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shuufey replied to your post "So, it is now three days into Pride, and the...”

In episode 100 of the Desolation Radio podcast, Michael says he spent some time at La Scala in the 80s.

Oh my GOD, thank you so much for this! Amazing. So first of all, here's the link for anyone who wants to listen to the podcast (and the relevant bit starts at the 1:14:00 mark).

But...wow. I had wondered if there was any possibility that Michael had gone to La Scala in the '80s, because he was a teenager (though he did turn 20 in 1989), and if that could be how he developed the head canon for Aziraphale and Crowley. There is still a world of difference, however, between going to see De Niro films (as Michael mentions in the podcast) and going to the "all nighters" (a.k.a., all-night gay film marathons/orgies). And we could still say that Michael just knew about the all-nighters by reputation/hearing about them from others, but now that we know Michael actually went to La Scala, it does not seem at all a far leap to think he went to those all-nighters.

And perhaps he only hoped for a boyfriend as beautiful as David to share those nights with--someone special, someone whose eyes he could look into--and so what a lovely thought to imagine that Michael's dream might have finally come true all these years later...