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Revels interactive performances feature the song, dance, musical and storytelling traditions of diverse cultures. We blend these elements into seasonal celebrations, demonstrating how differing cultures throughout the ages are fed by the same great river of myth, story and song.
Photo by Donn Mumma, 2022 Production.
The Christmas Revels 2024 show was: A 17th-Century English Village Celebration of the Winter Solstice.
It's set in a tiny hamlet in England's rural West Country during the Seventeenth Century. As the villagers are preparing to celebrate their annual Winter Solstice Festival, they debate whether or not magical creatures – fairies, elves, hobgoblins, dragons – exist or not. The pro-fairies faction plead their case by telling traditional English folk tales about human beings who have had close encounters with such creatures. In between the stories, the cast of the Christmas Revels production performs songs, carols and dances from England's Renaissance Era.
The Christmas Revels 2024 Photos
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Creative Team
Steve Kalke is excited to join Revels Houston and is looking forward to a great season. He serves as the Head Choir Director at McMeans Junior High School in Katy ISD. He has held that title for 14 years. His choirs have consistently earned both local and national attention including having been selected twice for the Music for All National Choir festival and twice won the Mark of Excellence Nation Choir Honors.
Steve holds a Masters Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Houston and has taught students of all ages for the past 40 years. Additionally, he has taught private vocal and piano lessons, and some of his students have gone on to professional singing careers. Steve is the proud father of three children and one grandchild, and the lucky husband of his wife, Angela.
Again this year, Sean Keith Thompson joins us as Stage Director. Sean has been involved with numerous theater companies in southeast Texas and has directed dozens of shows. He was honored to receive the 2022 Broadway World Award for Best Director, and was for several years Producer, Head Writer and Director of the Houston Press Club's annual satirical review, the Gridiron Show. Since 2010, Sean has been the Artistic Director of the community theater troupe which was known as Upstage Theatre when it was based in the Houston Heights area, and now is the Points North Theatre Company since its relocation to The Woodlands, where Sean also serves as News and Content Editor of the digital information resource website, Woodlands Online.
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