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Ice Chips: Show of Champions

April 8, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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$33
The Lights are Bright on Broadway - Ice Chips: Show of Champions starring Two-Time World
Champion Javier Fernandez, Local Youth and more….
Exciting news as local skaters, including Dessie Bell-Kamen of Jamaica Plain, will join the star-filled cast this year for the 105th anniversary celebration of The Skating Club of Boston’s annual Ice Chips: Show of Champions at
Harvards Bright-Landry Hockey Center. This years Ice Chips show will include a spectacular mix of solo and group performances. The Club welcomes back to Boston, special guest star, Javier Fernandez, who thrilled the Boston crowd by winning the 2016 ISU Word Figure Skating Championship. In addition, musical guest, Jelani Remy, currently starring on Broadway as Simba in The Lion King, will perform with our cast, as well as fifteen U.S. Championship competitors, including Marisa Castelli & Mervin Tran, Ross Miner, Megan Wessenberg, Emmy Ma,
and Emilia Murdock.
This year's dazzling show,The Lights are Bright on Broadwayfeaturing beloved songs from the most popular musicals, will appeal to audience members of all ages. The creative team features, Matt Lind, Artistic Director, Timothy LeBlanc as Show Producer and Adam Blake. Matt’s vision for the show’s theme was inspired when he saw The Lion King on Broadway. Both Timothy and Adam, formerly with Disney On Ice, as performers, producers and
choreographers bring their wealth of experience to the show’s production value. If you’ve watched professional
skating on TV, but have never had the excitement of attending a live performance, come to Ice Chips, and prepare to be amazed and entertained!
Over 300 skaters from fifty towns across Massachusetts and beyond will participate in the show! Ice Chips: Shoof Champions is The Skating Club of Bostons annual skating festival and the longest-running amateur ice show in
the world. It has brought Boston audiences some of the biggest names in gure skating from around the worldwhile introducing them to current and future champions. Tickets can be purchased online at www.icechips.org or
www.boxoffice.harvard.edu or by visiting the Harvard Box Office Sales Booth, 10 Holyoke St., Cambridge, or bcalling 617-496-2222.
The Skating Club of Boston is immensely proud to have donated revenues from the shows to various charities over the last 80 years including Childrens Hospital of Boston. In the past several years, almost 2000 Girl Scouts have
attended the show. Many of them were so inspired by what they saw they signed up for their own skating lessons.
Ice Chips Show of Champions benefits Children’s Hospital Boston and the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
In addition to the 400 skaters in Ice Chips, over 200 volunteers work behind the scenes to make Ice Chips the best ever year after year.

Details

Date:
April 8, 2017
Time:
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Cost:
$33
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Website:
http://www.icechips.org

Venue

Harvard's Bright-Landry Hockey Center
65 N Harvard St
Boston, MA 02163
Phone
617.782.5900
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