Webshow 9 Part 2 ..... So You Think, Love Rollercoaster and Party!

WAIT!!!
This is Part Two .....
Scroll down for Part One!!!

Webshow 9 Part 1.....Tea, Maria and Swearing!

Here is Webshow 9 Part One.....
I have a love/hate relationship with that Maria show!!!
And Tell you my upcoming guests!!!

Webshow 8 Part 2....Maria Thingie and Big Announcement!!!

Heya!!! Scroll down to see part one and then come back up and........Here is number two.... there is a bit of announcement!!! WOO HOOOOO!!!

Sharron's Webshow 8..Doras, Dance and Gay Dogs Part One!!

Here we go peeps.... it has been a while but I think I have got just the right lighting to make me feel thin......and watch out for the next two days.... new blog with big announcement to follow!!!!!

That effin Maria show!!

Holy Crap.....
I just cannot contain myself......
I watched that effing Maria show again and it just gobsmacks me......
I was so excited about it.... and now???
It could be such a wonderful feature for new Canadian talent and a great stepping stone for these young girls but.....holy poop.... (I am saying poop for my Auntie Pat who has asked me to stop swearing on my blog.....so let us go clean this week.... I wonder if I can really make myself clear without good swear words....we shall see....)
The tech on the show is just sketch..... the lights are dark.... the mikes don't work....isn't this the nations TV network.... shouldn't they know better?
That host........holy f.......crappadoodies.......John Barrowman is a mean, self important ass who manages to work in a credit about himself every second line ....before he cuts below the belt ....I mean... really below the belt....you can see these young girls eyes fill with tears as he tears into them with his 'helpful' comments.....
He made that lovely comment about one girls' performance being only good enough for dinner theatre in Niagara Falls....some people who are quite excellent do work doing that very thing in that very place.....he meant it as a slag, of course, and it is a lovely way for someone from another country to show how much he respects ours.
There is no level playing field.... some girls were made to dance and sing with dancers...being lifted onto shoulders while they hit their high notes...... while others get to stride around the stage singing songs that are perfect for them into a wind machines.....wind machines???? .....while still others sing totally out of their comfort zones in keys that are bad for their voices.....again....how can we judge if they aren't being given all the same challenges and benefits????
I just don't think it is news worthy to be negative and cutting to people on TV in reality shows.... and I love me a reality show.... no doubt.....but these judges are just mean.
I do hope that this show brings people to the theatre who don't usually come....but ug..... it makes me mad and a bit sad to watch it.......

I am alive.... and I have a budda belly!

THE DORAS!!!!!!

Well, it is all over but the crying folks.... I have been sleeping for the last three days and eating whatever is within two feet of my mouth so I refuse to video tape myself!!!
So many things!!!
The Doras went well!! I promised myself that I would try and have a good time.... and I actually managed it.....how the eff did that happen? Well, I think I have figured it all out! I wrapped myself in people who are awesome..... Kat KcEwen from Fashion Crimes.... wait... I have a pic of her and I......

She is the best!!!! Anyhow, she was my stylist and FC rep for the night... and she could not have been more awesome and she was right beside me all night!!!!
I also had Bill, my oft-mentioned hair guru with me... he is the funniest and the awesomeist.....he gave me 10... count' em... 10 hair dos in 2 and 1/2 hours.... GOD!!!!
And Thom was back there with me...... I cannot do anything without Thom.....he was awesome in the show, too!!!
He was my foil, my duet partner, my backstage support.....it was so wonderful to look across the stage and see that I am singing a duet with Thom on the Winter Garden Stage!!!!
He wrote me three cards before, during and after..... what the eff!!!
He is just the awesomest....
And old friend and dresser Rafe Mcpherson at the IA Dresser helm......also Briane Nasimok.... writer and general go to guy for the night....he made sure that I made it onstage when I needed to....
With all that fabulosity backstage ...... 10 costume changes and 10 hair changes.... I only had time to actually be in the moment.... imagine that luxury......
But at the beginning of it all we went up 15 minutes late.... I was ready for about a half hour and the more I waited to more "crap -my-pants" I got.... I was starting in the audience and I just stood there with a stage manager waiting............ UG!!
When I finally ran into the house, people, it was like running into your worst nightmare.... there was nowhere to look... NOWHERE I tell you!!!
Everywhere was a media person, a director, producer....oh lord... the list goes on.... but the opening... which I wrote and memeorized...5 pages... great idea Sharron.... went well... I ad libbed it a bit and heard the laughter of the crowd....
And I looked into the eyes if my adorable husband sitting in the second row.... he was beaming,.....he was right where I needed him to be!!!!!
Of course, there were a few people who just crossed their arms and refused to be sullied by the kitch of what I do.... but there were a whole bunch of other people who seemed to enjoy themselves....
Sky in his big glasses, Patricia with her big smile, Albert with his big laugh and Mary Francis clapping and smiling like she could will me to do well.... god Bless them all!!!
The best part of the night......when I was leaving the house during 'Last Dance' didn't Brent Carver jump up and start dancing with me!!!!
I almost peed.... I got drunk in about 5 minutes after!!!
Here is what the fabulously tasteful Jon Kaplan.... thanks be to him..... had to say about it all.....

The stage at the Winter Garden Theatre may have been full of sunflowers for the 29th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards -- even the Dora Award statue held a bloom -- but there was nothing even remotely wall-flowerish about the evening's host, the effervescent Sharron Matthews.

Flirting with the audience or berating a viewer, Matthews (changing her dress some eight times) hosted a three-hour evening that moved briskly along with dozens of awards presentations.

She put her pipes to great effect over the course of the evening with the help of guest Thom Allison, sometimes thrilling us and sometimes lulling us, singing a series of tunes that included works by Canadians Joey Miller and Brad Fraser, Leslie Arden and David Warrack.

Named for theatre pioneer Dora Mavor Moore and sponsored by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA), the awards honour excellence in the theatre and dance communities.

In the independent theatre division, three companies picked up six of the nine awards. Modern Times Stage Company won for the outstanding production award and director Soheil Parsa was also honoured; Aluna Theatre's Madre received Doras for set design (Trevor Schwellnus) and sound design/composition (Thomas Ryder Payne).

The newcomer to the block was Theatre Jones Roy's Pyaasa, which won writer/actor Anusree Roy prizes for new play and performer. If you missed the short run of this solo show about untouchables in India, you can catch it at Theatre Passe Muraille next season. Filled with emotion, Roy thanked the jurors and audience, saying they've "made an immigrant's dream come true."

In the general division, Canadian Stage's Fire picked up five awards, including outstanding production of a musical, musical direction (Ted Dykstra), principal male performer in a musical (Dykstra again), principal female performer in a musical (Nicole Underhay) and direction of a musical (James MacDonald).

The company also took outstanding play production (Colleen Murphy's The December Man) and outstanding new play (Judith Thompson's The Palace Of The End).

Soulpepper picked up two acting awards (Joseph Ziegler and Stuart Hughes in The Time Of Your Life) and one directing award (Alisa Palmer for Top Girls).

Outstanding new musical went to Jim LeFrancois and David Oye for devising Buddies in Bad Times's Arthouse Cabaret.

Peggy Baker took two of the four awards in the dance division for Portal, new choreography and performance.

Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences went home with both the statues in the theatre for young audiences division -- outstanding production (Love You Forever...And More Munsch) and performance (Kyle Cameron in Green Thumb Theatre's Cranked).

In the opera division, the Canadian Opera Company's From The House Of The Dead took the production award, while Measha Brueggergosman copped the performance award for her work in Opera Atelier's Idomeneo.

A quartet of other presentations were scattered through the evening. Designer Michelle Ramsay got the Pauline McGibbon Award and also picked up a Dora for her lighting of Theatre Rusticle's April 14, 1912.

The Actors' Fund of Canada, celebrating its 50th birthday, received an honorary Dora.

Director, teacher and and translator John Van Burek -- the founder of Theatre Francais de Toronto and current head of Pleiades Theatre -- received the Silver Ticket Award for his long-term work in the community.

The third annual Audience Choice Award went to Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story On Stage.

One of the night's best lines? Dykstra, accepting the Dora for his performance in Fire, said he'd received the identical honour 20 years ago, in 1988, for the same show.

"Proves that you should stick to what you know...and see you all in 2028."

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Now, I am in Niagara.... watching the National Post everyday where I have been asked to be the Diarist ....it is super exciting to be asked!!!!
Check it out!!!!
Start with the one below and it can lead you to others!!!

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=622799

Wowie.... media whore!!!!
That is me..... there is so much going on and I am excited about all the future that is before me.... who know what it will be!!!???
But I am gonna make a big announcement on here this week after I do a bit of a flush......
Oh... check out this pic from the party after.... All three of us are tipsy.... my eyelash is coming off...ghetto fabulous..... my girls Mary Francis and Patricia!!!

Oh... what a night.... what a year!!!
What will be next????
oh ya... look at my hubby in a tux!

I am goin' all old school!!!

Hey All!!!
I can't do the webshow while I am in TO but I wanted to write on my blog...
as I have some free time between the 400 times I am going over my opening for the Doras....
And I am going over it 400 times....
I am sitting and watching Apollo 13....
I didn't even really dig it the first time but it is funny what one will do when it is too hot to power walk outside and one can't get the fortitude up to put my ass in downtown Toronto to the gym.....
In the midst of Pride....
It will be a mess down there and any other time I would be in it baby!!!
But I am trying to conserve my voice and my energy and I cannot seem to restrain myself during Pride.......
I would be all over it!
I went to see my friends Patty and Patti do their cabaret at the Old Mill last night... it was a part of the Toronto Jazz Festival....
What a lovely evening that was...the singing... the story telling...the paino playin'...
The waiter was mean as all get out!
I was sitting with Sara Farb and Jeff Moulton... we were not inclined to spend alot of the food or the drink... my glass of wine was 12 bucks and I made it last all night...that waiter was not happy.... ass...
But the show was worth the waiter's 'tude.....
And the stars there... well
Theresa Pavlinek, Meesha Burgergosenn... I know that is spelled wrong... Rex Harrington... Jean Stillwell...
What a star studded evening....
Congrats Patty and Patti!!!
I actually saw Jean Stillwell earlier that day at Classic 96 where I was a guest on her radio show... I love the radio.. it is fun and you can look like shit... not that any of us did...
Jean is doing an Eric Idle project at the effing Hollywood Bowl...
wowie.
And before that I was at Proud FM... with Ken and Mary Jo... that was also alot of fun....
The segment was called
"What's For Breakfast?"
Which made me nervous...
Those interviews were 30 minutes apart and I had to get up at 6:45am... early .....
Theatre and radio are very glamorous ....
But fun....
Then off to the fabu Fashion Crimes where my friend Kat and I went over the 9 outfits with bling that I will be wearing at the Doras....
YUP.....
9 OUTFITS!!!
We are doing this in style....
I think the show is going to be great ....I have the best mix of excitement and terror....
It is the only way to keep yourself honest!
I cannot wait to see all the peeps.. Avery, Thom, Bill my hair guru.... and many others....
And Patty and I are up for the same award....
Oh there is so much to think about!!!
I am up for a fricken' award!!!
Wowie.. what a year.....
And after it all... I will drink my weight!!!!
Oh ya... I am the Diarist in the National Post for 5 days starting Monday!!!
What a publicity whore!

Here is the day after the party......preeeeeeettttttttyyyyy....
Always remember that I have NO humiliation wall....okay maybe I do.....let's not go into people sending me humiliating things I have done to make me feel bad....
But I have a part two....and I am making a big announcement...
Besides the huge...I am coming back to Tallulah's for the rest of this year.!!!..... announcement....
It is awesome!!!

Part Two......Backstage with the Divas...

Here is part two!!!

Oh those Divas.....

Next up?

A new segment with a friend and awesome colleague .... He is my fave!!!

Who is it?

Who can it be????

Sharron's Webshow Episode 5 Part 1

Well, friends.... here we are again!!!

I am putting Part One up today and Part Two up in a few days.....

There is a new segment in Part Two.... It has a whole bunch of theatre Divas in it...

I shit you not!!!!

As a sidebar....

You know what I hate?

I hate it when people write mean spirited things about our arts community.....

Reviews are one thing.... 

We hate them but they are what they are...

But to then just write something to compare art and point out shortcomings...

That is just mean and bad for our community.

That is that then.

Hope you enjoy the webshow and see your soon for part two!!!!

WOO HOOO!!!!!!

Oh Wait... and congrats to Avery's company , the Harold Green Jewish Theatre,   on their 5 noms....I know he reads and watches and I was just sooo proud......

Way to go!

Coming soon!!

Alright dudes... I got all waylaid.....waylade.....YOU know what I mean..... moving up here to Niagara and writing and publicizing my show and doing auditions and seeing Sex and the City....LOVED IT!!!.....that I have not did a webshow....it is coming... I will tell you all fave parts of SATC... including the gay dude in front of me who was so excited I thought he might pass out.... and I did a benefit for Theatre Aquarius' Max Reimer  on Monday Night with Susan Gilmour and Lisa Horner and Rick Miller and Steve Ross.... and, of course, my sweet baby George...it was awesome... and I bought a video camera with my award money from Sheridan.... which hasn't arrived yet... but a gal can dream.... anyhow... I got some backstage footage!!!

I am all legit!!!!

Also... the Dora Noms are on Thursday @ 9:30am....WHAT?

Yup, I am gonna be there... and I am thinking about video-ing.... if they let me... they may not... they may be reading this right now and cringing.....

I am also starting to get in the mindset of being the National Post Diarist for the five days before the Doras....holy crap... I just plotzed!

It will all be... breathe Sharron... awesome.

So....you can see why I am behind?

But before I get to the Webshow... any questions or thoughts?

Send them to me @

me@sharronmatthews.com

I am gonna go sleep!

Nighty!

Sharron's Webshow Episode 4 Part 1

Hey you three guys!!

Here is the latest!

I saw some movies..... I cooked some dinner.... I ate some salad.....

AND if that ain't enough.....

Well, just give it a look!

Sharron's Webshow Episode 4 Part Two

Here is part two.... oh... my kitchen still smells like Garlic!

So do my hands.... yummy and uggy at the same time.......

So below  is my list of tunes....

But Look at the video first!!!

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Song for You ...Donny Hathaway

If It's Magic .... Stevie Wonder

Girl From the Gutter....Kina Cosper

32 Flavors .... Ani DiFranco

Mr Bojangles ....Sammy Davis Jr. (Live Version...or Nina Simone Version)

Crying.....KD Lang

Dim All the Lights...Donna Summer

Fields of Gold... Eva Cassidy

I Can Never Take the Place of Your Man....Prince

Blackbird.....Beatles

Sharron's Webshow #3 Part One

So, I tried to do this in order so that it starts with Part One and then you scroll down and look at Part Two!!

Let us hope it works..... I did go to school for musical theatre after all so it could go quite wrong!

Thanks to you all for watching!!!!

This one is called .....

Parviti, Zits and that Bitchy Ballet Teacher.....

Sharron's Webshow #3 Part Two!!!

Hey Here is Part Two.... I tried to do this so it would be helpful with scrolling... let us see if it did.......hoped that the three of you who watched ....watched the Part One first.....Oh my goodness!!!

It takes soooo long to get this up here... I have been staring at this screen for two hours.... did I write that out loud?.....

Oh it's done!!!!

 

Episode 2 PART TWO Kung Fu, MacSteamy and Soup

Here is Part Two!!!

Scroll down to see Part one first!

Woo hoo!!!

Just watching 'Carrie' on afternoon TV.... it always scares me when she reaches out of the ground and grabs... what is that actress' name?..... Amy something... didn't she marry Steve Spielberg .... ug... I exhaust myself....

Webshow #2.... Kung Fu, McSteamy and Soup!

Here is episode number two part one...

I guess I got alot to say!

I hope to have a guest or two on the next one!

I am gonna evolve!!

Scary, eh?

Sharron's Web Show!!!! Episode 1

It is time to try a new medium!!!

I so dig my webcam....it is scary!

There will be guests and songs....everything really!

So excited!!!!

Stop the madness!

So, here I am on the web this fine Saturday morning... 

In the haunted house that I live in in Niagara.....

After going to see my sister in her highschool production ( she is the head secretary at Sir John A MacDonald in Hamilton... they use teachers in parts.... smart) last night..... 

The Sound of Music

Oh lord.... before we go any farther let us talk on how much I hate that freakin' show....

I REALLY do.... 

I have performed in it and seen it at least one

million times....

It may be that I exaggerate but it seems like it was that many.

This production was 3 hours long....

Oh my....

but my sis was awesome...

It is so great to see her onstage....she started doing these shows last year and I think she really gets a kick outta it.

She played a nun....

With glasses....

If you have ever had the chance to see 'Mean Girls' I am actually playing my sister... it is uncanny if you meet here ever...we look exactly alike...even though we are 15 years apart.

She is awesome...

Then I came back here to go the 'Dance Party' @ the George Theatre.

What fun!!!

They would never do something like that at Stratford.

I am not dissing them, Stratford, but ......they WOULD NEVER have an awesome dance party!

George and I lived there for 3 seasons... George worked... I watched.... two wholly different perspectives.

I love it here at Shaw.

It seems like a kinder, gentler place.

Anyhow..THE DANCE PARTY!

The Mac computers were all lined up in a row being manned by three young actors....

Andrew Bunker... and Torquil Campbell.... and a young man I have not had the pleasure of meeting yet... Graeme Sommerville.

They spun awesome tunes.... Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Hendrix and other old school stuff... I made Grey Powell go and ask for Madonna.... which he did with great embarrassment.... but didn't the dance floor fill when it came on..... Molly Jane Atkinson and I made our way to the dance floor and the great man who had the stage as his  dance domain.... the most excellent Peter Millard....invited us on up....

Well, who can turn that invitation down!!

We cut a rug!!!!

What an excellent night!!!

Then this morning... the ghost let us have a real sleep last night.... we asked her nicely....

I turned on the computer and there, on my rogers homepage, is a picture of a newly zaftig Kirstie Alley.

How can this still be news....

It is always news who dudes are fucking....

And how fat and skinny girls are.

It infuriates me.

As someone who has fought, is fighting and will continue to struggle with her weight it makes me mad, sad and sick to see.

Must we always be judged by the size of our hips.... and if so.... does a generous swell bring us up with a negative score!

I say fuck that!

In honour of that I will be launching a little webisode on Tuesday.

REally Sharron?

Yup....

Once a week on here ....

And everyday on Facebook.

I am excited and scared about it.

What will it be?

You have to tune in to see!

Hey All!

Holy Crap....

So I am trying a new medium all!

I am doing a video blog on Facebook.... I tried to do it here but it takes alot of time.... there I can just hit a button and Bob's your uncle.... I am on the web.... it can be a bit dangerous.... do you wanna see it?

Just go to Facebook and it is on my profile page under videos....we aren't friends on Facebook? ... no biggie.... just add me as a friend.

Holy poop.... it is like I am selling Facebook... it is pretty awesome!

And for those who do not like Facebook.... here is a little regular blog for you!

George and I are now in a little haunted house in Niagara.... and as I write that I hear a noise in the kitchen.... oh and another.... it makes me tense up a bit.... she likes the back of the house... oh fuck there it is again..... am I gonna make it here?

The house is soooo nice!!!

Just filled with spirits of dead people....

And just because I have no sense whatsoever... I am reading a book by a guy named Joe Hill.... it is a scary book..... I bought it before I knew that there were ghosts here and I will be damned if I will waste 10.99..... plus tax.

So.... I am just jumpy.

On a whole 'nother note......

It was with a sigh of relief that I got on the bus to come here, I have to tell you.

I finally am going to have a bit of a break after about one year of stuff straight!

I have loved all the good stuff but I am all pooped out from the plays and the party and whatnot.

I looked at the trees and the fields and I felt a great peace come over me.

I really needed that moment.

This year has been  rewarding but also very difficult .... with George's Dad passing and Otto and various other things that have happened to me over the last year.

It has brought me to this time of reflection and breath.

I have been happy  and grateful for the great blessings  that I have received, the work and the Dora's....oh and my award from Sheridan College... who knew?..... oh and the continued love and support of my dear George.

These things reaffirm to  me that I am on the right path and to trust my heart keep on keepin' on.

I feel like after a great deal of searching and hard work I have had some small measure of success.

I have struggled to find my voice since I can remember.

I thought that maybe it might be musical theatre.... where I discovered my first triumphs.... where the kids in highschool who I thought were cool wanted to sit at my lunch table.

I felt accepted and drawn to do more.

But when,  at the age of 24 I did my first cabaret... I never wanted to leave the stage and cried when it was over.... I remember telling George a story I had written  for that, my very first show and he laughed.... wow... George never really laughs... I must be funny...... or something anyway.

All those years since then I have been writing and trying to find my voice in this world.... not just theatre... but the WHOLE world.

Wanna hear something strange?

Some don't like to see others search wholeheartedly for  their bliss.

And I believe that I have found it... at least the bliss that will lead me to the next and the next....I am hearing a voice that is my own and everyday I endeavour  to summon the courage to speak with it.

It sounds so easy... but it was a journey and a half to get to it.

And the greatest surprise to me is others reactions to that.

Some are so unfailingly supportive and helpful.

Others react a different way.

They gossip or spread rumours or just throw out negative energy .

It was a great shock.... that reaction.

I believe that we teach people how to treat us.

I am going to try and  be a better teacher.

Again.... it has been a hell of a year.

I learned to speak up... speak out.... look for love and help when I need it.... oh ya.... and not cower in fear.

That is a year full of lessons I will, no doubt, have to relearn... but I feel like I have had a kick at the can.... maybe I will do better next time.