yes, we all know the story. After all, the Mel Brooks film about fraudsters producing a Broadway musical was released in 1968, forty years ago.Brooks and co-writer Thomas Meehan turned it into a real Broadway musical in 2001, with musical numbers by Brooks, where it won an unprecedented 12 Tony awards and ran for 2500 performances. The …
Review: Nunsense by The Georgetown Palace Theatre
by Michael Meigs
Published on August 25, 2008
Imagine the sight of these sober-clad ladies grinning, wearing bright-colored tap shoes and stomping up a storm, and you’ll get an idea of the absurdly wonderful entertainment they provide.
How do you make holy water?” “I don’t know, how DO you make holy water?”“You boil the hell out of it!” Cornball, right? But funny, especially when the dialogue is between a couple of wisecracking nuns on either side of the audience. Nunsense, a (very) musical (very goofy) comedy at the Georgetown Palace Theatre in Georgetown, Texas is playing to packed houses of very amused Georgetownians. And Austinites will have a helluva a good …