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...despite his time-consuming skating career. He has played a large role in the organization of the annual Evening for Champions skating benefit for the Jimmy Fund for cancer research, which this year raised $145,000. Each year, Wylie has used his connections to attract such luminaries as Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill, and Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner to Bright Center...
...humor is hip and sometimes bawdy. In a talking blues called Tom's Diner, punks and Valley Girls mingle with waiters and commuters, while a pelvis- wiggling Boitano gooses every woman in sight. Gary Beacom, whose skating blends performance art and circus theatrics, does an uproarious first-act | number in which herky-jerky movements suggest every skater's nightmare: impending spills onto the ice. In the second act Beacom crawls and skitters like Spiderman, then skates from end to end of the arena while encased in black, including a hood that blocks his vision. Valova and Vasiliev join Underhill...
...discipline is doubly impressive because staging conditions are spotty. In Baltimore, for example, the newly poured ice was thin and brittle: in rehearsal, Boitano's skates broke through to the concrete beneath. The length and configuration of the ice vary from show to show, as do locations of entrances and exits and placement of key lighting elements...
...Boitano and Witt, moreover, skating together represents a pragmatic compromise between getting an audience and pursuing their true calling, solo performance. Says Witt: "We each have two solos per show. But we also do partner skating, which is totally different." The moves in pair skating are much closer to dance and emphasize carrying and tossing the female partner rather than individual jumps and spins. Thus the genre is at once less athletic than what Boitano and Witt are used to and far more athletic than what they can achieve together without years of practice. Witt, who is not pushing herself...
...audiences, these frets and cavils are imperceptible. Witt and Boitano have not only talent but taste. In this tour, they also have a triumph...