By Gina Capellazzi, Team FSO website administrator
Photos by Robin Ritoss, from previous Stars on Ice shows
After a one-year pause, the Stars on Ice tour in the U.S. will resume this year, bringing three of the four newly crowned World Champions to six-cities this May. Along with the World Champions, the cast also includes skaters looking to make the 2026 Olympic Team.
The 2025 tour with the theme, “Rock Stars on Ice” will kick off in Seattle, Wa. on May 15 and run through May 25.
The tour is headlined by Alysa Liu, who recently became the first U.S. woman to win a world title in 19 years. After retiring from skating following the 2022 World Championships, Liu returned to competitive skating for the 2024-2025 season. In addition to her World title, Liu is the 2025 U.S. silver medalist. She is also the 2019 and 2020 U.S. Champion, 2022 World bronze medalist and a 2022 Olympian. This marks Liu’s first Stars on Ice tour since her retirement in 2022. In addition to the 2022 tour, she also was a part of the 2019 Stars on Ice tour.
Also headlining this year’s tour is Ilia Malinin, who captured his second consecutive World title at the World Championships in Boston in March. Malinin went undefeated during the 2024-2025 season, winning his third U.S. title, as well as his second Grand Prix Final title. This will be only Malinin’s second U.S. Stars on Ice tour. He first performed in the tour in 2023.
Joining Liu and Malinin is Olympic Champions and three-time World Champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates. This season, the ice dancers made history by winning their sixth U.S. title, tying Olympic Champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White’s record of six ice dance gold medals. At the World Champions, Chock and Bates became the first U.S. ice dance team to win three World titles and the first ice dance team to win the World Championships three times in a row since Oksana Grishuk and Evgeni Platov, who won four gold medals from 1994 to 1997. The 2025 U.S. Stars on Ice tour marks Chock and Bates’ fifth U.S. tour.
A rock and roll theme would not be complete without Canada’s Elvis Stojko, who has been coined the “King of Rock on Ice.” The two-time Olympic silver medalist, three-time World champion and seven-time Canadian champion is making his U.S. tour debut after years of performing in the Canadian tour. At age 53, Stojko’s first Stars on Ice tour was in 1993, and this year’s Canada tour will mark his 10th tour.
Another Canadian favorite joining the U.S. tour for the first time is two-time Canadian Champion and two-time Olympian Keegan Messing. Messing retired from competitive skating in 2023, but has been performing in the Canadian tour every year since 2022.
Also a part of the U.S. cast is two-time U.S. Champion Amber Glenn, who is making her Stars on Ice debut. Glenn had an incredible season, which included winning the Grand Prix Final. She was the first U.S. woman to win the Grand Prix Final in almost fifteen years since Stars on Ice alum Alissa Czisny won it in 2010. 2024 World bronze medalist and 2023 U.S champion Isabeau Levito is taking part in her second U.S. Stars on Ice tour. She also will be performing in the Canadian tour. 2014 Olympic bronze medalist and 2015 U.S. Champion Jason Brown will be taking part in his sixth Stars on Ice tour. He also will be taking part in the Canadian tour. Rounding out the cast for the 2025 tour is two-time World medalist and four-time Japanese Champion Satoko Miyahara of Japan, who is participating in her second U.S. tour. 
After kicking off the tour in Washington state, the show will head south to California and perform shows in Anaheim and San Jose. It will then head north to St. Paul, Minn. before going east to Hershey, Pa. and to the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Mass, just outside of Boston. Due to an overwhelming demand for the Boston show, a second Boston show has been added. For both Boston shows, Stars on Ice is welcoming three-time U.S. pewter medalist Maxim Naumov. Naumov, who is a member of the Skating Club of Boston, will be making his first public performance at his home rink since losing his parents, 1994 World Champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, in the January mid-air aviation crash that also claimed the lives of 26 other members of the skating community. Naumov will be introduced by Stojko, who won his first World Championship in 1994, the same year as Naumov’s parents.
For a list of cities and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.starsonice.com/buy-tickets.
Along with tickets, fans can also purchase post-show meet and greet passes, which allows attendees the opportunity to meet and chat with the Stars on Ice cast. Only a limited number of passes are available, with many meet and greets selling out prior to the show. As of early April, meet and greet passes only remain for the second Skating Club of Boston show. To purchase meet and greet passes, click here.
The Pre-show Stargazer is new for the 2025 U.S. tour. During the Pre-show Stargazer, fans also have the opportunity to enter the venue early to watch the skaters warm up on the ice, along with attend a group question and answer session with Glenn and Brown. The warm-ups begin three-and-half hours prior to the show time, with the question and answer session approximately an hour-and-a-half prior to show time. The Pre-show Stargazer sessions will end approximately 1 hour prior to the show. Pre-show Stargazers can be purchased here.
Canadian tour
Stars on Ice will also be rockin’ and rollin’ through Canada this spring with the Canadian tour, which kicks off in Halifax, Nova Scotia April 25 and will visit 10 cities before wrapping up in Vancouver, British Columbia May 13.
The Canadian tour will also have the theme, “Rock Stars on Ice”, and will feature Stojko, along with other U.S. Stars on Ice cast members Messing, Levito, Brown and Miyahara.
The Canadian tour also stars four-time World medalists and two-time Olympians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier. The four-time Canadian champions, who won their second straight Four Continents Championship, are taking part in their fifth Canadian tour. The two did perform in the U.S. tour in 2023.
Three-time Canadian Champion Madeline Schizas, who had her best finish at the World Championships this past March, is participating in her third Stars on Ice tour.
Though retiring from competitive skating in 2022, two-time Canadian Champion Nam Nguyen still performs from time-to-time and will be returning to Stars on Ice for the first time since 2019. This will be his second Stars on Ice tour.
Making their Stars on Ice debut is three-time Canadian medalists Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud. Along with winning their second consecutive Canadian silver medalists, the team won bronze at the 2025 Four Continents Championships.
After kicking off the tour in Halifax, the show will perform in Ottawa, ON; Laval, QC, Oshawa, ON; Toronto, ON; St. Catharines, ON; London, ON, before heading west to perform in Saskatoon, SK; Edmonton, AB and Vancouver, BC.
For a list of cities and to purchase tickets, visit https://www.starsonice.ca/buy-tickets.
Like the U.S. tour, fans can also purchase post-show meet and greet passes, which allows attendees the opportunity to meet and chat with the Stars on Ice cast. Only a limited number of passes are available, with many meet and greets selling out prior to the show. To purchase meet and greet passes, click here.
The Pre-show Stargazer is returning for the 2025 Canadian tour. During the Pre-show Stargazer, fans also have the opportunity to enter the venue early to watch the skaters warm up on the ice, along with attend a group question and answer session with Messing and Nguyen. The warm-ups begin three-and-half hours prior to the show time, with the question and answer session approximately an hour-and-a-half prior to show time. The Pre-show Stargazer sessions will end approximately 1 hour prior to the show. Pre-show Stargazers can be purchased here.
For more information on the Stars on Ice Canada, visit https://www.starsonice.ca
