ice capades (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Unpaginated.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Nice throwback to the Ice Capades of the 1960's. Copyright 1968. "Metromedia Presents: The 28th Edition of the Ice Capades". 9 x 11" full color photo. Both B/W and color photos inside. Here are some names of the featured skaters that you might recognize: Wolfgang Schwarz, Hans Leiter, Donald Knight, Roy and sandi Wagelein, Sashi Kuchiki, Janet Runn, Vic Zoble, George Bussey, Ardith Paul, The Three Toddys, Diane, Hans Mueller and Pepe, Marilyn Cooper & Bruce Jarman, Michael Garren. Color photos of the fabulous sets. Excellent condition for this vintage treasure. BR Box 161.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illus., 10.5 x 8", colorful pict stapled wraps, unpaginated. Covers have light soiling, rubbing and creasing, rusty staples else contents good to very good condition. Performers include Glory Piller, John Curtin, Margaret Field, Jimmy Lawrence. Titles of some of the performance pieces: "Totem Tom-Tom", "The Apaches", "Ice-Mammy Dolls" (pictured). Front cover shows an attractive blonde female ice skater in a red costume and the reverse Raggedy Anns & Andys. SCARCE program.

Zustand: Very good. Harry Langton (photographer) (illustrator). The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 10.75 inches. 1 sheet. Front cover has a large full figure picture of both figure skaters in matching costumes. The other side has individual photographs of each skater in costume an illustrating a skating skill. There is also a small insert photograph of the two with Tai seated and Randy standing by her. There is a text section describing their performance and small 'blurbs' on each of the skaters. An ice show is an entertainment production which is primarily performed by ice skaters. The major ice shows were founded between 1936 and 1943, when professional skaters began to appear in shows. According to figure skating historian James R. Hines, ice shows "took spectacular skating to large audiences, contributing to the development of the sport's first major fan base". Such shows may be musical and/or dramatic in nature, using skating as a medium in order to accompany a musical work or to present a story. Many companies produce fixed or touring ice shows. Tai Reina Babilonia (born Sept. 22, 1959) is an American former pair skater. Together with Randy Gardner, she won the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships and five U.S. Figure Skating Championships (19761980). The pair qualified for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics. Babilonia and Gardner toured with the Ice Capades for four years and with Champions on Ice for two years. Randy Gardner (born Dec. 2, 1958) is an American former pair skater. In 2008, Babilonia and Gardner announced their retirement from show skating due to a neck injury sustained by Gardner and their advancing ages. The Ice Capades were traveling entertainment shows featuring theatrical ice skating performances. Shows often featured former Olympic and US National Champion figure skaters who had retired from formal competition. Started in 1940, the Ice Capades grew rapidly and prospered for 50 years. A decline in popularity ensued in the 1980s, and the show went out of business around 1995. There have been several attempts to revive the show and its name. Ice Capades was founded in February 1940 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, by nine men who called themselves the Arena Managers Association. They met to discuss forming an ice show to play in their arenas during the 1940-1941 entertainment season. In 1936, Harris had hired the legendary skater Sonja Henie to perform between periods of ice hockey games. She created a sensation among Pittsburghers, confirming his faith in ice skating's potential as a spectator amusement. The other arena managers agreed with this assessment, chose the name "Ice Capades", and formed a group of skaters. Ice Capades program from 1945, showing the many production numbers, and the large size of the cast. Single-themed shows had not yet been developed. The group's first performance was four months after its founding, on June 16, 1940, at New Orleans Municipal Auditorium. The show closed there on June 29 and moved to Atlantic City Convention Hall, where it played nightly from July 19 through September 2. Famous skaters in the large cast included Belita, Vera Hruba, and Robin Lee. The group's first touring season under the Ice Capades name covered 24 cities between November 1940 and May 1941. The show's success spawned two films from Republic Pictures, Ice-Capades (1941), and Ice-Capades Revue (1942). The films featured actors and entertainers such as James Ellison, Ellen Drew, Jerry Colonna, and Phil Silvers, as well as the Ice Capades skaters. They were not considered to be films of quality, and the first one was panned by The New York Times. In 1942, the show featured world champion skater Megan Taylor, new talent Donna Atwood, and an acrobatic team from Boston called the Hub Trio featuring Leonard Mullen, Kenneth Mullen and Eddie Raiche. They were the first in the world to perform a back flip without the use of hands. From 1941 through 1981, the Ice Capades show was a summertime fixture at what was then known as Atlantic City Convention Hall. Starting in 1949, Ice Capades started adding Disney's character segment to their performances. Costumes from those shows were used at the opening of Disneyland in 1955. A slow decline in popularity began by the end of the 1980s. The parent company went bankrupt in 1991. Olympic champion Scott Hamilton joined the show in 1984 but later left to start his own show, Stars on Ice. On June 24, 1993, Dorothy Hamill, who headlined the East Company from 1977 to 1984,bought Ice Capades' assets in a bankruptcy sale via Dorothy Hamill International company. Hamill International developed Frozen in Time: Cinderella on Ice, a theatrical style show billed as Dorothy Hamill's Ice Capades. Analysts believe 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. At the same time, shows such as Disney on Ice (featuring Disney cartoon characters) successfully competed for the child audience. Single sheet, printed on both sides Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.