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theatre artist Jade Esteban Estrada. Photo by MAYRA
ALEXANDRA<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H1>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">January 31, 2010
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">By COLIN
MURPHY<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">SENIOR
WRITER<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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online:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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</SPAN><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 26pt">S</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">t.
Louis</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> audiences are no
strangers to the many talents of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jade
Esteban Estrada</B>. Over the past decade the out and proud showman has
delighted us at Pridefest and engaged us with his <I>ICONS </I>(The Lesbian and
Gay History of the World) trilogy. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
Estrada wears many creative hats—he is actor, dancer, singer, director,
playwright, author, teacher and comedian. Indeed, with a love for queer history
and an even greater love for his craft, Estrada is the modern American
Renaissance man. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> On
Feb. 16, the "Master Entertainer" brings his latest offering, <I>A Lullaby for
Ryan: The History of HIV/AIDS in America </I>to The Urban Eats Café (3301
Meramec). The musical comedy introduces us to Boobs (a.k.a. the Bubonic Plague);
Jimmy, a real estate agent in New York City in 1981; Rock Hudson; Miss Protease
Inhibitor 1996; Bill McPhil, a 53-year-old HIV-positive cowboy and LaShonda, an
African-American mother of three in Chicago’s Southside as they chronicle the
last quarter-century of the AIDS epidemic in the United States with stories of
courage, strength and human triumph. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
Vital VOICE</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> magazine recently
caught up with Estrada via telephone to discuss <I>Lullaby</I>, its many
characters, and why he was compelled to pen a comedy about
HIV/AIDS.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Colin Murphy: So you
are returning to St. Louis with <I>A Lullaby for
Ryan</I>-<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Jade Esteban Estrada:
I am and I’m really excited about it. I love the show, I really love the show.
It’s a musical comedy and it’s a lot of laughs. And a lot of people wonder at
first how can a show about HIV/AIDS be funny—they’ve got to see the show. A lot
of people who have survived this epidemic have tapped into the resource of
laughter. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Estrada plays Bill
McPhil singing “Bareback.com.” Photo by JASON
FIENHOLD-HAASIS.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: Is this a show
that you can do now but not necessarily a decade or so ago—pre-protease
inhibitor?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: Yes—that’s a good
point. Before 1996 or even 1998 I don’t think I could have come out and done
this. Because when the protease inhibitors came out it was a huge shift in the
experience of what HIV/AIDS has been not just for our country but the world. So
that was almost a ray of hope that we hadn’t had in the past. And it’s certainly
changed everything—it really changed everything. It changed it [the disease]
from being, as some people say, a death sentence to being a chronic illness.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: How many
characters to you play in this piece?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: Seven
characters.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: And how do you
transition from character to character?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: How I transition
from character to character—did you see any of the <I>Icons</I>
series?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><IMG SRC="cid:X.MA3.1265014569@aol.com" border=0 width=270 height=360 v:shapes="_x0000_i1029" DATASIZE="12412" ID="MA3.1265014569" ><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Estrada plays “Miss
Protease Inhibitor 1996.” Photo by JASON FIENHOLD-HAASIS.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: Yes, I saw part
one.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: I haven’t changed
necessarily the format of how I do things. I stay on stage the whole time and I
slowly transform or sometimes swiftly transform from one character to the next.
It’s all seamless. Since I last saw you, I’ve gotten much better at this
format.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So I really create
<I>Lullaby</I> and [am] talking about something that has been, at least for an
older generation, very taboo—if not for everybody. I felt almost like my
<I>Icons</I> was preparation for this kind of dialogue in this format.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: Yeah—I was going
to ask if <I>Lullaby</I> was born from <I>Icons</I>?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: No it’s not. It
was just something that I felt I wanted to write about and I hadn’t seen anyone
take that comedic approach to it. Because that’s what I do—my 9 to 5 now is I’m
a standup comic—and I use humor in every aspect of my professional life. I had
been doing so many HIV/AIDS organization benefits and events, that it seemed
like a very natural evolution for me to start to discuss the face of HIV/AIDS
today in the 21<SUP>st</SUP> century. I debuted this in December 2007—it was
commissioned by Diamond Foundation of Nebraska. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><IMG SRC="cid:X.MA4.1265014569@aol.com" border=0 width=215 height=553 v:shapes="_x0000_i1027" DATASIZE="24738" ID="MA4.1265014569" ><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Estrada plays “Boobs”
aka the Bubonic Plague. Photo by MAYRA ALEXANDRA.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: Do you have a
favorite character you would like to talk about?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: I absolutely love
the Bubonic Plague—I call her Boobs—and she’s this very loud, annoyed Jewish
woman from the 1960s. She carries a pet rat named Pookie. She’s just so fabulous
and the audience really, really loves her. And what I love about this character
is I have the opportunity to give an infection/disease a voice. Everybody talks
about how infections and diseases are horrible things but they don’t have a
voice to talk about what they want and need. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">There’s this one
moment in the show where I really connect with everybody and she’s talking to
them and they’re doing "kawfee talk" and they’re talking about this and that and
she says, <I>"You know—I like you. I want to tell you a little secret about us
diseases. I probably shouldn’t even be telling you this, but there are only two
things that us diseases want to do when we get into the human body: survive and
multiply. Repeat after me: survive and multiply." <o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">And usually everybody
says it with her and she says, "<I>I said repeat, but whatevah." </I>And she’s
making them laugh, but she’s also having a very sobering moment with them—that
diseases are also organisms—they are living things that just have a mission. I
enjoy that character very much because I can see in the faces of the audience
that they have never had a conversation with a disease before. It’s a lot of fun
to portray her because of who she represents. I mean the Bubonic Plague is this
big, scary thing that happened and to be able to see her in a comedic light and
just trying to do what she does—spread her diseases—being kind of clumsy and
crazy and eccentric—it kind of gives a face to a big scary monster.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: You also play Rock
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Hudson</st1:City></st1:place>…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: I do and it’s one
of my favorite roles of all time. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: I was doing the
math and its 25-year’s since his passing. He was a tragic figure. Do you think
that people are viewing him in different light 25-years out from his death?
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: He was the person
to give AIDS a human face and that was a very important connection for the
public who had only been hearing these crazy stories in the newspapers and on
television and these rumors from other people. It didn’t have a human impact
until someone as famous as Rock represented what he did at the time that he did
it. He was the biggest star in the world and for him to have this experience was
quite shocking at the time. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">…When I actually do
him at the press conference in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Paris</st1:City></st1:place> when he has his interview with the press
and sings his song; it’s like reliving that moment and I think it brings home
the point that it was a turning point. That press conference was a turning point
in peoples understanding of what was happening. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><IMG SRC="cid:X.MA5.1265014569@aol.com" border=0 width=420 height=315 v:shapes="_x0000_i1028" DATASIZE="10702" ID="MA5.1265014569" ><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Estrada plays Rock
Hudson. Photo by JASON FIENHOLD-HAASIS.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: <I>A Lullaby for
Ryan</I> is obviously a nod to Ryan White—does his character appear in the
show?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: No he does
not—not as a character. The show is named after him and he’s mentioned once in
the very beginning of the song and then there’s no more mention of him. A lot of
people say <I>Ryan White’s not in the show—why is that</I>? And my answer to
that is, I only have 65-75 minutes with my audience. My audience is a smart
crowd—I’ve learned who they are over the past decade—and my answer to that is
usually, <EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">if you don’t know who Ryan White
is you need to Google it</SPAN></EM>. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CM: Last question—you
are also conducting an Acting Master Class while here in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:place></st1:City>—could you talk
about that?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">JEE: Before I’m a
person, I believe myself to be an actor. I love my craft very, very much. And I
have been drawn to directing and teaching acting technique for years… Recently I
have been doing my Acting Master Classes—I call it “Acting Master Class 2.0”—in
other cities across the country. It’s such a wonderful opportunity for me to
connect with my people—and by my people, I mean other actors. I’ve been doing
solo theatre for a long time so one thing I do know is how to survive on stage
and survive well and create and build characters. I really enjoy sharing that
with the next generation of actors who will come after me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Showtime for "A
Lullaby for Ryan: The History of HIV/AIDS in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>" is 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $15
at the door. Advance tickets are $12 each will be available beginning Jan. 13,
at <A href="http://thevitalvoice.com/www.urbaneatscafe.com/tickets">www.urbaneatscafe.com/tickets</A>
and can be purchased with any credit card or PayPal. A portion of all food and
beverage sales will also be donated to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">GLBT</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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