Wonderful report, Janina!
Okay, so I am going to add my second part now even if some of the things will be the same...

After the Zamboni-man resurfaced the ice one of the *super-important chanteur* desperately tried to get the crwod going, but somehow he failed :b
During the break we hoped to see Johnny skate "My Way" in the second part, but the first skaters after the break were Abitbol&Bernadis. Stphane encouraged the crowd to cheer and was a great entertainer. They were skating to music I somehow knew, but couldn't remember the title. I asked Janina and she was like :eek "You don't know it? The Mision!" :rollin Everyone loved their program and it was one os the best performances of the evening. We were all very impressed. Grushina&Goncharov skates their second number toa spanish-like rythym, while some of the *super important chanteur* was singing along. Not to forget that they had to skate around some stuffed animal that was a dolphin if I remember right... You could say that everyone wished for this animal to swim away from the ice, because this was dangerous of course. Anyway, Surya also managed to skate around the gifts and just Viktor Petrenko saw these things lying around and took them away - he was like the flower-girl of the evening :lol After his number he helped Irina Grigorian to carry all her stuff to the ice. She showed some of her amazing tricks with all her hoolas and the crowd was of course "whooohaaa!" the whole time. After her it was Elene Sokolova's turn again. When the russian acrobats came back with their swan-like costumes everybody was already freaking out and laughing around. They used "The Swan" :swan and delivered again some risky and incredible lifts. Right at that moment we also thought of Johnny and I was like "Didn't Johnny skate before the russians in the first part?" So it seeemd likely he wuldn't do a second number. Netx was Irina Slutskaya with the english version of "Tu es foutu" which was well received from the audience - too abd she didn't use teh french one. But she was again very entertaining and lovely. Brian Joubert's second number - and I was getting a little bit :( about Johnny - was to "Tant qu'on reve encore". The women next tome were humming along to the song. After his skate the crowd managed to do a 3-round LaOla which was really nice!!! Next was Zhenya with a program I couldn't remember at all at first, but Janina said it was something from Pavarotti when we drove home. The last couple was Anissina&Peizerat again skating around with a green tissue. Again a very innovative and lovely program.
Untill then we really enjoyed the show, but too bad Johnny just showed one program - of course one can't get enough of his skating, but the part that was to follow was even better!!!
The Finale was just hilarious! Their 20s - 30s theme just got the crowd and they were plaing some scenes on the ice. Plushenko flirting with Sarah and Stpahne kissing along Irina's arm, Brian Joubert playing around with 6 girls -obviuosly feeling really well :b and then Johnny the gangster. he looked really cool with his black and white costume and white gloves (it was the costume he also wore at some practices at the Olympics with the cyrillic "Johnny" on his arm) and his flashlight. Obviously he was someone like a thief and he was just awesome. All of a sudden, like magic, Maxim was there and shot Johnny! HE SHOT him and we were like NOOOO!!! :rollin The most funny part was to come after Tatiana came on the ice to :9 about the dead Johnny. She was skating around with Maxim and Johnny was like trying to take something from the other side - but he was dead! We were laughing so hard and I was hoping for a showdown like Johnny's revenge ;) But Tatiana did it - YAY Tatiana - 8o
The whole situation was too funny and we really enjoyed it! So after the police took Tatiana awayand the others skated their small numbers (Viktor Petrenko to "My Way" and I just hoped Johnny would come to the ice to start skating to it LOL) the skaters went together in pairs and Johny took Irina's hand. They looked soooo adoreable together! They were standing in our corner and Janina and I were laughing again the whole time when Johnny was playing around with her. Crossing his arms, checking the choreography again and showing some funny and cute expressions :kiss He's such a sweety. The Finale was amazing and if anyone knows what music this exactly was please let me know - I am searching for this music since last year LOL :angel5
After teh show we still waited some time, because we thought that maybe the skaters would come out, but later we realized that they probably left the arena as soon as they finished to drive to Madrid. But all in all the show was just amazing and it was wonderful to see Johnny skate again!

These days were all in all really cool and I enjoyed meeting you Janina! It was really nice to take you around Paris and I hope your pics turned out well :)
Vicky


*Send my love to the angels* - Johnny