Contacts for Disney on Ice

[Aussie Willy]

I was hoping someone could help me.

We have Disney on Ice coming to Melbourne in July and our sport was hoping to do some promotion through the show.

However trying to find someone I can even send an email to is not easy to find, particularly seeing the website for Disney on Ice does not have anyway to email.

So if someone knows someone or knows this information, just so I can find out the organisation who is promoting the event in Australia I would be most appreciative.

Thanks in advance.

Kim

[toadlyluvsk8ing]

hey AussieWilly. I have an e-mail address and phone number for you. Lisa Scuffell is the Recruiting annd Production Assistant for Feld Entertainment Inc., which is the company that hires for Disney on Ice. She may be able to give you some info. Her e-mail is lscuffel@feldinc.com and her phone number in the USA is 941-721-1235. The fax number is 941-349-4280. Hope this will help you out. Good Luck. Let me know how you make out.

[expo86]

Here's a link to the contact info page for all Feld events:

http://www.feldinc.com/contact.htm

Good luck!

[jp1andOnly]

My brother will be in the show. He'll be doing Gaston as far as I know. Probably some chorus stuff as well.


I was hoping someone could help me.

We have Disney on Ice coming to Melbourne in July and our sport was hoping to do some promotion through the show.

However trying to find someone I can even send an email to is not easy to find, particularly seeing the website for Disney on Ice does not have anyway to email.

So if someone knows someone or knows this information, just so I can find out the organisation who is promoting the event in Australia I would be most appreciative.

Thanks in advance.

Kim

[WeBeEducated]

jp- could you tell me please what a typical salary is for a soloist?
thanks

[jp1andOnly]

i honestly don't know. It's my brothers contract and I don't have the details. He didn't do a soloist part for the whole tour.

Bascially what you make will cover your expenses such as food, lodging, etc. You are responsible to pay for all expenses when the tour takes a brak. For example, the tour took a 10 day break earlier and the skaters must pay for their own time off.

It also depnds on the tour you go on. The Asian tour is well taken care of but everythign is VERY expensive.

Basically, if you come home with a few thousand than you did pretty good. Most skaters don't go for the pay, but for the experience

[Aussie Willy]

Thanks for all your responses.

Well after a bit of research I got onto the people in Melbourne who are running the show. They were so unhelpful in terms of not letting us promote figure skating in Melbourne at their show (which we are trying to do a big push about). Their response was if they helped us they would have to help any other organisation who approached them. Did not matter that what we are trying to promote has a total relationship to their event. Even when I said that some of our Melbourne skaters appear in Disney it did not change their mind.

I suppose they have their reasons, it is just disappointing that probably the best avenue that we might be able to get new skaters from is something we cannot use. It is not even shown on TV here so the sport is not in people's minds and this would be a great way to put it there.

We have Sleeping Beauty on Ice coming up in August so hopefully they might be a bit more willing to help us.

[Clarice]

Good luck! Our arena won't ever let us have promotional booths or whatever on the concourse during ice shows; it's just policy. You might have better luck with the local media - with an ice show in town, they might be interested in running features on the local skating scene along with the show coverage.

[dr.frog]

Disney On Ice exists solely to promote the Disney franchise -- videos, character merchandise, theme parks, etc -- rather than to promote skating. I suspect that any local tie-in has to be approved by the corporate mucky-mucks and would have to be structured in such a way that Disney gets more publicity out of it than the organization you're trying to promote.

[conc]

... has to be approved by the corporate mucky-mucks

Don't you mean Micky-mucks?

[mskater]

-WeBeEducated,

I have heard that "Holiday on Ice" pays much more than "Disney on Ice". As far as I know, Holiday on Ice doesn't have a tour that runs through the US.

[b2tfuture]

I also know someone who tours with Disney and though the money is not alot you can save it you learn to budget correctly. It is natural to want to have a good time, most of the skaters are young and probably would rather party, therefore spending alot of money on that.
Yes you do have to pay for your lodging (max. of $20.00 per night) so not too bad and you do have to pay for your food but that too can be controlled if you learn to eat your breakfast in your hotel (ie by buying fruit, muffins etc) .
Like you say, most go for the experience and that it is. How many people can say they have travelled as extensively as these kids not to mention the Media and acting training they receive while they are there.

Cheers!







i honestly don't know. It's my brothers contract and I don't have the details. He didn't do a soloist part for the whole tour.

Bascially what you make will cover your expenses such as food, lodging, etc. You are responsible to pay for all expenses when the tour takes a brak. For example, the tour took a 10 day break earlier and the skaters must pay for their own time off.

It also depnds on the tour you go on. The Asian tour is well taken care of but everythign is VERY expensive.

Basically, if you come home with a few thousand than you did pretty good. Most skaters don't go for the pay, but for the experience

[WeBeEducated]

ok, but what I need to know is a general idea of the the typical salary .

for example, would the average member of Disney make about $15,000 a year?
or
$40,00?
I mean, is is really low wages, less than $1200 per month?

[jp1andOnly]

ok, but what I need to know is a general idea of the the typical salary .

for example, would the average member of Disney make about $15,000 a year?
or
$40,00?
I mean, is is really low wages, less than $1200 per month?

Hmmm...not too sure, 'cause again it depends on what role you have, but i'd estimate conservatively at 20,000-30,000 USD

[b2tfuture]

Hmmm...not too sure, 'cause again it depends on what role you have, but i'd estimate conservatively at 20,000-30,000 USD


I think $20,000.00 is a good estimate. You can make more if you help loading/unloading trucks etc. but just for the skating portion I think $20,000 is a good figure.

[iskater13]

About 8 years ago the starting pay was 32 :) 0 a week, I am sure it has not gone up too much. Of course that was for a chorus position, if you were a character you made an extra 50 bucks a week, same with understudies. hope this helps!

[iskater13]

the smiley got in the way, the starting pay was 320 a week!

[WeBeEducated]

$320 a week...Hmm, I thought it would be more.
That is fairly low ; less than $20,000 a year bascially.
wow!
There are not that many people highly skilled at skating and expressive and the right size etc., are there for it to be such low pay?
And yes, it would be a fun experience but a decent skater can coach for $50 an hour, so I would expect performance pay to be alot more than that.

[jp1andOnly]

A person could coach but they may not like coaching. Not everyone wants to be a coach or work with little kids. And really you only make decent money coaching if you *did* something in skating. In Canada you also have to take a year or longer to complete the coaching requirements.

The reason why you get so little is basically you travel around the world for very little. You get your airfare paid for and the majority of your hotel paid for.



$320 a week...Hmm, I thought it would be more.
That is fairly low ; less than $20,000 a year bascially.
wow!
There are not that many people highly skilled at skating and expressive and the right size etc., are there for it to be such low pay?
And yes, it would be a fun experience but a decent skater can coach for $50 an hour, so I would expect performance pay to be alot more than that.

[max]

I think this is right. The pay isn't what it's all about. My daughter has been in Holiday in Ice since November and as well as visiting France & Switzerland, has been to Mexico for 6 weeks, and is at the moment in Singapore before going on to Hong Kong, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. All accommodation and flights paid for on this particular tour and, lucky for them, because of show schedules with a reasonable amount of time off for being tourists. Not many kids of 19 get this type of opportunity to see the world or, if they were working in other jobs, would be able to afford to go to these places.

[iskater13]

I traveled all over the world. Today, I would never have time to go to 1/4 of the places I have been. The extra money I had was spent on museums and sights of interest, sure glad I did it!