L'Amour est dans le Boitier

Early last week I got a text from my friend Cécile, of Mortelle Soirée fame: 

Hellooo, un copain comédien m'a offert des places pour aller voir jeudi soir, "l'amour est dans le boitier"au zèbre de Belleville - dites moi si ça vous intéresse! Hello, an actor friend gave me tickets to see "L'Amour est dans le Boitier" (Love is in the Remote Control - for lack of a better translation) at the Zebre de Belleville - let me know if you guys wanna go!

How could I say no to a show that sounds like my favorite TV show in the whole wide world??? Copain was busy working, so I asked a friend who lives near the Zèbre theatre to come with me. Her first response was - what a cheesy name for a show - and she's right - but by the end of the night, we were both dancing along with the Wifi and ADSL fairies, having memorized the choreography about five minutes into the show.

Basically, this is a "choose your own adventure" romantic comedy - the audience sits at tables, cabaret-style, and has to decide at various intervals, how the story should go. Each table gets a remote control and one song + choreography performed by fairies to make their decision. Then the totals are added up and projected onto a large screen onstage. The actors are hilarious, the Wifi fairies are my absolute favorite, and they have a bar open before the show starts - plus, they encourage choreography participation ...um, what's not to love?

If you have a free night and are looking for something fun to do, go and see l'Amour est dans le Boitier - I got free tickets, but I can tell you now that I would have paid to see this show. So funny!!! (also, a great way to meet people since you have to talk to the other people at your table to make a choice).

I texted Cécile back after the show:

Trop fort! On a adoré! (So good! We loved it!)

She replied:

J'espère que vous avez fait la choré:-)) (I hope you did the choreography:-))

She knows me well that Cécile...

Alors, C'était Comment Samedi???

Saturday night was super chouette - just as I had predicted!

Even though it was my second time seeing How to Become a Parisian in One Hour, Olivier Giraud did not disappoint!  I was a tad worried about taking three full-blown Ricains (Amuuuu-ricains!) to see a show that pokes A LOT of fun at the Anglophones and the Americans in particular. But they took it all in stride and even admitted to making every single one of the touristy faux pas Olivier demonstrated.

Hilarity - pure hilarity.

Copain (the full-blown Frenchie), having just returned from a 6-month séjour in the US of A, was loving the entire display...and he fully admitted to wanting the cadeau (present) that Olivier Giraud promised the last volunteer of the night - just as Monsieur Giraud predicted of all of the Frenchies in the room!

Something free?! Oh oui! 

Les Bonnes Soeurs was next up on the agenda - a quaint little restaurant on Rue du Pas de la Mule. Service in English for my Ricains - cosy ambiance - my only critique would be having a menu that is too varied: lamb or wok? hamburger or magret de canard? It made choosing rough times! However, everyone was très content with their dish and I have only amazing things to say about the moelleux au chocolat that I got for dessert!

Alors, samedi- c'était très chouette - mais oui :-)

Ce Soir...

On the schedule for ce soir:

Olivier Giraud's How to Become Parisian In One Hour

followed by dinner at Les Bonnes Soeurs

Chouette non??