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COVER STORY First Night 2000: A sampler Potholes in the sky     Tony V. is proud to follow in the pawsteps of "Cats" at the Wang Theatre. (Globe File Photo/Tom Landers) MORE INFORMATION Sat. 9:30-10:15 p.m., 10:45-11:30 p.m. Wang Theatre "Y2K? Why Not Too Kay?" Tony V. has been playing Boston's comedy clubs since the early '80s, but he's never played the Wang Center before. He will on Saturday night, and he's going to dress for the occasion. "I'm thinking about wearing a suit," he boasts. "I usually wear whatever I wake up in." Tony and fellow stand-up Dwayne Perkins each play two shows. This will be Tony's fourth First Night; his first was when stand-up made its festival debut at Suffolk University's C. Walsh Theatre. Tony has worked up some new material on the Y2K threat especially for the occasion. "If the worst thing happened, and we all went back to being gorillas, we'd be better off," he says. Ever since he was a kid, he's had his own vision for the new millennium: "I think nothing will change, except you'll wake up on Jan. 1, and we'll all have flying cars. But you know, even that somebody would ruin. Someone would find a way to put potholes in the sky." He'll also take on the Big Dig. "The people that designed it have no intention to connect anything to anything else," he suggests. "People in 2070 are going to be walking around saying, 'Where does this go?'" Forty-five minutes onstage, and Tony says his act has got to be squeaky clean. Not that he traffics in the dirty comedy of the Andrew Dice Clay variety. Irony is more his stock in trade. `I'm not offensive unless I need to be," Tony swears. As for the ambitious venue - the Wang Center is about five times the size of the Walsh and seats many times more than the Hong Kong in Cambridge, where he just played his 15th annual Christmas Show - Tony couldn't be more excited. "I look forward to performing on a stage that once held 'Cats,'" he says dryly. "How do I top that?" - Cate McQuaid Previous page | Next page

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