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The Christmas Revels
The primary presentation of each Revels company is The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice, a fully staged, elaborately costumed, full-length theatrical production that changes scripts, themes, and traditions from year to year. Uniquely, these performances include multiple elements: music, dance, and drama, as well as story-telling and seasonal rituals. While each show is unique, there are a number of recurring elements that help to tie the experience to the broader Revels tradition. All these facets combine with the special Revels hallmark of audience participation: getting people out of their seats to sing and dance.
Purposefully, our Revels casts are intergenerational, non-denominational and multi-ethnic; it is particularly important for us that—in a city like Santa Barbara—those who are onstage reflect and represent our community at large. Our cast of almost 70 actors, singers, dancers, and instrumentalists combines select volunteers with seasoned professionals, and the two groups inform and energize each other, to create moving drama, music of the highest caliber, and an atmosphere of magic and mystery. The National Endowment for the Arts called Revels a new form of musical theater. Charles Donelan of the Santa Barbara Independent described our production as “educational, traditional and simply fun.”
This Year's Show
An Early California Celebration of the Winter Solstice
Joining the De la Guerra family and their many friends who have come from near and far for the celebration, Richard Henry Dana and his shipmates enjoy festivities in Santa Barbara for the wedding of the Comandante’s daughter, described in Dana’s classic book, Two Years Before the Mast. This event inspires a lively exchange of traditions in music, dance, and storytelling from the land and sea during the time of the Spanish Ranchos.
The Christmas Revels is an exciting and heartwarming entertainment experience for every age and a favorite Santa Barbara holiday tradition created by and for our community for the past 13 years.
The primary presentation of each Revels company is The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice, a fully staged, elaborately costumed, full-length theatrical production that changes scripts, themes, and traditions from year to year. Uniquely, these performances include multiple elements: music, dance, and drama, as well as story-telling and seasonal rituals. While each show is unique, there are a number of recurring elements that help to tie the experience to the broader Revels tradition. All these facets combine with the special Revels hallmark of audience participation: getting people out of their seats to sing and dance.
Purposefully, our Revels casts are intergenerational, non-denominational and multi-ethnic; it is particularly important for us that—in a city like Santa Barbara—those who are onstage reflect and represent our community at large. Our cast of almost 70 actors, singers, dancers, and instrumentalists combines select volunteers with seasoned professionals, and the two groups inform and energize each other, to create moving drama, music of the highest caliber, and an atmosphere of magic and mystery. The National Endowment for the Arts called Revels a new form of musical theater. Charles Donelan of the Santa Barbara Independent described our production as “educational, traditional and simply fun.”
This Year's Show
An Early California Celebration of the Winter Solstice
Joining the De la Guerra family and their many friends who have come from near and far for the celebration, Richard Henry Dana and his shipmates enjoy festivities in Santa Barbara for the wedding of the Comandante’s daughter, described in Dana’s classic book, Two Years Before the Mast. This event inspires a lively exchange of traditions in music, dance, and storytelling from the land and sea during the time of the Spanish Ranchos.
The Christmas Revels is an exciting and heartwarming entertainment experience for every age and a favorite Santa Barbara holiday tradition created by and for our community for the past 13 years.
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