Solo acts like Ryker Long’s performance to songs by Elvis Presley and Brynn Currie’s All That Jazz captivated the hundreds of family members and friends filling the stands, while assortments of flapper-girls, Michael Jackson look-alikes, and would-be Spice Girls had fans calling for more from their seats.

“It was great, it was super busy, the kids were excited and I . . .

think everybody was happy. We filled the stands and all of the kids did awesome,” said head coach at the club, Kayla Savard.

Savard, who choreographed the dances, picked the music and helped coordinate costumes, said she had chosen the “skating through time” theme as it allowed for a highly varied selection of performances. “We got to play with all the different genres,” she said.

“I really enjoyed the theme of this one [show], personally,” said Kristina Monette, a mother of three whose children have participated in multiple shows over the past several years. “I thought the song selection was really well done.”

Cub president Shelley Heaphy explained that Friday’s show had actually been scheduled for 2020, and cancelled because of pandemic lockdown measures.

“It was nice [. . .] some of them [skaters] finally got to realize what they’d planned to do before we got shut down,” Heaphy said. “And it’s fun to revisit songs you don’t always hear anymore.”

End-of-year shows are a well-loved tradition for skaters at the club.

“I think for the skaters it becomes their biggest night of the year,” Savard said, adding that while some skaters from the club competed throughout the season, the end-of-year show marks an opportunity for all skaters to showcase all that they’ve learned and practiced.

“And the kids love the costumes, they love the lights, the decorations and the balloons, it makes it like their big finale,” Savard said.

Monette, speaking for her children, said, “they love the show, they look forward to the show, they love dressing up, and then they want to go back the following year.”

“To me, that’s a success,” she said.

Skaters in the show ranged in age from three to twenty. Above is the Pre-CanSkate group performing to Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me to the Moon, accompanied by program assistants.

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