OVO Arena, Wembley, London
This highlight reel of totemic routines interspersed with some dazzling cast numbers showcases the couple’s former greatness and timeless elegance
A painfully mirthless Dancing on Ice skit during Torvill and Dean’s farewell tour stages an assault on their signature Boléro. Set to a grating banjo version of Ravel’s score, the scene encapsulates our fear: will the former Olympians trash their legacy by taking to the ice in their nana era?
But Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean are a class act, and leave the memories intact. This final show, a glide down memory lane, narrates their highlights and revisits totemic routines. With filmed chat and nifty graphics, they take us from childhood meet at Nottingham Ice Stadium (their personae of “blond prince” and “queen bee” established early), through to Olympic gold in 1984 and a resurgent career in reality TV.
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