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www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 30, 2002 Q1 CYMK Q_NEW YEAR’Sresolutions Present, Past and Future Promises and Good Intentions Mark the New Year The holiday season is a time to reflect on the past year, learn from your accomplishments and unfortunate mishaps and set plans for the year ahead. We polled the past year’s gay entertainment newsmakers to get their opinion of 2002 and see what they have planned for 2003. Pepper Mashay – International Diva Biggest accomplishment in 2002: Touring the world. This year I performed in DJ DeMarko – Circuit DJ Panama, Switzerland, Tel Aviv, Ibiza, Japan, The Philippines, Singapore and, of Biggest accomplishment in 2002: Hitting number one on Billboard’s dance course, all throughout the U.S. It’s been a dream come true. chart with my first remix ever—Inaya Day’s “Can’t Stop Dancing” (Groovilious New Year’s Resolution: 2002 was a nonstop rollercoaster ride. In 2003, I Records). My second re-mix, Taylor Dayne’s “How Many” (Emerge Records) resolve to take a few moments every now and then and smell the glorious roses. climbed to number six! It’s been a great year. Plans for 2003: I’m excited about my next single, “I Can’t Stop”, and its video New Year’s Resolution: To remain true to myself and to my friends and that was directed by Chi Chi LaRue. I’m presently working on my new album family. that I hope to have finished by March, 2003. I think this upcoming year’s going Plans for 2003: To share and spread my love of dance music. to be even better than last! Georgia Ragsdale – Kevin Aviance – Actress/Comedienne Dance Diva Biggest accomplishment in 2002: Biggest accomplishment in 2002: Wrote/produced/acted in a comedy My number one Billboard dance feature film due out in 2003: WAVE single “Alive” – what a song! It has BABES “It’s Never too Late to Ride changed everything for me. the Big Ones.” It’s sorta a loose New Year’s Resolution: To take parody of the recent surf chick movie, better care of my body and to love BLUE CRUSH. myself more. New Year’s Resolution: Hmm, to DJ Tony Moran – Producer/Circuit DJ Plans for 2003: 2003 is going to be drop this good girl act I have going on Biggest accomplishment in 2002: Spinning the Hotlanta Party and mixing the the best year yet. I’m releasing a and take up something naughty like party’s official CD compilation, Party Groove: Hotlanta (Centaur Entertainment). new album called “Entity” in the drinking or smoking. Hell, give me New Year’s Resolution: To give as much as I can back to the community that spring, filming a new movie, perform- some drugs, dammit! has given me so much. ing across the world and last but not Plans for 2003: Promote the heck out Plans for 2003: Aside from traveling the circuit, I plan to concentrate on least, I have been working on a new of WAVE BABES and then begin work developing new talent through my record label, Emerge Records. I’m also look for 2003, and believe me, the on my next feature film, TRAILER writing new material for Luther Vandross, Celine Dion and Taylor Dayne. queens will gag! TRASH. Q2 • www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 30, 2002 CYMK Q_NEW YEAR’Sresolutions DJ Wendy Hunt – Circuit DJ Biggest accomplishment in 2002: Spinning Palm Springs White Party 2002. DJ Escape – Circuit DJ New Year’s Resolution: To stay positive, grateful and focused. Biggest accomplishment in 2002: Releasing my latest CD compilation, Party Plans for 2003: More traveling and DJing in faraway places. Also, I plan to Time 2003. continue working on my physical, emotional and spiritual self. New Year’s Resolution: To take life less seriously and have more fun. Plans for 2003: Starting my own independent record label with Guido (of the former DJing duo Razor & Guido). Colton Ford – Singer Nick Warren – DJ Biggest accomplishment in 2002: Recreating myself professionally. (A former Biggest accomplishment in 2002: To find a balance between being a good porn star, Colton’s first dance single, “Everything”, releases this January.) father to my 5 year old daughter and traveling the world as a DJ. New Years Resolution: I’ve given up on New Year’s resolutions as I make ‘em New Year’s Resolution: Stopping smoking again. and break ‘em all year long! Plans for 2003: Will be touring extensively to promote new global album, Plans for 2003: To savor the moments. making another way out west album and enjoying every momment of it. www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 30, 2002 Q3 CYMK Q_THEATERyearinreview Get Thee To a Theater 2002 Featured Some Fabulous Finds at Local Theaters By Mary Damiano Jon and Juan’s Wedding Jeffrey Arts & Entertainment Editor Interactive production about the More of a miss than a hit, If all the world’s a stage, South Florida’s wedding of a cute gay couple and their Paul Rudnick’s play did have little corner of the world is a particularly gay respective families. This was the second some bright moments as stage. This past year abounded with plenty production from Creative Arts Enterprises presented by the Public of gay plays and gay characters and even a and will be back in January on Saturday Theatre. gay reindeer. There was a live soap opera, nights at the Richmond Hotel in Miami Beach. lethal lesbians, men in drag Cabaret and some plays that were a The smash drag. But even when shows musical about failed, ultimately they freewheeling sex Dame Edna succeeded, because it’s not and gay love in easy to get up on stage, and the time of the Nazis was at least they tried.Here are Dame Edna superbly produced at the The saucy Aussie came to the Jackie some gay theater highlights Kravis Center in West Palm from 2002: Gleason Theatre and politely insulted her Beach. audience in her own inimitable way. A Chorus Line The Eight: As Paul, Ricky J. The Beginning Martinez’s heart-wrenching Reindeer One of the winners of the Public Theatre’s monologue about the Monologues One-Act Play Contest, local writer Dan moment his parents Who could forget Clancy’s touching and funny play showed discovered he was gay was openly gay reindeer Comet, what happens when a man wants to dance one of the singular played by the fabulously with his longtime partner at a family wedding. sensations in this classic funny Paul Tei, extoling the musical. 26th Street virtues of antler sex? The Blue Not as Cute as Picture Playhouse. Box Theatre at the Hollywood JD Cerna whipped through 38 different Playhouse. characters in his one-man show, which earned Bed, Boys and Photo by David Vance him a GLAAD nomination this year. GLCC Beyond Cast of ‘Nature of the Beach’ Falsettos A young gay man This musical about family Fifth of July moves to Chelsea and meets and the early days of AIDS The Public Theatre’s presentation of this a variety of gay men in this was given first-class, stylish Lanford Wilson classic featured a moving musical, the first production treatment by Rich Simone at performance by Steven A. Chambers. from Creative Arts the Shores. Enterprises, dedicated to Other Great Theater showcasing gay-themed Rent productions. La Boheme transferred to Moments of 2002 the slums of New York with The Vagina Monologues asked, Nature of the artistic types singing and “What would your vagina wear?” Beach dancing to a rock and roll The Sol Theatre: This edgy, gay owned and operated theater produced some Local playwright David score, this landmark musical was a crowd-pleaser when it of the best theater of the year, from the tense Sexton featured a bunch of Cat’s Paw to the frothy As You Like It. buff beach boys in his ode came to Broward Center for the Performing Arts. GableStage at the Carbonell Awards: to South Beach, presented at Artistic Director Joseph Adler swept the the Shores Performing Arts Victoria Place Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s local Theatre. theater awards, with his stirring productions Cast of Jeffrey A live soap opera done of A Lesson Before Dying and James Joyce’s in cliffhanger-style The Rocky The Dead. installments, will continue Horror Show The Lion King: Watching the with more episodes in 2003. spectacular parade of animals come down A sweet transvestite and And since it’s a parody of the aisles at the Broward Center for the a couple of white-bread soaps, even when it’s way Performing Arts lived up to every bit of hype virgins faced off in the stage over the top it’s right on that proceeded this production. musical on which the cult film target. ArtServe. was based. Shores Performing Arts Theatre Killing of Sister George This lesbian tale of a bitchy soap queen and her docile lover didn’t always work, but the White-Willis Theatre in Tamarac should still be commended for trying. Ruthless Doesn’t it just figure? The first time Wayne Legette stars opposite his wife, Stacy Schwartz, he plays her mother and spends the whole show in drag. This uproariously funny musical, sort of a cross between All About Eve and The Bad Seed, won Legette a Carbonell Award for his performance. Hollywood Playhouse. Cast of ‘The Eight Reindeer Monologues’ ‘Jon and Juan’s Wedding’ Q4 • www.ExpressGayNews.com • December 30, 2002 CYMK Q_FILMyearinreview Lights, Camera and Lots of Action From Fur Flying at a Film Fest to Gay Movies that Ran the Gamut, 2002 Proved to be an Interesting Year at the Movies By Mary Damiano Star Power Arts & Entertainment Editor Lights Up FLIFF It was the best of times, it was the worst The Fort Lauderdale International Film of times..