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Feld has become an ice-rink impresario as well. The company created an ice show under license from the Disney company in 1981 and now has five touring companies. One of the shows, which stars Mickey Mouse, features 60 skaters (average age: 21), who perform scenes from such cartoons as Steamboat Willie and Fantasia. The skaters need 245 costumes, which contain "enough spandex to cover a football field," the promoters...
...daring trapeze artists. The head of Irvin Feld and Kenneth Feld Productions, based in suburban Washington, he is the world's leading producer of live entertainment. Feld not only commands three traveling units of the Greatest Show on Earth, but he is also the creator of five touring Walt Disney's World on Ice spectacles and has just completed work on the new $20 million Siegfried & Roy magic show, which opened Feb. 1 in Las Vegas...
...million visitors between them. Next were the Japanese, with 3 million tourists. But the Japanese spent more on their trips than any other group, a total of $6 billion, compared with $4.8 billion for the second-place Canadians. The No. 1 destination among all visitors to America: Walt Disney World in Orlando...
These days, however, children's museums have been dusted off, jazzed up and wired for action. Young visitors are increasingly encouraged to explore a host of interactive exhibits. Raised on mornings with Big Bird and vacations at Disney World, today's kids are sophisticated "infotainment" consumers. Birmingham sixth-grader Tracy Brunson speaks for many of her peers when she says, "Walking and looking is boring. Touching is funner...
...last September and installed producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters as co-chairmen. She departs with a pay package said to be worth $7 million. While her abrasiveness has earned her the label "Steely Dawn," her star may keep on rising. Among the studios reportedly negotiating with her are Disney, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros...