I think for adult group numbers it helps to have a coach who can come up with imaginative choreo that lets each adult shine, or at least participate. I've mentioned that I've been 'Death" in a zombie number several times. The coach sets up choreo that even Basic 3 or 4 can do (turns, gestures, bending, some swizzles) for the group, then 'zombies' who are skilled skaters go out and do a jump or a spin and I (Death) would either chase them back into the horde, or 'control' the horde with a hockey stick.
It's the coach that makes this number through preparation and originality. She even sent out DVD's to the skaters so they could practice the turns gestures, bends and so on at home to the music. This means practice is spent doing the routine as a group rather than learning the routine.
I saw a group adult number that was very much an adult swizzle train number recently. The lack of preparation
(DVD) on the coach's part meant that people's gestures weren't coordinated to the music. I think he had recycled it from a tot's number.
. Two of the adult skaters did a duet number and were apparently mocked and made fun of by several of the kid skaters. There was also supposedly some difficulty in their being allowed on the ice during at least one of the rehearsals (for which they traveled several hours).
And it's always the kid skaters who can barely get six inches above the ice who do the mocking, isn't it?
And if I'd paid a fee to be on the ice for rehearsal, I'd be mad enough to say something.
I don't blame adults for quitting the club.