Scrapped programs you wish skaters had kept/debuted?

[Aimee-01]

I really liked Kostornaia’s “You should she me in a crown”. It’s a shame she only used it once or twice

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Li85_u12zow

 

[LeReveur]

I once saw on another forum that Maria Butyrskaya was playing around with "The Chicken Dance" for her SP in the summer of 1999 in her attempt to defend her world title, but an official said it was too quirky. I wish I could see practice footage in video form. No, that's not true. I've never read such a thing!

It would have been fun to see her do something bolder for her free program in her final years. Perhaps some soundtrack to a thriller or adventure movie to force her to confront her nerves with speed and loud music in the arena.

How cool could it be to have a sort of Improv on Ice return in which fans yell out what skaters have to choreograph and then the skaters put together a program for the allotted song.

 

[invisiblespiral]

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva had a Summer of '42 SP in around 2012 or 2013 that I remember liking, but it got scrapped and I can't find any videos.

 

[iluvtodd]

Sean Rabbitt "Tequila" SP:

A wonderful program that I saw live. In fact, I saw this performance. Sean returned to another SP for the remainder of that year.

Oh, you beat me to it! I do believe Sean kept it as a show program, though. BTW, we must have been sitting right near you that day because that sounds like me cheering on Sean.

OTOH, I can't get enough of his "East of Eden" SP. Yeah, I know he performed it for @ least 3 seasons, but I still it (and apparently so does he)!

For the 2001/2002 Olympic season, Todd Eldredge was originally going to skate to music from "Band of Brothers," which I would have loved to see. He switched to the music from the 1st "Lord of the Rings" soundtrack, which I really loved, too. His original short program was "Jumpin' Jack" (Big Bad VooDoo Daddy), which he did in some of the pro-ams early in the season (the Masters of Figure Skating, etc.), but eventually he switched to "Carmina Burana/Mythodea (which became my favorite short program of his). I was so thrilled when he expanded to Carmina Burana/Mythodea as an interpretive free program in the 2002 Spring Pro-Am (the Hershey's Challenge).

 

[Princessroja]

Piper and Paul's Hitchcock program. I saw it live at SA 2017 and thought it was just SO much fun. I was so disappointed when they dropped it shortly thereafter.

 

[elbkup]

I really liked Kostornaia’s “You should she me in a crown”. It’s a shame she only used it once or twice

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Li85_u12zow

Also Cheek of Night from Romeo & Juliet.. a nice extension of her Twilight program with its R&J theme.. Music from WE started this skate but Cheek of Night came in at 3:20 and got the audience clapping along and should have started the program imo

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[macy]

Wagner's La La Land. she was injured that season, but i think if she had stuck to her guns and kept it the whole season she would have made the team.

 

[elbkup]

Wagner's La La Land. she was injured that season, but i think if she had stuck to her guns and kept it the whole season she would have made the team.

I adored that program..

 

[bostonskaterguy86]

Unfortunately the one performance of it we got is more than a little rough - but Evgenia Medvedeva's Masquerade SP was incredible. I think it might be my favorite StSq of hers.

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[centerpt1]

2009-10 season, Jeremy Abbott "Jupiter" by Holst/"Pines of Rome" by Respighi LP, choreo was by Tom Dickson. It never got skated in competition IIRC, and would have been amazing! I wish he would have revisited that program later in his competitive career because it would have been beautiful!

This was my answer, too. It would have been wonderful. I think there was video of the last 20 seconds or so

 

[skatedreamer]

This was my answer, too. It would have been wonderful. I think there was video of the last 20 seconds or so

I'd love to see that video, even if it's only 20 seconds!

Re: "Jupiter," I was listening to it on YouTube and saw one comment that I just had to share:
This piece is so good that they named a whole planet after it.

 

[dorispulaski]

....

... And this year Chock and Bates changed their RD to Billie Eilish - the early music listings I saw listed the first music as Cantaloop.

They said on their podcast that the scrapped RD was to Sade. Did Sade ever do Cantaloop?

 

[purplecat]

They said on their podcast that the scrapped RD was to Sade. Did Sade ever do Cantaloop?

Thanks. I didn't hear that. Sade could've been interesting too! Cantaloop could've just been wrong info. I believe early reports also thought their exhibition program I Hear a Symphony was going to be turned into their FD and that was wrong so can't trust those early rumors.

 

[Winnie_20]

Weren’t Papadakis/Cizeron supposed to skate to Tango Jalousie a year or two ago? I think I might have seen a clip of it somewhere, sometime… Such a brilliant piece of music. :-(

 

[Jeanie19]

Unfortunately the one performance of it we got is more than a little rough - but Evgenia Medvedeva's Masquerade SP was incredible. I think it might be my favorite StSq of hers.

Evgenia Medvedeva - Test Skates 2020 - SP / ÐÐ²Ð³ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ðедведева - ÐÐ 2020 - ÐÐ - 2020-09-12

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I agree. . I hope she will bring it back for an exhibition skate.

 

[Jeanie19]

Medvedeva's January Stars, I still think it would've won her pyeongchang if done cleanly

Evgenia MEDVEDEVA - Ondrej Nepela Trophy 2017

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I think her dress alone is a plus 5.

 

[ptvvibezz]

Another Michelle program that she should've kept was the Miraculous Mandarin. It was only skated one time as a second free skate at 2000-01 GPF.

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[ladyjane]

Thank you @ptvvibezz ! I had never seen that specific Michelle programme before (and I've seen quite a few). Great to see!.

 

[skatedreamer]

Another Michelle program that she should've kept was the Miraculous Mandarin. It was only skated one time as a second free skate at 2000-01 GPF.

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I love Bartok and adore Michelle but am not so sure this music suits her. To me it feels too intense and edgy for her personality, so IMO going in a different direction was a good call. Agree to disagree?

 

[ptvvibezz]

I love Bartok and adore Michelle but am not so sure this music suits her. To me it feels too intense and edgy for her personality, so IMO going in a different direction was a good call. Agree to disagree?

Yes, agree to disagree. I think she could've pulled it off maybe later in her career. She did edgy programs in the future (The Feeling Begins and Carmina Burana) so I think could've pulled it off.