In 1936, John H Harris, a Pittsburgh rink owner, hired the legendary skater Sonja Henie to perform between periods of ice hockey games. When he and other rink owners noticed the swelling crowds, they created an ice carnival that would entertain crowds in rinks across America. The Ice Capades were born.
The competing pulls of professional figure skating on the one hand and the emergence of Disney on Ice on the other hand, led to the Ice Capades ending their run in 1995. A couple revival attempts in 2000 and 2008 failed. And so all was done...until 2021.
The Hass Avocado Jnrs realised that while audiences were done with vaudevillian skating routines, they weren't done with fun and japes in the cold. So introducing the thoroughly modern Ice Capades for the 21st century!!!
Act I: There's snow place like home
The crowd are on their feet, the applause is deafening. Can this show get any better?
ACT II: Be careful, that's a slippery slope you're going down
The audience is crying with laugher. Never have they seen such antics! A chant has started, "More, more, more!"
ACT III: Going skating at night was a snow brainer
What a show! What a performance! From young to old, the audience are leaving the auditorium wanting more. The Avocado Juniors are busy preparing for the next big concert. But wait, the organisers want a word with Pater. Something about needing to clean up first...
Dear Avocado Juniors
When you look back on this year aka "2020 Hindsight Vision", Pater has no doubt you'll have very mixed emotions and wonder what to make of it all. The 3 Cs will come to mind; Cancel, Chaos and Quarantine (!). True, you all came closer together as we isolated through the Spring, Summer, Autumn and now the Winter, as a nuclear unit that thankfully did not go nuclear. But you also spent the time unable to attend summer camp, hug your grandmas, play freely with friends, or celebrate festivals and milestones with family. Globally, the world witnessed misery, sadness and a widening of divides across a myriad of spectrums. So the question remains how best to treat 2020, the year that never was? There have been pages and pages of editorials and blogposts, trying to understand, trying to explain, trying to rationalise this year. But perhaps the approach you all took was the best - sleep it off and pretend it never even happened (though some of you seemed to be better at this approach than others...).
On behalf of you slumbering Avocado Juniors, Pater will paraphrase the Bard and bid 2020 good night, good night, parting is not such sweet sorrow.
Love
Hasses aren't only avocados.
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