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All-Time Favorite Programs

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SkateFan4Life

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Many of my all-time favorite figure skaters have blessed us with numerous memorable, outstanding programs that remain in our memories. Here are just a few of my favorite numbers:

Barbara Underhill/Paul Martine - "Unchained Melody".

Dorothy Hamill: "Pie Jesu", "One Rock 'n Roll too Many", "Zippedy-
Doo-Dah", "Nutcracker", "Romance", "The Music of the Night".

Peggy Fleming: "Ave Maria", "Pachebel".

Brian Boitano: "Water Fountain", "Appalachian Spring".

Katarina Witt: "Carmen", "West Side Story", "I Am What I Am".

Michelle Kwan: "Angelica Lyrica", "Rachmaninoff" "Dante's Prayer".

Tonya Harding: Her 1991 long program, skated to "Batman",
"Send in the Clowns", and "Wild Thing". (first triple axel by an American woman).

Kristi Yamaguchi: "Doop, Doop", "Madame Butterfly".

John Curry: "Tango, Tango", 1976 Olympic gold medal long program to "Don Quiote".

Janet Lynn: "Afternoon of a Faun".

Robin Cousins: "Satan Takes a Holiday".

Katia Gordeeva/Sergei Grinkov: "The Man I Love", 1988 Olympic long program.

Brian Orser: "The Story of My Life".

Paul Wylie: "JFK", "Henry V", "Miss Saigon".

Jayne Torvill/Christopher Dean: "Barnum", "Bolero", "Sing, Sing, Sing".


And the list goes on and on and on!!


:D
 

NanSinger2

On the Ice
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Jul 26, 2003
I had forgot about Dorthy's Pie Jesu. That was beautiful. You're right, there are so many to chose from. Other's I have loved:

Yag's "Winter"
Michelle's Salome
Kristi's "Oh So Quiet"
Kurt's "Brick House"
Elvis's "Drums (can't remember the name)
Plushy's (LP from 2001)

That's just to name a few...
 

sk8ing_lady2001

Final Flight
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Jul 26, 2003
Michelle Kwan: "Fields of Gold", "Winter", "Lyra Angelica"
Paul Wylie: "Miss Saigon", "On the Waterfront", "JFK"
Sasha Cohen: "Carmen"
Ann Patrice McDonough: "Madame Butterfly", "All I Ask of You"
Tanith Belbin/Ben Agosto: "Elvis Medley"
Naomi Lang/Peter Tchernyshev: "Still Loving You"
Alexei Yagudin: "Winter"
Kurt Browning: "Brick House"
Tara Lipinski: "Anastasia", "Rainbow", "Little Women"
Ye Bin Mok: "Spartacus"
Sarah Hughes: 02 Olympic LP, "Rach Cello Concerto", "I'll Never Say Goodbye"

There are probably more but I don't feel like listing them all right now. :)
 
Joined
Jun 21, 2003
In the pros, I liked:

Kristi Yamaguchi, Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Yuka Sato, Hatful of Stars
Kurt Browning, Singing in the Rain
Rudi Galindo, YMCA
 

show 42

Arm Chair Skate Fan
Record Breaker
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Jul 26, 2003
This is impossible...........it would be easier to list the performances that I didn't care for. I do like all the performances mentioned thus far....42
 

LarasB

Rinkside
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Aug 4, 2003
:) I agree with you Show 42. There are way too many favorites in my list that it would take forever to list them all.
 

Germanice

On the Ice
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Jul 27, 2003
- Alexei Yagudin / Lawrence of Arabia / Worlds 1999 Helsinki
- Alexei Yagudin / Gladiator / Euros 2001 Bratislava
- Alexei Yagudin / Etude of revolution / Worlds 2001 Vancouver
- Kurt Browning / That's entertainment! / Worlds Pros (?) 19?? in ??
- Jeff Buttle / The last emperor / Worlds 2002 Nagano

- Lu Chen / Rachmaninov / Worlds 1996 Edmonton
- Oksana Baiul / Song of the black swan / Olympics 1994 Lillehammer

- Mishkotionok/Dmitriev / Liebestraum / Worlds Munich 1991
- Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze / Charlie Chaplin / Worlds Vancouver 2001
- Shen/Zhao / Turandot / Worlds 2003 Washington

- Isabelle- und Paul Duchesnay / Missing / LP 1990 + 1991 (?)

Anke
 

guinevere

Final Flight
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Jul 28, 2003
I agree - so hard to choose! I'll try listing ones that I return to, either on tape or in my memory, frequently:

MK: Lyra Angelica & Rach, Dante's Prayer, Field of Gold
Yagudin: Gladiator (never saw it skated to its full potential tho)
Kurt: Brick House, Antares
Yuka Sato: Take My Hand (Dido)
Boitano: Blue, plus the wacky '60s-themed one from a couple of years ago
Kulik: Oly SP, most of his own pro choreography!
Usova/Platov: Scorpions song
Berezhnaia/Sikharulidze: The Kid

too hard to stop......

guinevere
 

Pookie

Final Flight
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Jul 27, 2003
Michelle - Dante's Prayer, East of Eden, Rachmaninoff . . . . .
Paul Wylie - Why God
Todd Eldredge - Glory
Mishkutionok & Dmitriev - Don Quixote, their 1994 Olympic LP
Usova & Zhulin - Summertime, their blues number . . . .
Torvill & Dean - anything they do
Duchensays - Missing, Savage Rites . . . . .

Too many to mention
 

icenut84

Final Flight
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Jul 27, 2003
Great thread! :) I love so many programmes, but I'll try to keep it to the best of the best:

*Michelle Kwan - Salome (96 Worlds LP), Fields of Gold (02 Olympics EX)
*Irina Slutskaya - Timeless (01 Worlds EX)
*Sasha Cohen - My Sweet and Tender Beast (02 Olympics SP), Malaguena (03 Worlds SP)
*Tara Lipinski - Tiny Dancer (01 SOI)
*Oksana Baiul - Swan (94 Olympics EX)
*Kristi Yamaguchi - Desert Rose (01 SOI), Trust & Try (02 SOI)
*Tanja Szewczenko - 94 Olympics SP

*Evgeny Plushenko - Sex Bomb (01 Worlds EX)
*Alexei Yagudin - Revolution Etude (01 Worlds SP)
*Kurt Browning - That's Entertainment, Nyah, Romeo & Juliet
*Stephane Lambiel - Cirque de Soleil (02 Euros LP)
*Alexander Abt - Rachmaninov (02 Euros LP)
*Elvis Stojko - Frogs in Space (94 Olympics SP)

*Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze - Impossible Dreams (99 Worlds EX), City Lights (01 Worlds LP), Meditation (02 Olympics LP), The Kid (02 Olympics EX)
*Abitbol & Bernadis - The Adams Family (02 Euros LP)
*Gordeeva & Grinkov - March of the Toreadors (88 Olympics SP), Reverie (94 Olympics EX)
*Shen & Zhao - Turandot (03 Worlds LP)
*Totmianina & Marinin - Peer Gynt (03 Worlds SP)
*Mishkutenok & Dmitriev - Rachmaninov (94 Olympics LP), 94 Olympics EX, Liebestraum (92 LP)

*Torvill & Dean - Let's Face The Music and Dance (94 Olympics FD), Bolero (84 FD), Paso Doble (84 OD), Summertime (82 OD), Mack and Mabel (82 FD), Barnum (83 FD), Encounter, Missing, Diablo Tango, Fire & Ice, Song of India, Hat Trick... ok I'll stop now.
*Bourne & Kraatz - Riverdance (98 Worlds FD), Sadeness (03 Worlds EX)
*Rahkamo & Kokko - La Strada (94 Euros FD)
*Lang & Tchernyshev - Parisienne Walkways (02 Olympics FD)
*Belbin & Agosto - Elvis Presley (03 Worlds FD)

etc etc :)
 

Antilles

Medalist
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Jul 26, 2003
So many to choose from...

Anissina and Peizerat: Carmina Burana, Man in the Iron Mask, Romeo and Juliet
D&V-Spente le Stelle
B&K-Riverdance
K&P-1992 FD, can't remember the name of it
Duchesneys-Missing

B&S-Chaplin, and their 2000 LP, can't remember the name
B&E-just about any of their pro routines
Underhill&Martini-When a Man Loves a Woman, Unchained Melody
M&D-1991 Liebestraum

Yagudin-Winter, Man in the Iron Mask, Gladiator
Browning-just about everything pro. Eligible wise, Casablanca

Kwan-Fields of Gold
Witt-Robin Hood, and one she did for Sarajevo
 

aly*cutie

On the Ice
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Jul 29, 2003
Michelle - Feilds of Gold, Aranjuez
Tara - The Rainbow, Once upon a december, Tiny Dancer
Sasha - Malaguena
 

Lcp88

On the Ice
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
I have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to many favorites to list, but these are some of the first ones that came to mind:

Michelle Kwan: Fields of Gold
Lang and Tchernyshev: Parisienne Walkways
Bourne and Kraatz: Riverdance, Adagio of the 21st Century
Alexei Yagudin: Man in the Iron Mask
Elena Sokolova: Her 2003 SP (I forgot the name)
Jenny Kirk: The Princess Diaries
Ina and Zimmerman: American Trilogy

Laura
 

Bynx

On the Ice
Joined
Jul 29, 2003
My all-time fav:

Michelle Kwan: Lyra Angelica 98' Nationals (Only time I've ever cried over skating)
 
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Jun 21, 2003
I just noticed something cool about this board. If someone posts a signature picture that is too wide to fit on the screen (total scren width = 750 pixels), the board stretches out that post only instead of the whole thread. Very nice.

My all-time favorites:

1998 Rachmaninov short program
1998 East of Eden exhibition program
2000 Red Violin LP and exhibition program
2003 The Feeling Begins SP
2003 Aranjuez LP

Mathman:love:
 

shine

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Jul 27, 2003
LOL, Mathman, just when I was wondering where your long list of Michelle's programs was! :laugh:
 
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SkateFan4Life

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More favorites:

Dorothy Hamill - "Firebird"
Tai Babilonia/Randy Gardner - "On Golden Pond"
Nancy Kerrigan - "Born on the Fourth of July"
Paul Wylie, "Why God?"
 

shine

Record Breaker
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Jul 27, 2003
It's too difficult a task to recall all the past favs of mine. But I'll just say that Stephane Lambiel's "Chocolat" LP from last season has definitely been added onto my all time fav list (if there ever exists one). Seldom do I find myself too impressed by light-hearted programs like this one, but I was simply enchanted throughout the whole thing despite the mistakes. It's magical...the skater, the music, the choreography.
 
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