La Cieca about to try one of those 21st century activities all the kids are talking about, and no, it’s not chugging Nyquil. Your doyenne is going to use crowdsourcing (that is, put you cher public to work as reporters) to cover the Met’s Opening Night Gala on September 22, 2008 at 6:30 pm.  Since this once-in-a-lifetime edition of the Fleming Follies is being rolled out as a multmedia visual, auditory and olfactory experience, it is only fitting that parterre.com should cover it in depth, not to mention glory.

So here’s the plan.  We definitely need someone in the theater for the gala beginning at 6:30 equipped with a text-enabled phone or Blackberry-ish device to send us breaking news.  (Volunteers?)  Further,  La Cieca would like to hear from at least a couple of you queens who will be watching the HD Theater Simulcast to fill us in on details of the couture frocks and the backstage mishegas. The spectacle will also be transmitted via Sirius, during which La Cieca promises one of her good old-fashioned home-cooked live chats.

Have you, member of the cher public, a special angle or point of view you’d like to express on this night of nights? Email La Cieca with the idea for your story; the writer of the best pitch selected and published will win a coveted amazon.com gift card!