Star Struck

There was an electricity backstage before yesterday's performance. It may have been a Sunday, but the evil forces of a matinee are no match for the news that there is a star in the audience. And I don't use the term lightly. Our circus had the good fortune to be graced by the presence of an Academy Award winning actress! The lovely and talented French starlet Juliette Binoche!


This was one of the rare instances where a French celebrity came to see the show and I actually knew who they were. You may recognize her from such films as Chocolat, Paris je t'aime, The English Patient and the Three Colors trilogy.

Sadly, I didn't actually see her. I was told she was in row five, which is where I kept looking, while she was actually in row eight. But I am told she stood up for the curtain call. I know it seems silly, but I really would have liked to actually see her.

In every film I've seen her in, she always strikes me as such a lovely, strong woman with such great presence. I wonder what she thought of the show? And of course the vain streak in me really wonders what she thought of my number. I guess I'll never know...