… there was a dream of the „Magic of Love” “In the Country of Dreams”. A dream under the “Rainbow” with “Masquerades”, “Confetti” and “Cocktails”. These were the imaginative names of the imaginative productions of the Revue (1945/46 – 1970/71).
Why was an Ice Revue developed in Vienna? There are two explanations. A sportive and an imaginative. The sportive explanation starts with much Austrian success in figure skating before and after World War II, among others Karl Schäfer, Emmy Puzinger, Emmerich Danzer. So there was potential for founding an Austrian style „Holiday On Ice“. With the music by Robert Stolz and the style of ice operettas they made the Austrian audience happy and could distinguish themselves abroad from their competitors. “The Vienna Ice Revue was a guarantee that after the War there was an Austrian product that was both brilliant and glamorous.” [1] The imaginative explanation is that Vienna was the right place for icy seductions & innovations, colourful & sweet ice exhibits. As a “logic consequence” the Eismarillenknödel (Ice Apricot Dumplings) got invented in 1967 and earned their inventor the title Kommerzialrat. Read the rest of this entry »
