Miss Spain The Final Queen Of The Whole Universe!

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23 July 2012

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Miss Spain The Final Queen Of The Whole Universe!

In front of the largest audience Queen of the Whole Universe has ever played to in its 10 year history, Campbell Gordon a.k.a Mia Nosa Lotta Juarez des Catalonia a.k.a Miss Spain became this year’s Queen of the Whole Universe, bringing an end to the very queer beauty pageant as we know it...

One of the many major announcements that took place on Saturday night, MC’s Buffy and Bimbo revealed that the 10th and last show would make way for the next chapter in the life of Queen of the Whole Universe – a musical, to debut in 2014 or as early as 2013.

Buffy and Bimbo also announced that the pair will be on TVNZ’s Good Morning every Friday from as Agony Aunts Buffy and Bimbo. QWU, which broke its own Guinness World Record for the largest drag queen stage show (subject to adjudication), raised $40,000 for various HIV and AIDS related charities across New Zealand – and bringing the total figure raised since 2004 to $215,000 – making Queen of the Whole Universe the most successful LGBTT theatrical event to ever be held in New Zealand.

Such was the eager excitement of 2012’s crowd that the sound monitor at around 129 decibels at the close of the opening routine and just over 120 decibels for Miss Spain, Miss Transylvania and Buffy and Bimbo.

With an incredible performance that melded Lady Gaga into Ricky Marvin, MissSpain was the unanimous judge’s decision, head judge Alison Mau announced after a special retrospective celebrating the past 9 winners of the festival. Runner up was Miss Vatican City, Sister Mary Eve Anne Jellicle (played by David Franklin-Ross) while Miss Egypt (Alan Parata – 2010 QWU winner) and Miss Bali Hai (Mat Hunt) the finalists.

Other honours that were awarded on the evening saw Miss Bermuda Triangle, Candy Rhea-Pier (Seamas Gormley) win the “Miss Congeniality” award, with Miss Trinidad (Michelle Pillay) earning a special runner-up award. Boy 4, Johnny Gash (Mel Church) won Mr. Personality while Miss Portugal (Vic de Bettencor) beat out Miss Egypt and Miss Tartarus for Miss IBM Pins & Needles. The ceremony also honoured 2007’s Miss Morocco (Owen Anderson) with a “Directors Pick” award – given to a finalist from previous year.

Not normally one to give a comment regarding the results, QWU artistic director Jonathan Smith chimed in with Saturday’s proceedings: “I totally agree with the judge’s decision to award first place to Miss Spain. She contained all the elements I would be looking for if I was judging the show.
Fantastic set design with quick and effective scene changes, excellent lighting, fabulous choice of music, used the whole stage including the risers and apron, connected with her support dancers and audience, a devilish sense of humour, creative costumes and ultimately what would have clinched it for me, original choreography.”

“It's all these elements that make a winner. Although not a judging criteria we must acknowledge that the set design and building was accomplished by her father and costume design and creation by her mother. This truly illustrates what is meant by the QWU community. There was no doubt that Miss Spain was the crowd favourite from the applause she received during and after her performance.”

Queen of the Whole Universe would like to offer a special thank you to their sponsors, key stakeholders and volunteer cast and crew of over 100.

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