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Holiday on Ice is an ice show currently produced by Joop van den Ende's Stage Entertainment Group with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. ==History== Holiday on Ice originated in the United States in 1943. It was the brainchild of Emery Gilbert of Toledo, Ohio, an engineer and builder who created a portable ice rink. He took his idea of a traveling show to Morris Chalfen, a Minneapolis executive, who supplied the financing, and George Tyson, who used his theatrical background to create the show. The touring show made its first international trip to Mexico in 1947. In 1946, the company expanded with another ice show and secondary unit, "Ice Vogues", which took over the Holiday's last season's production and extended it for another year making stops in Cuba and Hawaii. Then the Vogues toured in Central and South America while Holiday remain in North America. After 1956, the Ice Vogues became a second unit of Holiday on Ice. A Holiday on Ice show on was the scene of a gas leak and subsequent explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum which killed 74 people. All owners except Morris Chaflen sold their shares of the North America Holiday on Ice to Madison Square Garden Corporation in 1964, while Chaflen retained ownership of the international Holiday on Ice tour and remained as executive producer of the North America company.〔 By , General Ice Shows, Inc., a subsidiary of Thomas Scallen's Medical Investment Corporation (Medicor) and parent company of Ice Follies, had purchased Holiday on Ice (North America) from Chaflen and Madison Square Garden Company. At that time, Chaflen had purchased $2.2 million in Medicor convertible subordinated notes, which when converted to stock would have made Chaflen the largest share of Medicor. Scallen had Medicor stall registering the notes and sold 400,000 Medicor shares to Arthur Wirtz. After lawsuits by HoI's Chaffen〔 and Wirtz in 1976, Wirtz gained ownership of both shows. Mattel's Irvin & Kenneth Feld Productions purchased the Ice Follies and the Holiday on Ice (USA) from Chicago-based Wirtz for $12 million in 1979.〔 Ice Follies merged with Holiday on Ice in 1980 operating as a combined show in 1980 and 1981. The first ''Disney's World on Ice'' began touring in 1981.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Holiday on Ice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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