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Vincent van Gogh, Hospital at Saint-Rémy, October 1889. Oil on canvas. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Armand Hammer Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. 1130 State Street Santa Barbara, CA

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Revels Redux: by Steven Libowitz

Original Show Comes Back

Luis, Frank and Paula in The Christmas Revels: An Early California Celebration of the Winter Solstice

More than a dozen community companies around the country present Christmas The Early California Christmas Revels is based on actual events from the 1830s that form the backbone of Revels performances this December, including such places as Lebanon, New Hampshire; Boulder, Colorado; and Oakland, each of which reworks shows created by the flagship company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The shows bring together people of all ages and backgrounds — both on stage and in the audience — to enjoy musical and theatrical presentations of our world’s cultural and seasonal traditions.

But none of them will come close to the local connection of the story being shared this weekend by Santa Barbara’s own Revels, which is bringing back The Christmas Revels: An Early California Celebration of the Winter Solstice. That’s because the original show was created to celebrate the company’s 10th anniversary in 2017, bringing to life a slide of Santa Barbara’s own history from nearly two centuries ago, when Yankee sailors met Spanish Rancheros at Casa de la Guerra. a traditional Revels winter show, that features the company of more than 60 singers, actors, dancers, and instrumentalists decked in costumes in the fully staged production that this year boasts segments of sea shanties, Spanish dances, Christmas carols, the Mexican religious festival Las Posadas, plus Chumash storytelling along with the standard Revels fare. The action takes place at a celebration for the upcoming wedding of Anita de la Guerra, daughter of the Presidio’s comandante Jose, to Alfred Robinson, local representative for a Boston-based hide and tallow trading company. Richard Henry Dana — a young Harvard student spending a year at sea with the sailor/tradesman — recorded the events in his classic book Two Years Before the Mast. The Thomas Fire forced half of the 2017 per-

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