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n. (plural of revel English)
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Revels is a contemporary series of American seasonal stage performances, initially given at Christmas time as the Christmas Revels at Town Hall in New York City in 1957, which involve singing, dancing, recitals, theatrics (usually as brief skits, often humorous), and usually some audience participation, all appropriate to the season. Performers are usually local, often non-professional, and frequently young.
The events were founded by John Langstaff as Christmas entertainments and the present organization, Revels, Inc., produces events in ten cities across the United States, including many others in the spring and summer in many locations.
Langstaff and his daughter Carol started producing "The Christmas Revels" again in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971, at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, where it has frequently played to sold-out houses. Revels troupes are active across the United States, with four in the northeast region of the U.S.
Revels is an American series of annual theatrical events.
Revels may also refer to:
- Revels (confectionery), a chocolate product made by Mars, Inc.
- Revels (festival), the annual cultural festival of the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka, India
- Master of the Revels, a position in the British royal household
Revels are a chocolate coated confectionery with assorted centres made by Mars, Inc. They were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1967.
Originally, Revels had orange creme, coconut, toffee, or peanut centres, along with Galaxy Counters ( Minstrels minus exterior shell) and Maltesers. However, the coconut centres were later replaced with coffee creme, and the peanuts with raisins.
Revels is the annual culfest (cultural festival) of Manipal Institute of Technology, a constituent college of Manipal University, held in the even semester of every academic year, i.e. the second semester of the year, in or around the month of March.
Usage examples of "revels".
And vast infinities away, past the Gate of Deeper Slumber and the enchanted wood and the garden lands and the Cerenarian Sea and the twilight reaches of Inquanok, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep strode brooding into the onyx castle atop unknown Kadath in the cold waste, and taunted insolently the mild gods of earth whom he had snatched abruptly from their scented revels in the marvellous sunset city.
Without pausing to except or qualify, or to be thoroughly informed and just, they included the ancient stern generations and their own degraded contemporaries, the vile rites of the Corinthian Aphrodite and the solemn service of Demeter, the furious revels of the Bacchanalians and the harmonious mental worship of Apollo, all in one indiscriminate charge of insane beastliness and idolatry.
Rugged old Tertullian, in whose torrid veins the fire of his African deserts seems infused, revels with infernal glee over the contemplation of the sure damnation of the heathen.
He never left it on a residential street, understanding the insomnia of the elderly and the late-night revels of the young.
Walpurgis revels would be held in the dark ravine beyond Meadow Hill where the old white stone stands in a place queerly devoid of all plant-life.
In the tower of the great temple the priests held revels, and in pavilions without the walls the princes of neighboring lands made merry.
Mumbled tales of the weird rites and godless revels of bygone years in the ancient hall gave to me a new and potent interest in the tomb, before whose door I would sit for hours at a time each day.
Master of Revels, his business the orchestration of the public ceremonies and entertainments of the Endarkened Court.