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This year, between the 7th and 10th of February, Wembley Arena in London will host an ice show called Romanza.
The opening hours on the 7th and 8th of February is 7.30 PM, on the 9th – 12 PM, 4 PM, 8 PM and on 10th of February – 1 PM and 5 PM. The ticket costs around £15 to £30. Romantic classics such as Madame Butterfly and Romeo and Juliet and modern-day love duos like Sandy and Danny from Grease are incorporated into a new show, Romanza, by Holiday. These dates are at Wembley Arena in London. The ice spectacle features dazzling dance and theatrical techniques to the backdrop of popular music, keeping the audience glued to their seats with mouths agaping and hearts thumping.
Wembley Arena is part of the world-famous Wembley Complex, along with the Stadium, Conference Centre and Exhibition Halls, Wembley Arena is one of the UK’s premier concert venues, attracting the biggest names in music. The address is Empire Way HA9 0DW.

If you travel by car, there is on-site parking for more than 6000 cars or 1000 coaches in multi-storey car parks, by tube, at Wembley Park Station (Metropolitan & Jubilee lines) or Wembley Central (Bakerloo line). The Wembley venues are signposted from each station. By rail, the Wembley Stadium station links to Marylebone Station in London or if you choose going there by bus, take on of the following buses 79, 83, 92, 182, 294, 224 & 297 all stop within five minutes’ walk of the complex.

Historically speaking, the holiday on Ice was established as a family-oriented show by its founders but has retained little of the traditional ice revue format. The actual shows focus more on a theatrical/musical aspect rather than on the glamorous revue style with clouds of feathers and millions of sequins and rhinestones to attract a new, a younger audience. The once large “Corps de Ballet” of skaters has been reduced (from 24 girls + 12 boys to 20 girls + 10 boys) and elaborate costuming has been replaced in favor of small modern stylings. Also the music choice from mainly musical scores has been changed and adapted to the contemporary taste of actual pop music and even rock. Novelty acts such as acrobats have been added regularly to the main production numbers in recent years.

Since 1988 each show has been given an official name to expose its unique identity resulting from its main production theme that weaves the various numbers into a unitary presentation. Beginning in 2005, Holiday on Ice has added several family-oriented touring shows to their schedule, including Peter Pan, Bugs Bunny on Ice and Ali Baba in “1001 Nights on Ice” in their new branch Kids Ice shows (“KISS”). In contrast to the North American skating tours Stars on Ice and Champions on Ice which feature primarily World and Olympic champion figure skaters, most of the skaters who tour with Holiday on Ice are not particularly famous, and the focus is on the overall production quality rather than the skaters’ competitive credentials.

Robin Cousins, MBE has choreographed several of Holiday on Ice’s recent shows. Former choreographers have included: Stephanie Andros, Willi Bietak, Marie Carr, Kevin J. Cottam, Francis Demarteau, Sarah Kawahara, Karen Kresge, Jerôme Savary, Ted Shuffle, Anthony van Laast, MBE, and Frank Wentink.

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