Summer Workshops at the Palace Theatre

Saturday was an eventful, busy and fun day spent at Georgetown’s Palace Theatre.    The culmination of weeks of work in the theater’s summer acting workshops for kids was the main event for kids, not to mention the proud parents and family friends in attendance for their performances.  Overseeing the hustle and bustle were Gwen Dicapo, the Palace’s education coordinator, with plenty of assistance from director Danielle Ruth and costume wizard  Annie Violette.  Both Ruth and Violette are Palace acting veterans.  Violette is currently appearing onstage in “Hank Williams: Lost Highway.”    My images focused (no pun intended) on boys and girls in the 10-12 age group, who were putting on three separate “Disney Review” performances on the theater’s Springer Memorial Stage.    Also, 7-9 age group kids put on their own productions of “The Unity Tree” at the Palace Playhouse during afternoon performances.   Later this month, teens who’ve been to their own workshops this summer will present “Into the Wood” on the main stage.   It’s a good thing to see kids interested in the arts, particularly something like this, where kids get to face their fears, and grow in a good way.   These images were made for my friends at the Williamson County Sun.