All that skate show which was held on October 2 ,3 in LA was on TV (NBC) on Sunday morning.( October 10)
This show looked very high quality seeing all the settings around the ice rink and the hall and the cast members.
NBC showed from the opening group number.
I looked for Johnny ( always) , he was wearing blue pants and his eye make-up with black eye shadow, looked like he was wearing black sunglasses seeing from far away.
I got excited when I found Johnny in the opening number !Ray laughed whenever I was calling his name with excitement.
It’s a Yu Na Kim & Michelle Kwan’s ice show which was sponsored by Korean companies , and they mainly showed these two skaters.
The cast was :
Tanith & Ben
Patrick Chan
Yu Na Kim
Michelle Kwan
Stephane Lambiel
Aliona & Robin
Yu na & Michelle’s pair
Shen & Zhao
Johnny Weir
Michelle Kwan
Tessa & Scott
Yu Na Kim
It was from 11:30 AM to 1:00PM I hour and half .
There were also group number in the middle of the show ( on TV) and the finale was with Korean singer.
Johnny got hip injury during the practice before the show, but he fought with the pain and skated great and received huge standing ovation with loud screams.
He skated two numbers Heart broken and Poker face and they showed only his Poker face.
Except for Michelle Kwan and Yu Na Kim ,they only showed one performance for each skater.Felt bad for Ashley Wagner, they didn’t show her performance except for group numbers. Honestly I wanted to see Ashley’s number instead of one of Michelle or Yu na’s performances.
Before the commercials, they were showing Michelle & Yu Na for previews for the next segment , and I was glad they also showed Johnny before his turn came up.Johnny was wearing new Poker face costume.
From the beginning for his movements, I could see he had injury, because there was something wrong with his body movements like careful from his pain for his hips and can not move naturally. Because of the pain, Some of his movements looked casual.
I know he can skate much better than this performance if he didn’t have injury.
But still it was very entertaining with sense of humor and it made me and Ray laugh in some parts.
His movements are unique.
He was funny.
We repeated to watch it several times after recording it, skipping all the other skaters.
It's just my soul loves Johnny, even though it was not his best condition. but we enjoyed with it.
They introduced Johnny as “ a fashion designer, an author and has his own reality show, an original in every sense of the word. “
My top favorite of his Poker face performances is still his Festa On Ice show 2009. And I also loved his movements in his first Poker face Vman’s which was still work in process.
Also Cup of Russia ( Rostelecom cup‘s EX) in 2009 , he was angry to himself at that time for his competition performances, and his movements and expression looked sharp, and was even more powerful, it was beautifully sharp.
I really love it. I actually often loved his performances when he got angry because his performance got more power and energy from it.
GPF’s EX at 2009 was great ,too. It’s always slightly different every time he performed, depending on his feeling, I guess.
So I never bored watching his Poker face and many of his other programs. There are always something attractive part in his skating no matter the situations which some people may not be able to see.
That‘s why I have addiction for his skating.
They didn’t show his Heart broken number, but I watched it on you tube.
Johnny's Heart broken
I really loved this performance. Yu na and some other skaters had back ground scenery or video image while they were performing. It was nice.
I saw illusion of his world from his expression, pantomimes , movements with his deep emotion.
He is an artist who can create his own world with his performance and makes me see his imaginative world. I saw these illusions several times from his performances .
One of them is his performance “ You made me impressed “ by Korean singer. It was so imaginative and romantic but sad ending. ( in my own view)
Johnny’s eyes make-up looked heavy in his heart broken but I didn’t care for it while watching it.
I also loved his ballet style up-right spin. Look at his arms and hands and fingers, the way how he uses his body.
So sensitive, and beautiful and artistic. I care for each pose as well. Because all the movements comes from every well-balanced pose.
His backward sliding move, if we compared with his move a few years ago, the height of the back between his leg is getting lower.
I have tried to make this pose on the floor several times, but it’s incredibly hard.
I still can not make it.
I have seen Stephane Lambiel and Yu Na Kim tried this pose. But they looked hard to make it at all.
Kelly’s comment in her twitter,
“ At the staple centre watching @JohnnyGWeir in all that skate oh my god he is amazing I'm utterly speechless I can't stop screaming!!!! “
Brad Goreski also sounded very excited to see his Poker face,
“Johnny just killed it with his Poker face”
It was also nice to see the photo, which Johnny’s happy smiling face with a gorgeous roses gift from Johnny’s Korean fans “ Hyenaz”.
http://twitpic.com/2tprz7 at Johnny’s twit pic.
He has been receiving these bunch of flowers gift from his fans every ice show.
Japanese fans, Chinese fans, they also gave gorgeous roses when he was skating in Japan and China.
In Japan, I saw each men’s skater’s received flower gifts in a photo during Fantasy on ice show in Fukui, and I know there are many Japanese Johnny fans who are multiple skaters fans, looked like some fans are thinking about not only their favorite skaters but also preparing other skater’s gift as well.
Maybe their policy to make all the skaters feel good when they visited to perform in Japan.
Seeing this ice show on TV, I realized things changed since when first time went to ice show, in 2006.
It was held in Phoenix ( COI ) , and at that time most of audience cheered only for Michelle Kwan, then Sasha Cohen.
And the rest of the skaters didn’t get much screams. Especially men’s skaters and foreigner skaters whether they skated good or bad.
When I talked with people who were sitting next to us, they only knew Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, and also Olympics Champion Evgeny Plushenko.
But I didn’t see any sign for skaters in arena, even Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen. We brought a sign for Johnny.
And also seems like there are some other Johnny fans were also showing his signs far from our seats.
People around me and my husband were curious to see our sign and was asking who are you supporting ? And they didn’t know who Johnny is. And many people were looking at our sign like we are doing something unusual. It was Phoenix COI.
I remember I really wished to see an ice show with Johnny the most popular skater in the future.
But in San Jose COI in 2007, audience reaction to each skater was much better. I suppose depending on the location in the USA, it’s so different.
Johnny was answering the question for where is your favorite place to perform in the USA ? And he answered he loves to perform in the east coast area where there are many of his friends are there to support at that time.
And now Johnny’ s popularity increased hugely especially after Vancouver Olympics.
Even though Michelle Kwan has been getting huge appealed from audiences, I’m not sure she has loyal fans like Johnny has.
What I saw in San Jose COI in 2007, fans who were waiting at the skaters bus area were all Johnny Weir fans after the show finished.
There were 7 people there at the gate of the skater’s bus area. We were not supposed to be there, we went there for just wanted to give our gift for Johnny in the security office because one of the guards told us the direction. But it was skater’s bus parking area.
I remember that In Russian TV also commentated in Rosterecom Cup, as Johnny has the most loyal passionate fans and was showing his Russian fans support for him in arena.
That’s one of the reasons I feel Johnny’s popularity is amazing.
When Johnny had to cancel for one of his ice shows in Russia a few years ago, a Russian lady told me, teen age Johnny fans burned the ticket crying in front of the gate of the show after hearing Johnny had to cancel for it right before the date of the show because of US federation rule.
What makes people act like that ?
The tickets for the show was really expensive according to her ( the Russian lady) because of the location and the cast and it seems it was a special ice show.
But the teenage girls who bought the expensive tickets after working hard, burned the tickets because they couldn't see Johnny. His charm is killer ? Amazing.I really enjoy seeing the audience reaction from his performances and his populatity.
Thank you to people who invited Johnny in this awesome ice show !I hope he will achieve his dream to have his own ice show in the future.
Johnny’s back award sliding pose in heart broken is incredible.
He used his head on the ice at the end and expressing with his arms and hands.
I wonder doesn’t he get cold with his head on the ice while doing it ?
In the arena, his friend Kelly Osborne and Brad Goreski
were there to see his performances.
Tanith & Ben
Patrick Chan
Yu Na Kim
Michelle Kwan
Stephane Lambiel
Aliona & Robin
Yu na & Michelle’s pair
Shen & Zhao
Johnny Weir
Michelle Kwan
Tessa & Scott
Yu Na Kim
It was from 11:30 AM to 1:00PM I hour and half .
There were also group number in the middle of the show ( on TV) and the finale was with Korean singer.
Johnny got hip injury during the practice before the show, but he fought with the pain and skated great and received huge standing ovation with loud screams.
He skated two numbers Heart broken and Poker face and they showed only his Poker face.
Except for Michelle Kwan and Yu Na Kim ,they only showed one performance for each skater.Felt bad for Ashley Wagner, they didn’t show her performance except for group numbers. Honestly I wanted to see Ashley’s number instead of one of Michelle or Yu na’s performances.
Before the commercials, they were showing Michelle & Yu Na for previews for the next segment , and I was glad they also showed Johnny before his turn came up.Johnny was wearing new Poker face costume.
From the beginning for his movements, I could see he had injury, because there was something wrong with his body movements like careful from his pain for his hips and can not move naturally. Because of the pain, Some of his movements looked casual.
I know he can skate much better than this performance if he didn’t have injury.
But still it was very entertaining with sense of humor and it made me and Ray laugh in some parts.
His movements are unique.
He was funny.
We repeated to watch it several times after recording it, skipping all the other skaters.
It's just my soul loves Johnny, even though it was not his best condition. but we enjoyed with it.
They introduced Johnny as “ a fashion designer, an author and has his own reality show, an original in every sense of the word. “
My top favorite of his Poker face performances is still his Festa On Ice show 2009. And I also loved his movements in his first Poker face Vman’s which was still work in process.
Also Cup of Russia ( Rostelecom cup‘s EX) in 2009 , he was angry to himself at that time for his competition performances, and his movements and expression looked sharp, and was even more powerful, it was beautifully sharp.
I really love it. I actually often loved his performances when he got angry because his performance got more power and energy from it.
GPF’s EX at 2009 was great ,too. It’s always slightly different every time he performed, depending on his feeling, I guess.
So I never bored watching his Poker face and many of his other programs. There are always something attractive part in his skating no matter the situations which some people may not be able to see.
That‘s why I have addiction for his skating.
They didn’t show his Heart broken number, but I watched it on you tube.
Johnny's Heart broken
I really loved this performance. Yu na and some other skaters had back ground scenery or video image while they were performing. It was nice.
I saw illusion of his world from his expression, pantomimes , movements with his deep emotion.
He is an artist who can create his own world with his performance and makes me see his imaginative world. I saw these illusions several times from his performances .
One of them is his performance “ You made me impressed “ by Korean singer. It was so imaginative and romantic but sad ending. ( in my own view)
Johnny’s eyes make-up looked heavy in his heart broken but I didn’t care for it while watching it.
I also loved his ballet style up-right spin. Look at his arms and hands and fingers, the way how he uses his body.
So sensitive, and beautiful and artistic. I care for each pose as well. Because all the movements comes from every well-balanced pose.
His backward sliding move, if we compared with his move a few years ago, the height of the back between his leg is getting lower.
I have tried to make this pose on the floor several times, but it’s incredibly hard.
I still can not make it.
I have seen Stephane Lambiel and Yu Na Kim tried this pose. But they looked hard to make it at all.
Kelly’s comment in her twitter,
“ At the staple centre watching @JohnnyGWeir in all that skate oh my god he is amazing I'm utterly speechless I can't stop screaming!!!! “
Brad Goreski also sounded very excited to see his Poker face,
“Johnny just killed it with his Poker face”
It was also nice to see the photo, which Johnny’s happy smiling face with a gorgeous roses gift from Johnny’s Korean fans “ Hyenaz”.
http://twitpic.com/2tprz7 at Johnny’s twit pic.
He has been receiving these bunch of flowers gift from his fans every ice show.
Japanese fans, Chinese fans, they also gave gorgeous roses when he was skating in Japan and China.
In Japan, I saw each men’s skater’s received flower gifts in a photo during Fantasy on ice show in Fukui, and I know there are many Japanese Johnny fans who are multiple skaters fans, looked like some fans are thinking about not only their favorite skaters but also preparing other skater’s gift as well.
Maybe their policy to make all the skaters feel good when they visited to perform in Japan.
Seeing this ice show on TV, I realized things changed since when first time went to ice show, in 2006.
It was held in Phoenix ( COI ) , and at that time most of audience cheered only for Michelle Kwan, then Sasha Cohen.
And the rest of the skaters didn’t get much screams. Especially men’s skaters and foreigner skaters whether they skated good or bad.
When I talked with people who were sitting next to us, they only knew Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, and also Olympics Champion Evgeny Plushenko.
But I didn’t see any sign for skaters in arena, even Michelle Kwan and Sasha Cohen. We brought a sign for Johnny.
And also seems like there are some other Johnny fans were also showing his signs far from our seats.
People around me and my husband were curious to see our sign and was asking who are you supporting ? And they didn’t know who Johnny is. And many people were looking at our sign like we are doing something unusual. It was Phoenix COI.
I remember I really wished to see an ice show with Johnny the most popular skater in the future.
But in San Jose COI in 2007, audience reaction to each skater was much better. I suppose depending on the location in the USA, it’s so different.
Johnny was answering the question for where is your favorite place to perform in the USA ? And he answered he loves to perform in the east coast area where there are many of his friends are there to support at that time.
And now Johnny’ s popularity increased hugely especially after Vancouver Olympics.
Even though Michelle Kwan has been getting huge appealed from audiences, I’m not sure she has loyal fans like Johnny has.
What I saw in San Jose COI in 2007, fans who were waiting at the skaters bus area were all Johnny Weir fans after the show finished.
There were 7 people there at the gate of the skater’s bus area. We were not supposed to be there, we went there for just wanted to give our gift for Johnny in the security office because one of the guards told us the direction. But it was skater’s bus parking area.
I remember that In Russian TV also commentated in Rosterecom Cup, as Johnny has the most loyal passionate fans and was showing his Russian fans support for him in arena.
That’s one of the reasons I feel Johnny’s popularity is amazing.
When Johnny had to cancel for one of his ice shows in Russia a few years ago, a Russian lady told me, teen age Johnny fans burned the ticket crying in front of the gate of the show after hearing Johnny had to cancel for it right before the date of the show because of US federation rule.
What makes people act like that ?
The tickets for the show was really expensive according to her ( the Russian lady) because of the location and the cast and it seems it was a special ice show.
But the teenage girls who bought the expensive tickets after working hard, burned the tickets because they couldn't see Johnny. His charm is killer ? Amazing.I really enjoy seeing the audience reaction from his performances and his populatity.
Thank you to people who invited Johnny in this awesome ice show !I hope he will achieve his dream to have his own ice show in the future.
Johnny’s back award sliding pose in heart broken is incredible.
He used his head on the ice at the end and expressing with his arms and hands.
I wonder doesn’t he get cold with his head on the ice while doing it ?
In the arena, his friend Kelly Osborne and Brad Goreski
were there to see his performances.