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CUMMINGS: The Christmas Revels is a very special kind of theatrical performance.
It's a concert. But it's like a show because it has a storyline.
It's also interactive. The audience sings with us. They dance with use at intermission.
There are 10 other Revels cities throughout the country. We have the distinction of being
Revels North. We were the second Revels group to get started.
I'd say at least 10 percent of the cast are from, work in the Dartmouth community.
Laura Barrett, who's been with us for two years, she works at the Dartmouth college
library.
Harold Frost is a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering.
Christopher Levy is a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering.
Julie Frew works at DHMC
[music]
>> FREW: This is my third year doing the show but it's the first time that I'll be doing
it with Lydia and I'm really excited to be on stage with her and be going through production
week together. That's a very intense time where the cast spends many, many hours here
in the Hopkins Center.
And several of Lydia's friends from school and their families are in the show as well.
So it's kind of a nice thing for families to do together.
>> LEVY: The darkest time of the year is a time when we all need this sort of celebration.
And I think that's important to be doing it together and in a multicultural and multigenerational
way.
The wonderful part of Revels is that through the Hopkins Center and through hosting Revels,
it's an outreach to the broader community. So to the extent that many of us from Dartmouth
are involved, it is our outreach, it's not really, it's not an insular thing.
One of of the joys of being in Revels is working with some very talented professionals.
>> FREW: I am really fortunate this year, with Laura Barrett, to be doing a dance with
Pierre Chartrand, who is an amazing French Canadian step dancer.
So Laura and I and a number of other people from the show were really lucky to be able
to go up to Quebec in October to learn some of this dance form.
[music, applause]
>> CUMMINGS: We started out on the campus of Dartmouth College performing in Webster
Hall. And now we have the wonderful enjoyment of using the Spaulding Auditorium, which is
a fantastic venue for our show.
So we are going 36 years strong in the Upper Valley.
It's really a celebratory experience.
[group cheers]