Shortly after Holiday on Ice finished in Taipei, Taiwan, my friend, Ellen, e-mailed me saying that it was a fantastic show and how much fun I would have if I could make it. I was so jealous, because I had

Maria Belita Gladys Olive Lyne Jepson-Turner: It was a great experience meeting the skater known professionally as “Belita” and getting to know her over several years when my wife Noel and I were in London. A small group of friends

Specialty and variety acts were a crowd-pleasing mainstay of the by gone days of touring ice shows. Comedians, acrobats, barrel jumpers, stilt skaters, and sister acts were developed and long careers were enjoyed in this unique skating niche. Frick &

The famous ice extravaganza “Ice Capades” was nearly twenty years old when the 1960’s began. This era could possibly be marked as the most colorful and innovative in all of the show’s history. In 1960 and 1961, Ice Capades featured

How lucky are we anyway? I am constantly thinking about how fortunate I am to be able to do what I love to do and then to get paid for it! I just completed a fantastic tour of Asia with

The following is an excerpt from Eddie Shipstad, Ice Follies Star (pages 98 – 101) [sic] . . [T]heir show as a good one, but no matter how good it was, if they could not get people to come to

In the early 1900s, pioneering professional skaters performed miniature ice revues in hotel supper clubs on small portable ice stages called “tanks.” The directors and performers who created those first tank shows adapted show biz production and performance elements still

Hello, I am figure skating coach who skated with Holiday On Ice. Show skating is so different than “regular” skating! It is so hard to imagine, however, it is the greatest experience that I have ever had in my entire

October 1999, the Royal Caribbean Cruise ship “Voyager of the Seas” set sail from Turku, Finland and became the first cruise ship to have a permanent ice show in production. “ICEjammin” ran for six  successful years and was replaced by

As you travel across the world, from venue to venue, hotel to hotel, or sometimes hauling your trailer still… the smell of each arena you walk into, what make-up spot will you claim as your own for the week, is