tenlittlebullets | Halloween + shiny!

elyse24601 and I spent Halloween dressed like refugees from the Battle of Hernani being total bohemians. We attempted to get last-minute cheap seats to a Molière piece at the Comédie Française, with the vague intention of hissing the classicists, but there were none left. Then we went to the Victor Hugo museum, looked at the new exhibit, got snapped at by an employee for tagging along with a (probably paid) tour, and got a DVD of the 1982 movie version of Les Mis. Then--in the slightly more modern tradition of broke-ass Parisian students--we had kebab for dinner, and headed off to the opera to try to get last-minute cheap tickets for La Bohème. Again, none left, not that we were expecting anything since it was (1) a Saturday night, (2) the day after the premiere, and (3) OMG Natalie Dessay as Musetta.

So we wandered off to the Café Procope for absinthe, got glared at by the bartender because we were the only ones there dressed weirdly, and went back to my apartment to watch the 1982 Les Mis over rum and cokes.

We didn't really get to do anything we planned to, but that's okay because we had a fabulous time anyway.

Also, I recently reorganized my bootleg list and realized I'd lost cast info for a bunch of rare shit. And where do you go to find cast info for rare shit, if not the tradelists of people who specialize in rare shit? This is how I found out that a soundboard of the original 1980 Palais des Sports production of Les Mis exists.

I gave up hope almost immediately, since people who specialize in rare shit are probably not going to be interested in my collection, and the particular person who has it is rather picky and elusive about trades. Then, in some massive stroke of celestial fortune, the same exact person contacted me out of the blue* asking to trade. Apparently a recording of Lausanne Les Mis was sufficienty rare and interesting.

So, long story short, I HAVE SHINY** and there will probably be a tl;dr LJ post coming up about the OFC production and the development of the show.

* I mean, not entirely out of the blue, I'd just reorganized my list and reopened it to trades, and requested some recordings on an LJ comm. But of ALL the people who could've followed up on that post via email, the ONLY person to do so was the one who had the 1980 soundboard. I feel like I need to buy Lady Luck a drink or something.

** Please do not comment asking for shiny, as this is a public post. My email's in my profile.