Exec Peterborough
Press Release 21 October 2011
Tropicana - The Passion Tour
Created and choreographed by Robin Cousins MBE
Holiday on Ice has announced its return to the EXEC Peterborough, East of England Showground from 2nd to 5th February next year. Tickets for the show went on sale on 1st September 2011.
The world’s most visited ice show returns with a brand new show - TROPICANA – The Passion Tour. Created and choreographed by Olympic champion Robin Cousins MBE, TROPICANA takes you on a journey that celebrates love, life, music and dance in one of the most thrilling ice spectaculars you will ever see.
Robin Cousins’s love of skating and desire for artistic excellence has given us some of the most unforgettable performances ever seen on ice. In TROPICANA Robin invites you to share his dance and musical inspirations - from the high octane rock ‘n’ roll of fifties America to a smouldering bolero and the steamy Latin rhythms of a tropical night club – brought to life by a cast of over 40 world class skaters.
As well as offering an original musical score, TROPICANA features interpretations of some of the best loved songs from world-renowned songwriter Barry Manilow including ‘I Can’t Smile Without You’, the iconic ‘Mandy’ and the one and only ‘Copacabana’.
Robin comments: "A few years ago I was working with Barry Manilow on a TV Special and I found his music works just as great skating should. It flows beautifully and soars in all the right places! There's passion and power in the songs and that's what I've always tried to convey in the shows I create, so I am absolutely delighted to have been given the opportunity to showcase this wonderful music in TROPICANA and hope this will add a new dimension to the audience's enjoyment of these great songs."
For the first time in Holiday on Ice’s history, TROPICANA employs a giant, state-of-the-art LED screen as the backdrop to the show, enhancing the action on the ice with a thrilling light show that incorporates additional footage of the skaters.
TROPICANA will be delighting audiences drawn from across the East of England region at the EXEC Peterborough in 8 shows from 2nd-5th February 2012. Money raised from ticket sales for the opening Gala charity night will be donated to locally based charity Anna’s Hope.
Tickets are now on sale from 1st September 2011.
Call the Box Office Tel: 0844 581 1315 or book online at
www.theticketfactory.com/holidayonice.
Big savings for groups of 10 or more people. For more information visit
www.holidayonice.co.uk.
Tropicana Facts
- There are about 220 costumes, 49 wigs and 66 hats presented in Tropicana. They are all handmade in France, Belgium, UK, USA and The Netherlands.
- At least 3 ice technicians are needed to maintain the ice floor in each venue.
- The Tropicana set is an unique construction that consists of 391 panels, more than 25.000 LEDS, is 9,75 meter high, 22 meter wide and weighs over 6.000 kilo.
- The Tropicana skaters rehearsed 432 hours before the first try-outs in Halle, Germany.
- The Tropicana show contains 6 show trucks of 13,6 meters long and 2 times 2 ice trucks.
- Holiday on Ice is proud to be the first ice entertainment company in the world that works with a GPS Following System. This way the skaters are automatically followed by the spotlights.
- The skaters of Tropicana skate between 6 and 8 km per show, depending on the size of the ice floor in each venue.
- The Tropicana cast, crew and staff is a travelling team of approximately 56 people (34 cast, 14 crew and 8 staff) and represent 18 different nationalities.
- The principals of Tropicana change their costumes 5 to 6 times and the chorus skaters 7 to 9 times per show.
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