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PRESS RELEASE
October 29, 2007
Press Contact: Alan Casso 617-972-8300 ext. 22 or acasso@revels.org
Revels is pleased to announce that Chris Jorie, Resident Director and company member
of Florida’s Orlando Theatre Project, has been awarded the Revels Fellowship for
2007- 2008. Mr. Jorie will be in residence at Revels in Watertown, MA, collaborating
with Artistic Director, Patrick Swanson, (Director, KING LEAR at La Mama & Actor’s
Shakespeare Project, Boston) and Revels Music Director and arranger, George Emlen -
creating the new work, SUMMERSDAY, a free, multi-stage solstice celebration to be
presented along Boston’s Fort Point Channel during the Summer of 2008. In addition to
collaborating on SUMMERSDAY, Chris is directing and writing for Revels Rep, the company's
touring troupe, as well as assisting Swanson and Emlen in rehearsals for CHRISTMAS
REVELS. Jorie says "It is an honor and pleasure to be working with this extraordinarily
creative group of people, witnessing new ways to process drama, dance, and
music."
Revels, best-known for its annual CHRISTMAS REVELS theatrical production at Harvard
University’s Sanders Theatre each December, is a non-profit, interdisciplinary,
intercultural, performing arts organization with production companies in nine US cities
including the Boston/Cambridge area. Jorie has been awarded the first ever Revels
Fellowship for his distinguished work as a director and writer. Jorie’s directing credits
include, Anne Nelson’s, SAVAGES, Off-Broadway for BackHouse Productions, (IN THE
HEIGHTS.) Regional credits include this Season’s critically acclaimed productions of
SOUVENIR, by Stephen Temperley, and A BODY OF WATER, by Lee Blessing for Orlando
Theatre Project, the oldest Equity Theatre Company in the Central Florida area. Jorie’s
additional credits include regional premieres of PROOF, SPINNING INTO BUTTER, and WIT for
OTP, as well as SEE ROCK CITY, HAVING OUR SAY, THE OLD SETTLER, and PICASSO AT
THE LAPIN AGILE nationally.
October 24, 2007
Discovery Astronauts Wake Up to Revels Music
Wednesday's Wake-Up Music: "Lord of the Dance" by John Langstaff
Wednesday's wakeup music for the Shuttle Discovery astronauts, beamed up
from NASA's mission control in Houston, was a recording of John Langstaff
singing "Lord of the Dance" from Revels Records' 1978 release, The Christmas Revels: In
Celebration of the Winter Solstice". Revels, a performing arts company started by
Langstaff and his daughter Carol back in 1971, is primarily known for their music and
large-scale seasonal celebrations like "The Christmas Revels" opening in nine cities across
the country this December, but over the years, the company has produced a number
of award-winning music books and CDs, "The Christmas Revels" among them.
"Good morning Discovery, and a special good morning to you today, Pam,"
astronaut Shannon Lucid radioed. "Welcome to your first full space day."
"Thanks, Shannon," replied Shuttle Commander Pam Melroy....That was one of my
favorite songs. Thanks to my husband Doug. I love you."
"And we all really enjoyed the music, too, Pam," Houston replied.
"Lord of the Dance" features modern lyrics by Sydney Carter to the Shaker tune,
"Simple Gifts" and opens with the astronaut-appropriate lyrics, "I danced in the morning
when the earth was begun. I danced in the moon, and the stars, and the sun".
The Cambridge Symphonic Brass accompanies Langstaff on the recording.
Langstaff , who passed away in December 2005, performed the song for many years on
stage in "The Christmas Revels" in Cambridge until his retirement in 1995. Singer David
Coffin has performed that role ever since.
LISTEN TO THE WAKE UP MUSIC AND HOUSTON AND PAM
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REVIEWS |
Savages -
Anne Nelson's historical drama has a lacerating beauty. Set in Manila, 1902, during the
raging Philippine-American War, it manages to compress a continuous cycle of conquest
and retribution into one night of charged encounters between a naïve young soldier (Brett
Holland), whose job it is to guard an ailing military officer on trial, and the Filipina nurse
Maridol (Julie Danao-Salkin), who is there to ease the accused man's suffering before his
trial resumes again in the morning. Major Waller (James Matthew Ryan) is like a figure out
of Conrad - bloodshot and ravaged, accused of enigmatic crimes, half-mad with memory.
Nelson, a former war correspondent, brings eloquence to this wartime drama, and the
director, Chris Jorie, elicits quietly incisive work from his cast.
The New Yorker 3/27/06 |
Coyote On A Fence -
“In Orlando Theatre Project’s eloquent production of the drama, Chris Jorie, one of the
most sensitive directors around, has led his skillful, savvy cast to avoid the easy
choices...”
Orlando Sentinel 1/8/05 |
See Rock City -
“Director Chris Jorie has given Hutton’s play a lovely little production - handsome,
leisurely, and filled with compassion for the characters and their lot. “
Orlando Sentinel 5/3/06 |
Wit -
“This revival by the Orlando Theatre Project kicks off its 20th-anniversary season;
director Chris Jorie, who also directed the play in 2000, offers a production that is both
skillful and eloquent. “
Orlando Sentinel 10/22/05
“The play is currently being staged by the Orlando Theatre Project at the Orlando
Repertory Theatre, in a first-rate and moving production directed by Chris Jorie and
starring Jan Wikstrom.”
Orlando Weekly 10/27/05 |
Intermission -
“But we save the best for last in the artfully written and exquisitely performed and
directed production of Intermission. The dialogue is orgasmic and the three actors
performing it are even more so, superbly directed by Chris Jorie.”
Orlando Sentinel 5/20/04 |
Fences -
The humble production of August Wilson's "Fences" at People's Theatre proudly achieves
the type of artistic quality that will put this city on the map. ..just talent, which
People's Theatre has in abundance. Director Chris Jorie uses this talent to capture
the poetry of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play written by the African-American
playwright/activist. “
Weekly 2/12/28
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My Fair Lady -
“Certainly you can see director Chris Jorie’s touch all over My Fair Lady’s latest revival - in
the painstaking casting, in the attention to clarity in detail, in the care he has taken
with actors in even the briefest parts, who look bright and spirited and engaged in
everything they do.”
Orlando Sentinel 9/5/03 |
Boston Marriage -
“Mamet’s parlor game is a winner. They parry and thrust in three briskly played scenes in
The Orlando Theatre Project’s spot-perfect production of the piece. Becky Fisher and
Anne Hering, perfectly rehearsed by director Chris Jorie, and evenly matched as players,
make every line sing and every put-down sting. You have to rent an old Marx Brothers
comedy to duplicate this timing.”
Orlando Sentinel , 8/2/03 |
Proof -
“In David Auburn’s Pulitzer -prize and Tony-award winning play, now being staged in
an elegant and moving production by Orlando Theatre Project...in theater, the proof is in
the playing. In this impressive production, one only needs to do the math to determine
that all the numbers add up to a fine and satisfying evening.”
Orlando Weekly, 1/9/03 |
The Magician’s Nephew -
”The intent of the Aspen Theatre in the Park is on the side of the angels. After all,
training new audiences can’t start too early. And the company has given the production
an all-out effort from a handsome set to fully-worked-out characters.”
The Denver Post 7/14/98 |
Shirley Valentine -
“Every once in a while there occurs a production which seems to have ‘genius’ written all
over it. Such a show is now playing at the Oldcastle Theatre in Bennington, Vermont.
Ms. Decker winningly captures all the nuances of this character, and she is directed with
great sympathy by Chris Jorie.”
WAMC Public Radio 2/28/01 |
The Guys -
“The Guys needs no famous faces to make it larger than life. This story about two
disparate New Yorkers is less about the tragedy of September 11 than about the people
left behind - and the connections, through tragedy that they make. In the hands of
Chris Jorie, a plain tale has kept its simplicity, its grace and its focus on the unknown
people who stand for us all. “
Orlando Sentinel 4/18/03 |
Honk! -
“The Rep’s ‘Honk!’ is a joyful blast. This beguiling musical about an oddball duckling is
sheer fun. Director Chris Jorie has brought together and absolutely charming cast.”
Orlando Sentinel 5/14/04 |
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