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The Ice Capades was a traveling entertainment show featuring theatrical performances involving ice skating. Ice skating is Traveling on Ice with skates, narrow (and sometimes parabolic) blade-like devices moulded into special Boots A study

Ice Capades was founded in 1940 in Hershey, Pennsylvania by John H. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Harris, who noted the popularity of ice skating displays during the intermissions between periods of hockey games. Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. In the early days, Ice Capades shows were highly theatrical, with vaudeville elements, including scantily-clad showgirls. Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s

Ice Capades shows were extremely popular for several decades—virtually a household name—although criticized by some as kitsch. Kitsch /kɪtʃ/ is a term of German or Yiddish origin that has been used to categorize art that is considered an inferior tasteless copy of an existing Shows would often feature former Olympic figure skaters who had retired from amateur competition. The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games Figure skating is an athletic Sport in which individuals pairs or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging

Harris sold the company in 1963 for $5. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 5 million; in 1986 then-owner Metromedia sold Ice Capades and the Harlem Globetrotters as a package to International Broadcasting Corporation for $30 million. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Metromedia (also often MetroMedia) was a media company that owned radio and Television stations in the United States from 1956 The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism and Comedy. However, a decline in popularity began in the 1980s and the parent company went bankrupt in 1991. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. 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. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Dorothy Stuart Hamill (born July 26, 1956 in Chicago Illinois) is an American figure skater. 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. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22 1930 is a controversial Televangelist from the United States. The International Family Entertainment Inc was founded and co-chaired Pat Robertson in 1990.

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 choreographed by the former German pair skating champion Almut Lehmann Peyper. The show was not a financial success and closed in November 2000, canceling 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. Figure skating is an athletic Sport in which individuals pairs or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games 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. Stars on Ice is a touring Figure skating show produced by IMG. Disney On Ice is a touring ice show produced by Feld Entertainment under agreement with The Walt Disney Company.

Similar traditional ice-skating entertainment shows included the Ice Follies and Holiday on Ice. Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies was a touring ice show featuring elaborate production numbers similar in concept to Ice Capades. Holiday on Ice is an ice show currently produced by Joop van den Ende's Stage Entertainment Group with its headquarters in Amsterdam Netherlands

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 episodes of The Drew Carey Show, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Drew Carey Show is an American Sitcom (set in Cleveland Ohio) that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004 Friends was an Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award -winning American Television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13 Fictional narratives (and works of art exist beyond their completion e The show has also been widely parodied, for example by cartoonist Gary Larson with comics captioned "Ice Crusades" and "Dirt Capades". This article refers to the Cartoonist. For the Rugby league player please see Gary Larson (rugby league.

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