Disney on Ice
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Disney on Ice is a touring ice show produced by Feld Entertainment (CEO Kenneth Feld) under agreement with The Walt Disney Company. Aimed primarily at children, the shows feature figure skaters dressed as Disney cartoon characters in performances that derive music and plot from the various Disney films; the "stars" of the show are the Disney characters themselves rather than the skaters.
Disney on Ice runs several productions and touring companies at any given time. The shows have played all over the world, including non-traditional skating regions like South America, the Middle East, and southeast Asia, South Asia, as well as North America, Australia and Europe.
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[edit] Shows
[edit] DISNEYLAND Adventure
(Formerly, "Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure.") The Magic Kingdom itself is the setting for the Disney on Ice play, Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure. The Parr family (the Incredibles) choose to go here after Mother Nature ruins their initial vacation plans with a volcano (this incident is in the short comic book The Incredibles in: "Holiday Heroes"). One minute into the Main Street Parade (for which the Parrs are made Grand Marshals, against the wishes of the profile height conscious family), an android replica of Syndrome (archenemy of the Incredibles) attacks the resort, kidnaps Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and plans to build his own theme park—SyndromeLand—in the resort's place, forcing the Parrs to become the Incredibles and come out of hiding once more. The robot Syndrome imprisons Mickey and Minnie in the Pirates of the Caribbean section of the park, but is forced to lock them up in LASER prisons instead after the Incredibles attack him. When Frozone imprisons the robot Syndrome in ice, Mickey and Minnie are liberated and the resort is restored.
Goofy, Pluto, Donald Duck, and Chip and Dale, along with characters from The Jungle Book, Toy Story, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Alice in Wonderland, make cameo appearances in through out the early half of the show before coming together at parade time and they all manage to escape when the robot Syndrome attacks the resort. The Enchanted Tiki Room, Jungle Cruise, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Haunted Mansion, Mad Tea Party, Main Street, U.S.A., "it's a small world", and Pirates of the Caribbean sections of the Magic Kingdom, as well as the entrance of the Cinderella Castle centerpiece, were reworked to be enacted in on the ice.
[edit] Pixar's Monsters Inc.
James P. Sullivan (AKA "Sulley") and Mike Wazowski pick up their paychecks at Monsters Inc., the utility company that generates energy from the goose bumps of children. Sulley, the No. 1 scream-generator at the plant accidentally lets in a little girl into the monster world. Since monsters are actually terrified of children it's a major cause for alarm and a major headache for Sulley and Mike.
In a land of monsters, James P. Sullivan is king. He and his coworker/ friend Mike Wazowski are two of many monsters that work for Monsters Inc. a utility company that generates power for a very paranoid and nervous city of monsters. This power, oddly enough, is generated from the screams of children, which is produced by scaring them in their sleep. One night, however, Sully uncovers a devious plot to rid Monster city of its power problems, but in all the wrong ways. Together, ironically, Sully and Mike will fight to protect the innocence of the children they scare every night.
In the world behind our closet doors, monsters like Mike and Sulley work hard for their income. To be exact, the monster world depends on our children's screams: It is their energy that makes lightbulbs glow and cars drive. Big companies like Monsters, Inc. collect the scream energy, and many monsters work there in shifts. In these times, it is getting harder and harder to shock the kids properly, since they're so spoiled by television, so that there's an energy shortage in the monster world. Sulley, the number one frightener, one day accidentally lets a human child into the monster world. Since kids are supposed to be poisonous and carry loads of diseases, pandemonium ensues. After Mike and Sulley discover that the girl they named Boo actually seems quite harmless, they decide to bring her back through her door into her room. But Boo's presence is more than just a mere accident. Now, Mike and Sulley have to face an enemy within their own ranks.
Now they must avoid the CDA (Child Detection Agency), and Randall, Sulley's competitor in the scaring business, and Boo's monster, who evidently is the one who is responsible for Boo's presence in Monstropolis, from taking her. In the end, they return her to her door and stop Randall and Mr. Waternoose, the boss of Monsters, Inc., from revealing her identity to the CDA. Mike and Sulley become heroes, and Sulley then becomes the new boss of Monsters Inc, which he later remakes into a factory that makes children laugh.
[edit] Trivia
- Skating on Thin Ice was a short-lived Australian celebrity reality television programme broadcast on the Nine Network. Hosted by Jamie Durie, nine celebrities learnt to skate with the ultimate goal being to perform with Disney on Ice, with proceeds going toward children's charity, CanTeen.
