First:

Check out this site. It has some great basic info for building your own revue. 

https://aact.org/sites/default/files/Resource%20Library/Revues.pdf

Otherwise, 

·         Choose a theme, e.g. kids on Broadway, family fun, summer celebration.

·         Choose content that matches the theme 

·         Choose material that is within the expected skill range of the participants.

·         Add choreography. Keep it simple, unless you have the skilled participants, time, and/or talented instructors to make it happen. Remember: Inexpensive, fast, quality. You can have two but not all three. Fast and quality takes money; quality and inexpensive takes time; fast and inexpensive, quality suffers.

·         Keep it 60-90 minutes (15-20 songs [or less]; 3-5 minutes each). Remember, "Less is more." Elegance is about what you take away, not what you add. Cut what isn't working. Better an hour of excellence than 90 minutes of under rehearsed and sloppy.

·         Consider different types of songs, e.g. longing/want/wish song, comic list song, patter song, ballads (love song), theme song (I have attached a list "Functions and Types of Songs")

·         Write a script for a narrator or for the performers to introduce songs. This is critical! People think they can adlib the transitions, they can't! Intros, transitions, and outros need to be written and rehearsed.

·         Structure it like a play (three acts: beginning middle, end)

o   Open with a strong group number that uses the entire company

o   Add solo, duets and small groups (4-5 songs)

o   Mid-way through add another large group number

o   More solos, duets and small groups (4-5 songs)

o   Big finale that uses the whole group

·         Have fun! Make the kids feel successful. If they can't do harmony/parts, single in unison.