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The Ice Capades was a traveling entertainment show featuring theatrical performances involving ice skating.
Ice Capades was founded in 1940 in Hershey, Pennsylvania by John H. Harris, who noted the popularity of ice skating displays during the intermissions between periods of hockey games. In the early days, Ice Capades shows were highly theatrical, with vaudeville elements, including scantily-clad showgirls.
Ice Capades shows were extremely popular for several decades — virtually a household name — although criticized by some as kitsch. Shows would often feature former Olympic figure skaters who had retired from amateur competition.
Harris sold the company in 1963 for $5.5 million; in 1986 then-owner Metromedia sold Ice Capades and the Harlem Globetrotters as a package to International Broadcasting Corporation for $30 million. However, a decline in popularity began in the 1980s and the parent company went bankrupt in 1991. In 1993 Dorothy Hamill bought Ice Capades assets in a bankruptcy sale and attempted to revive the company with the critically acclaimed Frozen in Time: Cinderella on Ice, but attendance figures remained stagnant. In February 1995 she sold the company for $10 million to television evangelist Pat Robertson's International Family Entertainment, Inc., but they announced plans to sell in August 1995, and Ice Capades went out of business a short time later.
In the fall of 2000, Ice Capades was resurrected by Garden Entertainment in its original format with a large cast of skaters. The new show was conceived, directed and choregraphed by the former German pair skating champion Almut Lehmann Peyper. The show was not a financial success and closed in November 2000, cancelling the remaining tour dates.
Analysts believe that on the one hand, the increasing popularity of the sport of figure skating meant that more sophisticated audiences came to prefer straightforward Olympic-style ice-skating competitions, or skating shows for adults (i.e., without cartoon characters) such as Stars on Ice; and on the other hand, shows such as Disney on Ice (featuring Disney cartoon characters) successfully competed for the child audience.
Similar traditional ice-skating entertainment shows included the Ice Follies and Holiday on Ice.
In the second season of Friends, Phoebe Buffay's husband is a Ice Capades skater.
Gary Larson parodied the Ice Capades in his Far Side comic with comics captioned "Ice Crusades" and "Dirt Capades".
In his film Hannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen remarks about Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence: "He said that the life we lived we're gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again."
In an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a third season episode called Helpless she plans to attend the Ice Capades with her father who cancels on her, and tries to convince Giles to take her instead.
In an episode of Olsen twin sitcom Two of a Kind, Carrie says that one guy she dated joined the Ice Capades after they broke up.
In the Ramones song 'Judy Is A Punk' there is the lyric, "they both went down to Berlin, joined the Ice Capades".
In The X Files, Mulder occasionally refers to the Ice Capades. It is implied that he found it boring.
In his HBO special "You Are All Diseased" (1999), American stand-up comedian George Carlin explains why he lost his faith in God: "...the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize something is f***ed up. Something is wrong here: war, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and The Ice Capades".
In , Whoopi Goldberg's character Deloris van Cartier says that she wanted to be in the Ice Capades. When Lauryn Hill's character Rita rolls her eye, Deloris says that they were very cool.
In the "Bloo's Brothers" episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, the episode revolves around Mac and Bloo receiving tickets to and preparing to attend a show called the "Ice Charades", an obvious reference to the Ice Capades.
In the film Miss Congeniality, Michael Caine's character refers to the Ice Capades while teaching Sandra Bullock's character to "glide".
The title of South Park Season 11 episode "Lice Capades"
In the "Wheel of Morality" segment on The Animaniacs, one of the morals was "If you don't have anything nice to say, you're probably at the Ice Capades."
The Off-Broadway musical "Bat Boy" mentions Ice Capades in the song "Show You a Thing or Two" ()
Vaudeville was a genre of variety entertainment prevalent in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s.
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Ice Capades was founded in 1940 in Hershey, Pennsylvania by John H. Harris, who noted the popularity of ice skating displays during the intermissions between periods of hockey games. In the early days, Ice Capades shows were highly theatrical, with vaudeville elements, including scantily-clad showgirls.
Ice Capades shows were extremely popular for several decades — virtually a household name — although criticized by some as kitsch. Shows would often feature former Olympic figure skaters who had retired from amateur competition.
Harris sold the company in 1963 for $5.5 million; in 1986 then-owner Metromedia sold Ice Capades and the Harlem Globetrotters as a package to International Broadcasting Corporation for $30 million. However, a decline in popularity began in the 1980s and the parent company went bankrupt in 1991. In 1993 Dorothy Hamill bought Ice Capades assets in a bankruptcy sale and attempted to revive the company with the critically acclaimed Frozen in Time: Cinderella on Ice, but attendance figures remained stagnant. In February 1995 she sold the company for $10 million to television evangelist Pat Robertson's International Family Entertainment, Inc., but they announced plans to sell in August 1995, and Ice Capades went out of business a short time later.
In the fall of 2000, Ice Capades was resurrected by Garden Entertainment in its original format with a large cast of skaters. The new show was conceived, directed and choregraphed by the former German pair skating champion Almut Lehmann Peyper. The show was not a financial success and closed in November 2000, cancelling the remaining tour dates.
Analysts believe that on the one hand, the increasing popularity of the sport of figure skating meant that more sophisticated audiences came to prefer straightforward Olympic-style ice-skating competitions, or skating shows for adults (i.e., without cartoon characters) such as Stars on Ice; and on the other hand, shows such as Disney on Ice (featuring Disney cartoon characters) successfully competed for the child audience.
Similar traditional ice-skating entertainment shows included the Ice Follies and Holiday on Ice.
Ice Capades in popular culture
Curiously, sitcom episodes with a plot involving tickets to the Ice Capades were still being written years after the demise of the company, including episode 208 ("Drew Hunts a Silver Fox") of The Drew Carey Show (broadcast in 2004) and episode 157 ("The Thought That Counts") of Everybody Loves Raymond (broadcast in 2002).In the second season of Friends, Phoebe Buffay's husband is a Ice Capades skater.
Gary Larson parodied the Ice Capades in his Far Side comic with comics captioned "Ice Crusades" and "Dirt Capades".
In his film Hannah and Her Sisters, Woody Allen remarks about Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence: "He said that the life we lived we're gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again."
In an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a third season episode called Helpless she plans to attend the Ice Capades with her father who cancels on her, and tries to convince Giles to take her instead.
In an episode of Olsen twin sitcom Two of a Kind, Carrie says that one guy she dated joined the Ice Capades after they broke up.
In the Ramones song 'Judy Is A Punk' there is the lyric, "they both went down to Berlin, joined the Ice Capades".
In The X Files, Mulder occasionally refers to the Ice Capades. It is implied that he found it boring.
In his HBO special "You Are All Diseased" (1999), American stand-up comedian George Carlin explains why he lost his faith in God: "...the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize something is f***ed up. Something is wrong here: war, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and The Ice Capades".
In , Whoopi Goldberg's character Deloris van Cartier says that she wanted to be in the Ice Capades. When Lauryn Hill's character Rita rolls her eye, Deloris says that they were very cool.
In the "Bloo's Brothers" episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, the episode revolves around Mac and Bloo receiving tickets to and preparing to attend a show called the "Ice Charades", an obvious reference to the Ice Capades.
In the film Miss Congeniality, Michael Caine's character refers to the Ice Capades while teaching Sandra Bullock's character to "glide".
The title of South Park Season 11 episode "Lice Capades"
In the "Wheel of Morality" segment on The Animaniacs, one of the morals was "If you don't have anything nice to say, you're probably at the Ice Capades."
The Off-Broadway musical "Bat Boy" mentions Ice Capades in the song "Show You a Thing or Two" ()
References
- Slate.com: The Ice Capades: Requiem for the ice carnival
- http://www.billcasselman.com/wintergram_archive/ice_capades.htm
- 2000 Ice Capades revival feature story
- Archived web site of 2000 Ice Capades revival
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Stars on Ice is a touring figure skating show produced by IMG. It was originally conceived in 1986 as a vehicle for IMG client Scott Hamilton, who had been released from his contract with Ice Capades, after being told that male skaters do not sell tickets.
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