Can Seal make figure skating cool?
BY MARIA SCIARRINO, On The Scene Ed. note: Last night, the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., hosted “The Music Of Seal On Ice,” which would bring together the songs of the deep-voiced, Heidi Klum-attached crooner and the ice-skating prowess of Brian Boitano, Todd Eldredge, and Kyoko Ina and John Zimmerman (who look like they’re attacking Seal with Ina’s skate above). And lucky for us, former Idolator guestblogger Maria Sciarrino happens to be an expert on both figure skating and pop music, so we bundled her up and sent her down to the nation’s capital for a report on just what would happen when one tried to combine a Seal concert with a few jumps and spins on the ice. Around 4 p.m. yesterday I was dealing with the fact that I was not going to see “The Music of Seal on Ice,” a benefit for Autism Speaks that’ll air on TV next month, down in D.C. Tickets appeared to have sold out and Craiglist’s scalpers were asking upwards of $300. (This was “Seal on Ice,” not the Arcade Fire at Randal
