Description: Home page of SAVE THE PALACE, a rock group from Waterbury, CT. An award-winning story about senior citizens with a rock and roll pedigree who come out of retirement to save the old Palace Theater and rejuvenate themselves in the process.
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EDDIE AND THE PALACEADES SAVE THE PALACE is an all original musical comedy.
Eddie and Gracie and Vinny and Isabel met in their teens when they all worked after school jobs at the Palace Theater. They discovered they all loved music so they started a band. They got to be pretty good, appearing on American Bandstand, Hullabaloo, the Ed Sullivan Show. In 1966, they opened for the Beatles on their last American Tour. The couples fell in love. When the girls got pregnant, Eddie declared "a hotel dresser drawer is no crib for a baby". They gave up their music careers to settle dow
After 25 years together, Eddie and Gracie still carry a crush for each other, but with daughter Mary grown and moved out, they are empty-nesters trying to decide what to do in their next act.