Archive for Musicals.Net Musicals.Net
 


       Musicals.Net Forums -> Les Miserables
herkind

Ice Skating to Les Mis

I don't know how many of you noticed the French ice dance team Pechelat and Bourzat skating to Les Mis in the last Olympics. My head almost exploded from the cross-fandom. http://youtube.com/watchv=9rewdy_g4oQ
Anyway, a US pairs team Tiffany Vise and Derek Trent is also using Les Mis music this season. I actually hadn't seem them skate but saw a picture of them online and thought "That looks like an Enjy vest; are they skating to Les Mis?" It turns out they are.
Here's a video of their program (at the French event Trophee Bombard no less): http://youtube.com/watch?v=6mos0eDUZ3g
Michelle Kwan also skated to On My Own several years ago: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eqWtW3gIhZo

Skating and Les Mis together make me insanely happy. Very Happy
Fantine

I knew about the other two but not about the recent skating pair. That enjy vest looks drool-a-licious.
Colle

The music of "Les Miserables" is a poplar choice among figure skaters to use for a program. Michelle Kwan's "On My Own" is one of my favorite exhibition programs of hers. I love it when figure skaters use musical theater music, it combines two things I enjoy. Edited to add a link to another one of my favorite Les Mis skating programs. This is Nicole Bobek at the 1993 U.S. Nationals. She didn't skate the program prefectly, but I would have put her on the world team that year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7arvvOxOWw
herkind

Oh thanks for that! I knew Kurt Browning and Todd Eldredge had also used Les Mis but I didn't know that Nicole used it too! I love her; she has such charisma on the ice.
       Musicals.Net Forums -> Les Miserables
Page 1 of 1