The Christmas Revels Celebrate the Winter Solstice

Name: The Christmas Revels Celebrate the Winter Solstice
Start: 2021-12-17T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2021-12-29T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Sanders Theatre

Enjoy a mix of yesteryear's song with today's dance.

The Christmas Revels Victorian Chorus Roger Ide

By Cheryl Fenton

November 24, 2021

Event Link

https://revels.org/

Event Ticket Link

https://www.boxoffice.harvard.edu/Online/default.asp

Revel in some Christmas cheer (and a little time travel) as the Cambridge Revels community gathers in Harvard University’s historic Sanders Theatre for its 51^st year of celebrating the season. This year’s festivities take place in present day George and Dragon, a 17th-century English pub famous for its annual Christmas carol sing-along party. As Christmas approaches and the locals are worried about the party after COVID closures, a Revels bureaucrat and his entourage unexpectedly pop in from Elizabethan time to bring traditional 17^th century festivities to today’s pomp and circumstance. Thanks to a new collaboration with the City Ballet of Boston’s “Urban Nutcracker,” music and dance from Renaissance time collide with a pub band horn section and 21st century street-wise locals. And, of course, there will be a beloved sing-along for all.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on December 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, and 27; 3 p.m. on December 18, 23, 27, and 28; 1 p.m. on December 19, 26, and 29; and 5:30 p.m. on December 19 and 26. An enhanced, live video recording of the 2021 Christmas Revels will be available for anytime viewing from December 30 through January 9.