Let the revelry begin! The up-close-and-personal circus experience comes to Arts at the Armory. - Photo by Tammy Raabe Rao, Rubicat Design and Photography.

By Charlie Lynch

Reign of Revelry, a local circus performance is showing at the Armory in Somerville with kid-friendly matinees on Saturdays and 18+ shows on Friday and Saturday evenings.  The show features many local performers in juggling, acrobatics, contortion, aerials, hula hooping, and belly dancing, with live circus music by Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band.

“Reign of Revelry gives audiences a rare opportunity to see phenomenal circus talent up-close and personal”, says Michael “Mooch” Mucciolo, one of the jugglers in the show as well as a member of the production team, “To make things even more special, the entire show is set to a raucous and catchy soundtrack performed live by Boston’s most dance-able circus band, Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band”.

- Photo by Tammy Raabe Rao, Rubicat Design and Photography.

The show is presented by the Boston Circus Guild, a local organization that promotes the performing arts throughout the Boston area and greater New England, and affords artists an opportunity to entertain while remaining in the Boston area.

“The circus is unique, it’s the one place where everyday people get to see examples of the infinite potential that exists in all of us”, says Roger May, who performs hand balancing and juggling in the show. For showtimes and ticket information: http://www.artsatthearmory.org/