When Prince Rainier of Monaco saw the show for the first time he announced
"This is the kind of classy family show that Monaco needs every year".
This told Vee that her tiny acorn had indeed flourished into a mighty oak.

Born in a small Yorkshire village, Vee’s unique style took her to Sunderland Flying Club where she was a director of the flying school to her promoting showbiz concerts and theatre shows for Syd Lawrence and his band, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Georgian State Dancers, Band of the Royal Marines, and Rudolph Nureyev’s UK Tour.

During her time at the flying club, Vee acquired her pilot’s licence, learned to parachute, and originated sponsored parachute jumps in Britain, raising £26,000 for one charity after persuading nurses, doctors and reporters as well as pilots to jump out of a plane.

Vee lives in what she regards as, the most beautiful setting in the world, a four hundred years old watermill in North Wales, along with her partner, three cats, Pyrean Mountain dog and her two Japanese
Akita dogs.

Following the success of Wild Rose’s first production of the Russian Ice Stars in the UK with The Sleeping Beauty on Ice, Vee’s original vision has led the show to worldwide success, playing to sell-out audiences in Denmark, Cyprus, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand and Monte Carlo.

Colin Angus
Executive Producer


Colin has a lifetime's experience of theatrical management at his fingertips.

Julian Deplidge
Director

Julie Maher
Office Manager

D.Michael Rose for Tarlo, Lyons Solicitors
Legal Consultant

John Spencer for Connor Spencer & Co
Accountant

Cavalieri Giuseppe Arena
Choreographer & Artistic Director

Silvio Amato
Composer

Born in Catania, on the 10th April, 1961, Amato started to demonstrate his vocation for music from an early age. After several years of training in classical piano, Amato was largely self taught, and he went on to collaborate, both as keyboard player and composer, with a variety of pop artists. Moving to Milan in
the mid 1980's, Amato's career diversified again, adding to his pop collaborations, compositions for Italian commercial television (Mediaset). During this period Amato collaborated with Massimo Ranieri for the 42nd San Remo song festival, and wrote numerous compositions for children's television, including several commercially sucessful cartoon theme tunes.

The 1990's Amato broadened his horizons once more, as he became increasingly involved in television music production; this work included writing and producing music for soap opera and early evening variety shows, as well as numerous programme theme tunes.

Amato’s extreme compositional freshness, is greatly suited to visual material,
and cinema film scores were a natural progression. Among the many soundtracks written between 1900 and 2000, particular critical appreciation was reserved for
‘I mitici’ by Carlo Vanzina, ‘Svitati’, starring Mel Brooks, ‘Ti voglio bene Eugenio’, with Giancarlo Giannini, Giuliana De Sio, and Jacques Perrin. The cd, of imminent publication, saw as an interpretor the writer Andrea Camilleri in the usual role of narrating voice. In 2005 Amato composed the sacred opera'Cantata religiosa' (Religious Cantata) for orchestra and vocal group.

Since 2000, Amato has been working more in the field of 'cultured' music, composing a musical fairy tale based on Oscar Wilde’s ' The Happy Prince', performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala, and narrated by the actor, Gabriele Lavia. Next came the opera 'Museo d'ombre' (Museum of Shadows) written for chamber orchestra.

Still in 2005 he began the extraordinary collaboration with Wild Rose.
The music in scene for the shows 'Snow White on Ice' and 'Peter Pan on Ice' obtain consensus from the critics and the audience.

In July 2006, he realised the music for an important documentary on 'Sicily', for Italian television (Mediaset). In January 2007, he concluded the orchestral reduction of the opera ' The Happy Prince', that was performed in July of the same year in Japan, from the ensemble of the theatre 'Alla Scala' in Milan, obtaining a fantastic success. In February 2007 he wrote the soundtrack for an important cartoon for the Italian television (Mediaset). At present, he is finishing the registration of a cd for a solo piano, entitled 'Landscape'.

Ludmilla Butskova
Rehearsal Director

After graduating from the Moscow Stae Academic Choreographical School, Ludmilla was invited to perform in the Bolshoi Theatre. From 1966 - 1988 she was the soloist in many ballets such as 'The Fountain of Bakhchisarai', 'The Street Dancer', 'Don Qixote' and 'Carmen'.

When Ludmilla retired from performing, she worked as a teacher of classical and modern dance in the Bolshoi Theatre. She also staged dances in other theatres for performances such as 'Rigoletto' and 'Hamlet'.

For five years Ludmilla was the choreographer for Russia's best ice skating team led by Natalia Dubova. Ludmilla's skaters won many medals in European and World Championships and also in the Olympic Games.

Ludmilla has consulted and worked with many sport dancers on ice worldwide.

Mikhail Stifounine
Assistant Rehearsal Director

Mikhail left Moscow for France in 1999. Whilst living in Bordeaux he decided to further his career and train as
a coach and choreographer. He moved on to work in Pralognan-La-Vanoise and then joined the Russian Ice Stars.

Since working for Wild Rose, as well as performing major roles in many productions, for the last two years he has been assistant rehearsal director and this year has been working alongside choreographer Cavaliere Giuseppe Arena with whom he has worked with during the last nine years.