Thanks to
mangy_mongrel, I found out that
Swan Lake on Ice is coming to my country from 12 September to 16 September at the Esplanade. (If you're getting tickets,
Sistic outlets here!)
Five tonnes of ice are going to be brought into the Esplanade (
fascinating omg I wish I could see the setup!), and
this is how the theatre's turned into a skating rink!
According to the
international schedule, the cast is presently performing in Tokyo. The skaters are the
Imperial Ice Stars, and here's the
Swan Lake On Ice story. If the
photographs are anything to go by, it's going to pretty impressive! The shot that impressed me the most were
Fire on Ice.
Aaaand, here's
Johnny Weir's 2006 Olympics Short Program: The Swan. ;) Jimmy from
Blades of Glory was more-than-a-little modeled on him. ;) Check out the
Kiss and Cry on this one, and the previous link. ;) Also,
Johnny Weir 2006 Exhibition: Doin' It My Way.
song2sing makes pretty good Johnny Weir icons, and
this animated moodtheme has more than a few Jimmy-moments.
Icons 42-48 here totally show the similarity of Johnny's The Swan to Jimmy's The Peacock. *laughing helplessly*. And
Icons 1 - 22 here are so Jimmy.
Snowflake Moodtheme! (Not really, but it makes me think of
Blades's Snowflake. Only for sponsored accounts, though. It's very cute, but it also turns into Pepsi logos sporadically).
Sadly, Weir's not in this show - apologies if I've misled you, I happened to link him just because he skated in a swan costume. I wish he was in the show, but if he was, the ticket prices would probably be twice what they are now, and he would be ONE NIGHT ONLY. Hee.
I like watching all the abovementioned activities, but probably not as much as you. ;) I like 'em, but... I'd probably prefer a good movie over them. I didn't know you liked watching ice skating, though, COOL! ;) The Fuji Ice Palace rink at Jurong occasionally has skating exhibitions that are pretty cool, I'll let you know if I know of/am heading down for one! ;)
! I sob at incest as the new gay thing! I really didn't like the incestuous couple in that movie, I thought they were NASTY and not nice and I disliked them. But bestiality, urk. But I like your perspective on pushing back the audience boundaries of EW. :) Homosexuality is now too common and accepted to afford more than the standard laughs, so for shock value they want MORE.