April was such a nice month and it’s usu­al­ly a per­fect moment for a big spring clean­ing. Going through my bath­room clos­et, I was very pleas­ant­ly sur­prised when I saw a Pierre Cardin bag stuck in the back of it. I was less pleas­ant­ly sur­prised when I real­ized the bag con­tained the Tris­tan & Yseult fra­grances that were relased when that infa­mous musi­cal opened in Paris. That was a press gift of course. I hate to throw away stuff that is in mint con­di­tion so I decid­ed to give them to my moth­er who is going to Viet­nam this sum­mer. I’m sure my cousins are going to love these fra­grances, but if they don’t, they can always use them as a mos­qui­to repel­lent. I am so proud to help poor­er coun­tries by send­ing them Pierre Cardin stuff.

On April 29, Bom­bay Dreams opened on Broad­way. No, I wasn’t there. I couldn’t afford a trip to New York. Instead, I went to Beaubourg to watch a cou­ple of Bol­ly­wood musi­cals taht were screened at their great Indi­an film ret­ro­spec­tive. At €5 a seat, I could afford that. It must be great to be a young lover when you live in India. Foun­tains just burst out from nowhere when you sing ‘I love you’. Hun­dreds of dancers are always here to back you up. And those saris ! And that Atti­tude, with a cap­i­tal A ! One of the films, called Kab­hi Khushi Kab­hi Gham (to be released in France next June) fea­tures a won­der­ful num­ber on « It’s rain­ing men ». One beau­ty tip from Bol­ly­wood : when you have long hair, you should always man­age to have an elec­tric fan right behind you so you hair can flow sex­i­ly in the fake wind. That’s what I call Attitude.

In April, I also went to see Crea­tures anoth­er time to see a cast replace­ment. Olivi­er Rui­dav­et was play­ing the Dev­il and he was excel­lent. He will play the part again on May 8th for those of you who would like to know. Crea­tures is a musi­cal about the mon­sters, witch­es, dev­ils and oth­er scary enti­ties that haunt a young man’s night­mares. It made me think : what if I make a musi­cal about my night­mares ? So I list­ed the peo­ple (or should I say ‘crea­tures’) that have haunt­ed my nights late­ly. For my defence, I cur­rent­ly have hay fever and take med­ica­tion against aller­gies. It gives me weird dreams. Any­way, here is the list :
— Char­l­ize Theron in Mon­ster (fas­ci­nat­ing)
— Lau­ra Pres­gur­vic (from the French musi­cal ver­sion of Gone with the wind, this young lady real­ly scares me off !)
— A lit­tle bitch from my aer­o­bics class (she thinks she’s the best but she only makes big moves, some day I have to hit her)
— Madon­na (I love her, but I REALLY need tick­ets for her next concert)
— Aileen Quinn, the lit­tle girl who played Annie in the film ver­sion (don’t ask me why I dreamed of her, I have no idea, but… isn’t she scary ?)
— last but not least, a roller-blad­ing Mona Lisa (it’s real­ly beyond my control)

So a few ques­tions popped in my head :
— Should I see my ther­a­pist more than once a week ?
— How can all the crea­tures fit into one musical ?
— Can I get Madon­na and Lau­ra Pres­gur­vic to play their own roles ?

Well, it’s too to dif­fi­cult to deal with my crea­tures. Instead, I’ll go shop­ping. I need an elec­tric fan.