MINNEAPOLIS – A Disney ice skater portraying Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” froze during a aerial routine, apparently in a seizure, and fell to the ice. Anastasia Olson, 31, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. Olson was in a lift routine, balanced on the raised arms of the skater playing the Beast. This was about 40 minutes into an 11 a.m. show. Olson was with the traveling cast of the show. Although interrupted, the show resumed with a back-up skater playing Belle.
Paired sequence. From an earlier “Beauty and Beast” performance.
