PUGET SOUND REVELS presents

PUGET SOUND REVELS
presents
in CELEBRATION of the WINTER SOLSTICE
with traditional
English dances,
processionals,
carols & drama
With TONY CURRY,
KEITH DAHLGREN
and KATE WITT
The Spirits of Haddon Chorus
Wee Spirits of Haddon
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
Saint George & the Dragon Mummers Play
Derbyshire Players
Seattle Brass Ensemble
BJ DOUGLAS, director
MEGAN OBERFIELD, music director
MARY E. LYNN, producer
2012 20th Anniversary Performances
Saturday, December 15 ★ 2:00 & 7:30pm
Sunday, December 16 ★ 1:00 & 5:30pm
Tuesday, December 18 ★ 7:30pm
Wednesday, December 19 ★ 7:30pm
RIALTO THEATER, Tacoma

INTRODUCTION
WELCOME! This year we are celebrating Puget Sound Revels’ 20th Anniversary
and we‘re delighted you are here for The Christmas Revels. For two decades
we have offered glimpses of the celebrations of times past and have invited
our present day community into the act and art of celebration. Imagine the
traditional arts as the seedbed of all the arts. Imagine the traditional arts
as nourishment that sustains the whole community. Imagine Puget Sound
Revels as a cultivator of that seedbed. For 20 years we’ve been turning the soil,
bringing the deep rich material of past communities into our own. A wellspring
of song, dance and story is the fruit of our efforts. What fun it has been.
The Christmas Revels is based on the old and varied traditions that arose in
response to winter – that time of the year when people gathered with laughter,
music, dance and story-telling to drive the dark away. Each year, we delve into
the traditions of a different time and place. Today we find ourselves in Haddon
Hall, the ancestral manor of the Dukes of Rutland in England’s Derbyshire. It is
a real place, not just a Revels fantasy. Nearly eight-hundred and fifty years ago
along the River Wye, construction of this great house began; the banquet hall
(in which our Revels takes place) was completed around 1370. For centuries it
has stood as its inhabitants are born, prosper and pass on; as styles and customs
change; as the political and economic life of the country around it evolve. It is a
tangible link to the generations that have preceded us.
Our Revels opens in December, 1925. The current Duke and his family have
taken an afternoon ride in the new motorcar for a last look at the grand but
derelict manor before it is demolished. They know the splendid old place has
hosted 800 years of their forbearers’ feasting and revelry. What they don’t know
is that it still hosts winter revelers. Tonight they’ll discover (and we with them)
that celebration ties us all together: generations past, present and – through
our children – future.
WELCOME YULE!
Thanks beyond words are due to BJ Douglas and
Megan Oberfield. Each year this remarkably
talented duo brings beauty, magic and laughter to
the Rialto and beyond. We are all grateful.
It is expressly forbidden to use photographic or sound recording equipment
during the performance. Unauthorized persons found using such equipment
will be asked to leave or will be magically returned to the 12th century.

FIRST PART
1. Overture
The Seattle Brass has played with us for every Christmas Revels. Lucky us!
SEATTLE BRASS ENSEMBLE
2. Masters in This Hall
A medieval tune from Chartres with words by William Morris (1834-1896).
SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS AND BELLS SEATTLE BRASS ENSEMBLE
DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS
3. Call to Celebration
An excerpt from the poem “Nativity” by W.R. Rogers.
MOTLEY
4. Deck the Hall
A Welsh New Year’s Eve carol, “Nos Galen” (New Year’s Night).
See the blazing Yule before us…
Strike the harp and join the chorus…
Follow me in merry measure…
While I tell of Yuletide treasure…
~ALL SING~
Deck the hall with boughs of holly. Fa-la-la…
‘Tis the season to be jolly. Fa-la-la…
Don we now our gay apparel. Fa-la-la…
Troll the ancient Yule-tide carol. Fa-la-la…
Fast away the old year passes…
Hail the new, ye lads and lasses…
Sing we joyous, all together…
Heedless of the wind and weather…
5. Morris Stick Dance
No one is sure where and when the tradition of Morris dancing began. References to the “Morryce”
date from the Middle Ages.
WYE ME STICK TEAM ADAM FURMAN, fiddle
6. Gloucestershire Wassail
The wassailers went singing from house to house, farm to farm, with a wassail cup hoping their
hosts would fill it to ensure good luck and abundance. From the Anglo-Saxon wes-hal meaning
“be whole” or “be well!”
SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS SEATTLE BRASS ENSEMBLE
7. Apple Tree Wassail
This ritual folk song from Somerset reflects the early origin of the carol, which involved dancing –
usually in a ring, in this case around an apple tree – to bring good luck and encourage its growth.
WEE SPIRITS OF HADDON SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS
DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS

8. Jenny Pluck Pears
A country dance from John Playford’s The English Dancing Master, 1651, here arranged by
Shulamit Kleinerman.
THE SPIRITS OF HADDON DANCERS DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS
9. Wee Spirits of Haddon
We’ve Been Awhile A-Wandering
A traditional waits carol from Yorkshire.
Dame, Get Up and Bake Your Pies
A dancing game for Christmas time.
10. There Is No Rose of Swych Vertu
Filled with mystical imagery, this anonymous early 15th-century carol follows the medieval custom of
mixing Latin with the vernacular.
SPIRITS OF HADDON WOMEN
11. Holly and the Ivy
This old carol celebrates two traditionally important Christmas plants that symbolize the renewal of
life since they are evergreen, even fruiting, in the winter.
SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS KATE WITT & MEGAN OBERFIELD, singers
DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS
12. Elizabethan Set – Derbyshire Players
The Fourth
An example of two-voiced counterpoint (interwoven melodies) in Elizabethan composer Thomas
Morley’s Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597)
Bobbing Joe
A country dance tune from Playford, arranged by Shulamit Kleinerman.
13. On Christmas Night
A traditional tune collected by Ralph Vaughn Williams in 1904 in Sussex. The earliest printed version
of the text appeared in 1684 in the popular book Smale Garland of Pious and Godly Songs.
SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS AND BELLS SEATTLE BRASS ENSEMBLE
DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS
14. The Lord of Misrule
At the time of the Feasts of Fools in the Middle Ages, a Lord of Misrule was chosen from the “common
folk,” to rule over the topsy-turvy revelry that marked the Twelve Days of Christmas.
15. A Counting Song
Sometimes called the “Dilly Song,” this song from Devon and Cornwall is related to Green Grow the
Rushes-O, but contains more ancient and universal images. Join in as you wish!
WEE SPIRITS OF HADDON SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS
DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS TIM HELMING, Percussion
16. Winter Wakenth All My Cares
From The Harley Lyrics (also called Harley MS 2253), one of the richest sources of mediaeval English
lyrics dated ca. 1340. It contains secular and devotional prose and verse. No music survives with the
texts. This setting is by John Fleagle.
HEATHER URSCHEL, soloist
17. Invitation to the Dance
A seasonal poem by Patrick Swanson.
BOB MATTHEWS

18. Lord of the Dance
Part I closes, as it does every year, with Sydney Carter’s contemporary lyrics to the Shaker song
“Simple Gifts.” Carol Langstaff’s choreography is a compilation of Morris steps from various
Cotswold village traditions.
MARK O’KELLY, singer SEATTLE BRASS ENSEMBLE
STEPHEN NESHYBA and ALEXANDER GARZON, dancers
JOE WHELAN, alternate
~ALL SING & DANCE!~
Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he.
~INTERMISSION~
(There will be a 15-minute intermission.)
SECOND PART
19. In the Bleak Midwinter
This setting by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) of a poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) has become a
beloved Christmas season carol.
WEE SPIRITS OF HADDON
20. Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
This ancient ritual dance for good luck in hunting the stag is still danced every year in the little
village of Abbots Bromley, England. Carbon dating of the reindeer antlers used in Abbots Bromley
dates them to 900 CE, about the time of the Danish invasion. Its four supernumerary characters –
he Folk Fool, the Man-Woman, the Hobby Horse, the Boy Archer – link it with the mumming
traditions of Christmas.
ABBOTS BROMLEY DANCERS CHRIS BRIDEN, viola da gamba
21. Owt Of Your Slepe Aryse
A 15th century composition for three voice parts. “Of all women she [the Virgin Mary] beareth the
bell” is likely a reference to the lead sheep in a flock, or “bellwether.”
THE SPIRITS OF HADDON WOMEN
22. All Hail to the Days
The words and the tune of this jaunty broadside ballad first appeared in collections in the 17th century.
SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS SEATTLE BRASS ENSEMBLE
DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS
23. Wee Spirits of Haddon
The Wren Song
This ancient song about the hunting of the wren, bringer of luck in the new years, survives today
in a December 26 tradition in Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Tomorrow the Fox
Thomas Ravenscroft published this “melodius Musicke” in his 1609 collection Deuteromelia.

24. Medieval Set – Derbyshire Players, with Sarah Comer on violin
Stantipes
Originally for keyboard, with complicated harmonies and rhythms, this anonymous dance piece is
from the mid-14th century Robertsbridge Codex, from a Cistercian monastery in Sussex, England.
Nota
The tune is from an interesting 13th-14th century manuscript from Coventry, England, that contains
local legal documents, a reissue of the Magna Carta and several pieces of music and poetry.
25. Rejoice, Ye Tenants of the Earth
Originally published by the Somerset composer William Gifford as “A Hymn for Christmas Day 1817,”
this became a favorite of southwest England’s west gallery caroling parties. Our version, edited by
Dave Townsend, is based on the parts found in the Thomas Hardy manuscripts, collated with versions
from various other Dorset manuscripts.
SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS
26. English Country Dance
“Hole in the Wall” is one of many pieces written by Henry Purcell as incidental music for plays. This
one was published in John Playford’s 1698 edition of “The Dancing Master.”
SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS DERBYSHIRE PLAYERS
27. Twelve Days of Christmas
A traditional English ‘forfeit’ carol.
28. Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace)
The origin of this melody is unknown. Its words are from the Latin Mass.
~ALL SING~

29. St George and the Dragon Mummers play
A version of the traditional mummers play, which celebrates the rites of fertility, death and rebirth.
The sword dance and ritual execution survive from a time when the death of the hero or “Year King,”
was considered necessary to ensure fertility. The “lock” formed by the dancers’ swords symbolizes the
sun and the cutting down of the old so the new can spring to life.
BAKEWELL VILLAGE MUMMERS CUTTING EDGE SWORD TEAM
30. Alle Psallite Cum Luya
An anonymous 13th c. motet from the Montepelier codex. This codex, compiled into its present form
in Paris in around 1300, is the largest source of medieval motets in the world.
THE SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS & BELLS
31. The Shortest Day
Written for Revels by Susan Cooper in 1977, this poem is part of Christmas Revels performances
throughout the country.
9TH DUKE OF RUTLAND
32. Sussex Mummers Carol
Traditionally sung by the Christmas Mummers in the Horsham district of Sussex, England, this carol
has become a Revels tradition as it closes every Christmas Revels production. The brass arrangement
is by Brian Holmes, with descant and final verse harmonization by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
THE SPIRITS OF HADDON CHORUS WEE SPIRITS OF HADDON
SEATTLE BRASS ENSEMBLE
~ALL SING~
WELCOME YULE!

THE PLAYERS
FEATURING Tony Curry as Motley
Keith Dahlgren & Kate Witt as the Ninth Duke & Duchess of Rutland
Sophie Clements as Frances; Adam Furman as Charles
The Spirits of Haddon Chorus
Elliott Barnett
Debbie Birkey
Molly Callender*
Tanya Carter
Ruth Chaffee
Sarah Comer
George Edman*
Brian Franzman*
Amanda Franzman*
Veronica Halte
Anne Jones
Megan Jones
Loren Kelley
Karen Konrad
Steve Lane
Erin Longley
Bob Matthews
Anna Neshyba
Steven Neshyba
The Wee Spirits of Haddon
Isabella Amaya
Cadence Campbell
Sophie Clements
Rachel Davie
Amaya Dickerson-Leech
Allie Epperson
Adam Furman
Titus Lindsay
Mark O’Kelly
Matt Oberfield
Megan Oberfield, song leader
Julie Olson
Ashley Ortenzo
Claire Rowe
Elizabeth Scheimer
Shirley Schultz
Norm Seidel*
Harold Smelt
Holly Smelt
Lois Trapp
Heather Urschel
Jordyn Ward
Carrie Washburn
Joseph Whelan
*Bell ringer
Daniel Neshyba-Rowe
Kelsey Pittsford
Isabella Royster
Eleanor Swanger
Adrian Urschel-Speir
Sebastian Weigel
Jessie Wheeler
Derbyshire Players
Shulamit Kleinerman, renaissance violin, vielle
Joanne Andrus, recorder, percussion, gemshorn
Chris Briden, viola da gamba
Seattle Brass Ensemble
Steve Hagen, trumpet
Ben McDonald, trumpet
Laurie Heidt, horn
Tim Schartz, trombone
Ed Phillips, tuba/bass trombone
with Tim Helming, timpani
Wye Me Stick Team
James Halte
Susan Garrett
Alexander Garzon
Scott Larsen
Autumn Mitchell, Captain
Joe Whelan, Computerinstruction
Assistance
Cutting Edge Sword Team
Elliott Barnett
George Edman
Loren Kelley
Anna Neshyba
Steven Neshyba, Captain/alternate
Noah Wingard
Joe Whelan, Computerinstruction
Assistance
Abbots Bromley Dancers
Elliott Barnett, captain
Brian Franzman, hobby horse
Loren Kelley
Steven Neshyba, captain
Mark O’Kelly, alternate
Matt Oberfield
Norm Seidel
Harold Smelt, Bet
Sebastian Weigel, boy archer
Joe Whelan, fool
Noah Wingard
Bakewell Village Mummers
Debbie Birkey, Janey Jack
Sarah Comer, Fool
Tony Curry, Doctor
Keith Dahlgren, St George #2
Steven Neshyba, St George #1
Matt Oberfield, Dragon
Mark O’Kelly, Father Christmas
Ashley Ortenzo, Room
Paul Bert, Christine Osness
ASL Interpreters

PRODUCTION TEAM
B.J. Douglas ................................. Stage Director
Megan Oberfield .......................... Music Director
Debbie Birkey ............... Children’s Music Director
Carmen Mettler .............Stage & Production Mgr
Alex Lewington ........ Costume Designer/Milliner
Martin Christoffel ............................Set Designer
Alex Berry .............................. Lighting Designer
Helen Edwards .............Assistant Stage Manager
Autumn Mitchell, Julia Collier .... Assistant Stage
Manager Interns
Laurie Halte ................................... Kid Wrangler
Jon Schroeder ..............................TD/Set Builder
Steve LaBerge ........................Potentate of Props
Melissa Metzler ....... Dragonmaker & Add’l Props
Donna Long, Susan Smith,
Debbie Birkey ..............................More Props
Sass Ruthven, Ruth Nelson,
Margaret Clogston ......... Costume Assistants
Shirley Sommer, Tracy Berryman ..........Stitchers
Margaret Treleven .......................Graphic Design
Sean Nash ................................... BCPA Ticketing
Thacker Graphics ....................................Printing
Chinook Productions ............Audio/Video Taping
Mark Thomason ........ BCPA Production Manager
Ross Mulhausen ............................Photographer
Mary Lynn .................... Benevolent Manipulator
All stage equipment is operated by employees represented by I.A.T.S.E. Local 15.
PUGET SOUND REVELS 2013 CALENDAR
Make sure we have your email address, so you’ll hear about our 2013 activities, including our
Spring Salon Series and Christmas Revels auditions.
February (date TBA): Spring Salon I – Mary K McNeill, Children Sing for Peace founder, draws
everyone into the joy of music with songs and rounds, humming, foot tapping and finger snapping. This
salon is especially appropriate for all ages.
March (date TBA): Spring Salon II – Chris Roe, singer, instrumentalist and songwriter, will bring us
songs in her clear warm style that are new, old and somewhere in between.
March (date TBA): Pub Sing
April (date TBA): Spring Salon III – Harpist, singer, songwriter, storyteller Seumus Gagne combines
his classical training with traditional Scottish and Irish music to offer us music, humor and wit. His salon
includes cello, fiddle, percussion and back-up singers.
May 1: May Day Celebration – Songs, dances, flower crowns and more to welcome lovely May.
May (date TBA): Spring Salon IV – Shulamit Kleinerman, performing in this year’s Christmas
Revels, presents an unusual and engaging concert of Early Music. She’ll introduce us to the vielle
(medieval fiddle) through her beautiful playing; then introduce us to the talented early instrumentalists
(ages 12 – 15) she teaches who sing medieval music and play vielles, harp and percussion.
June 8: Annual Brunch at Edgewood Garden
June (date TBA): Children’s Theater Camp – The children will work with Tony Curry (featured
performer in this year’s Christmas Revels) and our own children’s music director Debbie Birkey to create
their own musical in a week! Too fun!
September 2: Abbots Bromliad
September 20: Tacoma Sings – Singing on the Chihuly Bridge of Glass to sing-out summer and
sing-in autumn.

FRIENDS OF REVELS
In 1993, fifty-seven donors helped produce our Spring Revels. Many, many thanks to these first
57 and to all the supporters who have joined us since then. Loads of thanks to donors listed in
bold italics for their multi-year pledges.
ANGELS
Belina Interiors
Barb Berry
Paul & Debbie Birkey*
Luther Black & Chris Wright*
Dale & Joanna Chesnut*
Dimmer Family Foundation
Edman Company
Florence Kilworth Foundation
Fuchs Foundation
Len & Estelle Guyt
Gail McConnell*
Matt Oberfield*
Megan Oberfield*
Gary & Sissy Peterman*
Shirley Schultz*
Sequoia Foundation
Sandy & Andy Smith
BENEFACTORS
Jeanne Dryfoos
George & Laura Edman*
Anne & Kevin Jones
Lily Koblenz* & Majeed Al-
Mateen
Nancy Loritz
Jim & Barbara Miller
Morton McGoldrick, Attnys at Law
Ruth Nelson*
Granya & Bruce O’Neill
Merigold B. Paul
Gwen & Phil Phibbs
Lois & Ron Trapp*
PATRONS
Elliott Barnett & Erin Longley
Stacy & Steve Carlson
Greg, Heather & Virginia Davidson
Dorothy Dedrick
Amanda & Brian Franzman
Geraghty Family
Steve Tarry & Inga Holmquist*
Melody Jowell
Christine & Po Karczewski
Jim Legro & Cynthia Lorch in honor
of Mary Lynn
Sharon Lofton* in memory of
Bruce Linn
Sherri & Tom Lynn in memory of
Val Lynn & Doug Edwards
Mary Lynn* in memory of
Val Lynn & Doug Edwards
Pat & Judy Manza
Scott Miller & Ruth Chaffee*
Megan Moholt
Rita & Robert Moore
James & Laurie Morgan
Julie & Nick Olson*
Lynn & Ed Raisl
Janice Sigurdson
Christie & Mike Smith
Gloria Stancich &
Donna Douglass
Mrs. Ellyn Swanson
Richard Tandy
Debbie Walker
Carrie Washburn*
Ann Williams & John Taylor
SPONSORS
Burt Ballentine
Michael & Kay Balston
James Bentley
Clint & Ruth Cannon
Tom Conser
Martha Curwen*
Allan* & Lisa Dreyer
Molly & Tal Edman
Kurt Erlanson
Lin & Paula Hendrich
Catherine Hennessey
Mark & Wendy Holcomb
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Horn
Dan & Heather Irwin
Dennis & Liz Johnson
Cynthia Lorch
Anne Low
Robert Lynn & Connie Linesch
Bob Matthews
Robert & Eileen McCaffery-Lent
Sally & Carl Middleton
Steven Neshyba & Penny Rowe
Kerry O’Connell
Clare Petrich
Alan & Andrea Rabinowitz
Florence Sandler
Kathleen Schultz & Gary Gretch
in honor of Shirley Schultz
Pat Shuman & Dave Edwards
John Simpkins*
Monty Smith in honor of
Isaac & Hannah
Robert & Sylvia Summers
Anne Tsuneishi
Heather Urschel &
Michael Speir*
Marty & Mike Webb*
Roberta Wright
CONTRIBUTORS
2 anonymous
John Atwill & Laura Clark Hull
Nancy Ahrens
Joan Benderson & Tony Paulson
Lillie Byrd
Claire-Woldt Family
Mary Ann Coble
Julie Davidson
B.J. Douglas* & Eric Franklin
Dana Ekblad
Audrey & John Eyler
Paige Franke
Grant &Laura Gardner
Alexander & Shelly Garzon
Wayne & Elizabeth Gilham
Karen Goettling
Becky Hanks
Jean Hayes
Hal & Georgia Howell
Sam Hranac
Jean Huskamp
Bob & Sherry Jenkins
Judy Kirkreit
Ellen Kritzman
David LaBerge & Jan Lawry
Renae Lewandowski
Rick & Joan Lorenz*
Diane Malone
Jerry Monahan
Jeanne Myers
Kay Nichols
Ashley Ortenzo
Bill & Iris Pellettieri
Margo Reich

William & Dorothy Rhodes
Beatrice Roy
Wally & Bev Sauby
Harold & Holly Smelt
Susan Smith
Robin & Jeff Strong*
Lani Su
Debra Talbert
Pamela Thompson*
Susan Troxell
Will Vargish & Lois Bernstein
Kathy Vinyard
Puyallup Dermatology Clinic
Ginger, John & Hannah Weaver
Witsoe/Tebow Family
Carla Wulfsberg*
DONORS
4 Anonymous
Anonymous in honor of Scott
Miller & Ruth Chaffee
Anonymous in memory of
“Sweetie”
Carrie Alger
Kay Atwood & Don Lennartson
Barbara Ball
Diane Banks
Monique Bellizzi
Dorothy Blake
Dr. Carola Bosenberg
Joan Brown
Milissa Burkey
Lucinda & Jerome Capers
Carrol Clemens
Janie Cummingham
Ruth Daugherty
Mike & Kathy Davis
Helen Engle
Elizabeth Estep
Bruce & Paula Foreman
Eagle Song Gardener
Nancy Hausauer
Mary R. Henry
Margaret Howard
Cindi Irish
Sally Jacky
Janice Johnson
Valerie Johnstone
David Kenworthy
Barbara Kimbrough
Victoria Krause
Janet Kurz
Susan Mattern
Joan McConnell
Valorie Medcalf
Shirley Mikel
Jane Monarch
Laura Neal-McCollum
Dianne Niemann
Sandra Olsen
Evelyn Osborne
Donald & Deloris Pederson
Donna Pierce
Craig & Diane Pollard
Irene Potter
Jane Reamer*
Anita Reeves
Kathleen Reilly op
Pamela Roberts
Lisa Robinson
Sharon Russell
Jerry & Gean Smith
Carol Sorensen
Jackie Stenger
Rex & Jan Swartz
Ann Trail
Kristie Vetter
Kathy Westlin
Dorothy Wilhelm
Agnes Wilson
Susan Wineke
AUCTION ITEM DONORS
(* starred names above were also
auction donors)
The Bread Peddler
Martin Christoffel
Corina’s Bakery
Molly Callender
Patti & Ron Cummins
Hal Geiersbach
Harp & Shamrock
Hess Bakery
Highland Golf Course
Kati Irons
Jasminka
Loren Kelley
Max LaBerge
Nick LaBerge
Andre LeRest
LeRoy Jewelers
Alex Lewington
Donna Long
Mary Mann
Carmen Mettler
Melissa Metzler
Chris Roe
Barbara & Keith Roidl-Ward
Sass Ruthven
Jill Sousa
Peter Wimberger
Karen York
IN–KIND GIFTS
Antique Sandwich Company
Belina Interiors
Luther Black & Chris Wright
Dale & Joanna Chesnut
Martin Christoffel
Columbia Bank
Edman Company
Helen Engle
Jean Huskamp
Ilga Jansons & Michael Dryfoos
Kelley Piano Service
King’s Books
Leroy Jewelers
The News Tribune
John Simpkins
MATCHING GIFTS
Google
Microsoft

THANK YOU…
WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR REVELS TO THRIVE? It takes all the donors on the previous pages, all the
volunteers on this page, all the players and production people, great and enthusiastic audiences and lots
of goodwill and encouragement in our community. Hurrah for Revels that all these things have come
together. Many of the people below have helped multiple times for multiple events, which include our
spring salons, spring sing, office organizing and cleaning, June brunch, Children’s Summer Solstice Play
Day, mailings, data entry, Abbots Bromliad, TacomaSings, Flinging Joy On-line Auction and Concert,
Christmas Revels production assistance AND the work of the Revels Board. Great, great thanks are due
to this stalwart band of volunteers.
Carol Anderson, Kay Balston, Elliott Barnett. Christine Beasley, Debbie Birkey, Paul Birkey, Luther Black,
David Boe, Jane Burster, Ruth Chaffee, Dale & Joanna Chesnut, Mary Ann Coble, Martha Curwen, Jo
Davies, Lisa Dreyer, Michael Dryfoos, Dana Eckblad, George Edman, Helen Edwards, Sam Edwards,
Amanda & Brian Franzman, Hal Geiersbach, Jan Giles, Carol Glickwell, Karen Goettling, James & Laurie
Halte, Kay Hart, Jeannie Huskamp, Ilga Jansons, Jan Jepson, Jeannie Johnson, Liz Johnson, Anne Jones,
Loren Kelley, Donna Long, Mary Lynn, Gail McConnell, Kerry McConnell, Melissa Metzler, Mary Miville,
Barbara Mitchell, Betsy Moschetti, Kay Nichols, Susannah Nuriel, Megan Oberfield, Matt Oberfield, Kerry
O’Connell, Merigold Paul, Lynn Raisl, Estelle Reid, Jean Ruggles, Kathy Schuknecht, Martha Scoville, Monty
Smith, Christie Smith, Susan Smith, Hermine Soler, Pam Thompson, Ron & Lois Trapp, Susan Troxell,
Debbie Walker, Aaron Wiesenfeld, Andrew Wiesenfeld, Carrie Washburn, Marty Webb, Christina Wright
Thanks to Tacoma Little Theater for loaning props; to First Methodist Church for loaning us their bells,
for the pews onstage and for lots of rehearsal space; to Dale Chesnut and Paul Birkey for rolling stock,
comraderie and encouragement; to The Washington State History Museum for their help and support of
our 20th Anniversary Concert. Many thanks to all the people at the Broadway Center, including the great
ticket office staff, for their support of the arts in Tacoma. And thanks, thanks, thanks to Revels, Inc and
all the Revels organizations across the country for partnering with us in the joyous work of cultivating
community through joy.
PUGET SOUND REVELS ® BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Luther Black • Debbie Birkey • Lisa Dreyer • Brian Franzman
Gail McConnell • Gary Peterman • Pam Thompson • Carrie Washburn
STAFF Mary Lynn, Executive Director • Marrissa Coccaro, PR Intern • Marisa Zapata, Development Intern
MISSION STATEMENT: To build community through the arts using traditional music, dance, and drama drawn
from many cultures. We offer theater productions, singing opportunities, seasonal celebrations, and educational
opportunities for all ages. www.pugetsoundrevels.org
We welcome your interest and involvement. To be added to our mailing and /or audition and volunteer lists,
call 253-756-1804 or write psrevels@aol.com. Founded in 1992, we license the name The Christmas Revels
from Revels, Inc (Watertown, MA). Companies now exist
in: Boulder, CO; Hanover, NH; Houston, TX; New York, NY;
Oakland, CA; Portland, OR; Tacoma, WA; Santa Barbara,
CA; Washington, DC.
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