THE PUSH HAS BEGUN!!!

The push has begun people!!!
The Army is ramping it up and I am going whole hog!!!
I have a fantastic PR guy in NY and a lot....and I do mean A LOT of helpers...and Sharron's ARMY needs you!!!
Spread the word...like a big fabulous, glittering, pop music singing, awesome dress wearing, big hair sporting, potty mouth inclined VIRUS!!!

I just keep thinking...wouldn't it be amazing if a Canadian cabaret perfromer...yes, me...sold out their NY Debut...not a performer attached to a Bway show, not a TV star...a cabaret artist...oh fuck...I just passed out in a cloud of pink talcum powder and fur....CAN YOU SEE THE VISUAL?!?!?!
Yes, I do need your help!!!
Here is the link to my Joe's Pub Page!!
Spread it around!!!
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5106
and here is a lovely article written by one of Sharron's Army and fabu blogger, Amanda Campbell....
http://www.twisitheatreblog.com/2010/05/start-spreadin-news-new-york-sharron.html
And here is my postcard....

If you email me at
me@sharronmatthews.com
I will send you an email embedded version OR a pdf...if you WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS CRAZY WORLD DOMINATION!!!
I am going down a week early to do promo and sing at open mike nights!!!
My fave day so far is Wednesday June 2nd...I will be on Seth Rudetsky's Radio show and THEN in the evening I will be at 8 Christopher Street at a bar called Pieces calling a round of gay bingo and singing a tune....
WTF?!?!?
I LOVE New York.
I do.....
AND I LOVE YOU!!!

My new promo video...

Hey ALL!!!
Here is my newest promo video!
I would like to thank they helpful and very lovely Michael Murphy for giving of his time and doing this!!!
It is in fucking HD!!!
Fast and furious...I try to win you over with a bit of Britney, my reviews and all of the faces I can pull...
And I can pull A LOT of faces.
Checks it out here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMj79FDjWgk
Loves to you all!!!
17 days till NY and 96 days till Edinburgh.
Holy shit.
I am SOOOO excited!

Where's My Money? The play....not the plea.

Hey ALL!!!
Guess what?
This is me promoting.... SOME ONE ELSE!!!
Could you just freak out....I am getting off the floor myself.
My dear friend Mary Francis Moore....

director of the award winning "You Fancy Yourself" is in a play that is being directed by David Ferry and she just keeps talking about how wonderful the whole experience is...for that to come from someone who is also a director...I always figure that is high praise....the show is called
Where's My Money?
I love the title...and the cast is most awesome... besides Ms. MF, the young and talented Christian Bellsmith is in it!
Tomorrow at 1:00pm the Pia Bouman Studio Theatre (6 Noble Street) there is a Pay What You Can....you can check it out ...and if you like it SPREAD THE WORD!!!
Let us support our artists....
Here are the deets...
May 13th to 30th
Tuesday to Saturday
For tix go to www.artsboxoffice.ca or call 416 504 7529
You can find out all of the juicy info at
http://www.alleyco-op.org/
Checks it out people...the tis are only $20.00...you cannot go wrong...you can see how Mary Francis has taken on my hair colour and I hers...I know...not huge important info...but it is me after all.

Wow. This is hard....REWARDING as all get out...but hard.

May 8th and 9th Buddies in Bad Times SUPERSTAR TORONTO
www.traceynolanstudios.com

It is late at night.
The big dog is leaning against the wall staring at me...and now he lies down and I think about joining him...I am so tired.
The last month and a half has been a whirl wind...and now it is Week 20 of World Domination...how the eff did I get here?
You know what is funny? When I put the down payment on my Edinburgh plane tickets...did you know that you could do that?...the lovely person who found and arranged the deal for me (at a fabu discount) asked if there was a company name I said, of course, Sharron Matthews Superstar....they laughed and I realized that I am so used to saying it that it is like saying... Kleenex Toilet Tissue...do they make toilet tissue?
I have gone from crying in my bathtub when I didn't get the grants to sitting on my couch totaling the cash in my "Superstar:World Domination" account....I have paid a lot of things already but I have raised, with the help of a lot of dear people, just under $20,000.00.
I have $10,000.00 to go.
I just had to stop and breathe.
You see, I tend to just keep going great guns until I reach my goal....I need to be all like the inch worm and stop and see how beautiful the garden is...or some shit like that.
I have hosted a huge fund raiser...I have performed the first stop of the tour...I am less than a month away from Joe's Pub and I just booked the Edinburgh tickets and am putting a down payment on a Scottish flat tomorrow....holy crap bags. AND, thanks to Nada Ristich @ BMO, I just received by first corporate donation.
I have come so far.
It IS NOT even close to being at all easy.
It is fucking rewarding as all get out....when I get to all these places it will be a bunch of small donations that got me there...a community....I appreciate ANYTHING that anyone has done to help...and I have been humbled OVER and OVER again by the kindness of friends and strangers...but it is fucking hard, all day long, work.
Today was one of those days.
I woke to thoughts about where to rustle up the last $10,000.00.
I am trying to stick to my very specific (read CHEAP) budget while finding a place in Scotland...you know how much the cheapest place costs...that isn't a hell hole....about 2800 Pounds....$4100.00 Canadian...holy shit, eh?
I am worried about getting a good place to stay that is not a long walk form downtown as I have to bring my costume to the theatre every night...and it has to be close enough that Derrick and I can run down to the Royal Mile (the hub of the Festival and sell the show and meet other artists and producers) all day long before the show.
The next thought I have is that I have to send out more invitations to New York today...a lot of them.
I have to...I have to...my husband looks at me and I sigh.
I have to take a couple days to breathe.
A friend called today to talk to me and I could not even take the call...I felt a bit overwhelmed by it all...after a big show (and I have done the fund raiser and the May Buddies show with less than four weeks apart with no break in STEAM) I usually take a couple days to just read. That is all.
I buy a really trashy book or two and eat chips and read.
No such luck.
But the shows this past weekend?
Magic.
True magic.
I had such lovely crowds and I loved the songs...the first night I had a whole "Holy shit I am going to take this around the world" crisis of confidence. I felt good about my work that night but I had to fight the jimmy nerves the whole show.
The second night I promised myself I would have fun.
I did.
Both nights were totally valuable for different reasons....mostly because I actually got to sing.
That is what I miss the most during all of this admin work, which, most of the time, I actually quite like...BUT I have to remind myself that this is all about how I want to sing more often.
I am excited that there are so many people getting on planes, trains and automobiles to come to Joe's in New York. I feel lucky that people give that much of a poop about what I am doing.
I feel lucky and a bit exhausted.
I think I need to do some work and cap it off...take the time...just a couple of days.
I am beginning to dread my phone dinging.
I have to have a fresh mind to tackle the last $10,000.00...I have some ideas but I think that if I have a break a will have more.
Mostly, I just want to give George my full attention.
How much can one guy take of the same subject for 20 weeks straight....he truly is the best man.
He is in bed right now.
Sleeping.
I am going too.
I hope you are all well and ...thank you.

Raffle and GET THERE EARLY!!!!

Alright people, here we are!!!
Tonight (and Tomorrow) are it!
Don't know what you are up to tonight...COME ON DOWN!!!
Buddies in Bad Times 12 Alexander Street!
It is my ONLY dates for Toronto and it is just me and you and the music! I am super excited!!! I would love to see you.
I have been advised by Chris @ Buddies that it is best to arrive early as there is a show in the big space SO you don't wanna get stuck in that line!!! We are opening the doors at 7:15pm!!

Come early and have a drink and buy a Raffle ticket ! The prizes are really amazing and total about $1500.00!!!
Tickets are 1 for $5
3 for $7
8 for $20

Pretty as a Superstar Package
Minerals from DTBeauty
Necklace from Just for You by Alex
Worth $230.00


Opening Night Tickets to the Mirvish's
Legally Blonde

Signed Bruce Dow CD

Sharron’s Army TSHIRTs


Be A Superstar Package
Photo Shoot with Tracey Nolan
Styling and $25 Gift Certificate From Fashion Crimes
Worth $300.00

Harold Green Jewish Theatre Package
2 Seats to the Sunday March 27th performance of Zero Hour starring Jim Brochu and directed by Piper Laurie.
“ a one man show based on the life of Zero Mostel”

Also 2 tickets to each of our Conversations on the Green
Jane Mallett Theatre – 5 Mondays throughout the year

“This one on one chat, hosted by Ralph Benmergui – is with a celebrity discussing how Jewish culture has influenced their career”
Package includes chats with Amy Sky, David Mirvish, Eddie Greenspan, Jeanne Beker and Norman Jewison

Worth $285.00

Necklace and Earrings by Just for You By Alex
Worth $110.00

AND
Pick the Last Song of the NIGHT!!
Bohemian Rhapsody
Don’t Stop Believin’
Hotel California
How Deep is Your Love
Glamourous / Paparazzi
I Walk the Line / I’m On Fire
Tainted Love / Slave 4 U
True Colours

AMAZING!!!
And you can buy your Sharron's Army TShirt for a mere $20.00!!!
If you doante over $100.00 you will get a charitable receipt, a Tshirt and your name on this wall!!!

http://www.sharronmatthews.com/donors.htm

Hope to see you there!!!

I FINALLY WON AND AWARD...AND IT DOES SOMETHING DIRTY!!!

I won an award. THANK YOU Diane Leah. It almost looks like an Oscar... almost.

So...a couple months ago I get asked by the dear Diane Leah (fabulous musical director and head of music at MCC) to sing at a gig...she is very non committal about what it is...where it is...who it is for...that should have been my first clue.
In the next few weeks every time I ask her about it she tells me there is no money...that they were looking for someone wacky...and that it would be great exposure....all my fave things.
(Not my fave things...sarcasm is hard over the intraweb)
But the amazing Ms. Diane Leah has played for guests on Sharron's Party for absolutely free many times...I see no problem with doing this, VERY ambiguous at best, gig.
And Diane Leah doesn't ask for much but when she does...you do it!
So, last night I end up at something called the "Harold Awards".
I had heard about them...they are for the independent theatre artist...so, they were always too cool for me...they are all about being set up and surprised...secrets and lies.
I think that Diane, who has told me not to write about it online and has arranged to pick me up for the night and everything, is either A: Setting up someone else...possibly Louise OR B: taking me somewhere to kill me after.
I am scheduled to sing Bohemian Rhapsody with Diane accompanying.
When we get pulled up onstage...the keyboard is...not a fucking word of a lie...30 keys...it was a perfect mess...we did a comedy show...we tried to cut a verse and the audience said no...Diane was supposed to stop me....and I was NOT to be stopped.
And then Diane presented a Harold Award to me.
The inscription reads..."Named for the Late Harold Kandel, a theatregoer and frequent heckler, this award is for outstanding contributions to Toronto's performing arts scene."
I had an idea it might be something but I NEVER expected it to come from Diane Leah...I didn't even know that she won last year...that is the thing about the award...it is passed down from the person who got it the year before...before her was Leslie Arden and before Leslie...Jonathan Munro. My award started with Don McKellar and went first to Sky Gilbert.
Wow.
I am always honoured to be recognized by our community...and the lineage just makes it all the sweeter.
Diane Leah's respect is something I will hold close to my heart. It was, don't tell, one of the best parts.
That and Keith Cole telling me a story about how when he accepted his Harold award that he was in a sweat shirt covered with questionable stains (think Monica Lewinski's Blue Dress)....VOTE FOR KEITH FOR MAYOR!!!
It is one month tomorrow till my Joe's Pub debut and I FINALLY WON AN AWARD!!!
WORLD DOMINATION WEEK 19!!!!

Me and Grant Ramsay....we celebrate the Harold!!!

And Scroll back and forth between the pics....that is me and one of my dearest friends and supporters Grant Ramsay, by the by....if you scroll back and forth my award gives you the finger.
Perfect.
Don't you think?
And I would be remiss if I didn't say COME AND SEE MY SHOW AT BUDDIES THIS SATURDAY THE 8th or SUNDAY the 9th!!! 8:00pm....
P.S. The raffle prizes are off the hook...opening night tickets to the "Legally Blonde", a subscription to the Harold Green Jewish Theatre, "Pretty as a Superstar" Package that includes Dan Thompson Make Up, Beautiful Jewelry and a Styling and $25 voucher to Fashion Crimes, Tshirts and, of course, the honour of choosing last song!
Come on out!!!

Eddie and Dame Edna and World Domination

I got to see one of my idols in person this weekend.
Okay...I was sitting in the 8th row at Massey Hall...but I could still see him REAL clear...
I never buy tickets to anything...we can never afford them and George loves a good concert, so we have been left lacking the last couple of years BUT when I heard that Eddie Izzard was coming to town I was on it.
Do you know him?
I saw him for the first time when I was on tour with Les Mis. I was in my hotel room in Washington DC, probably eating a piece of Papa John’s pizza...fuck I loved that stuff...and smoking one of my last cigarettes...who knew I could quit cold turkey?...not me....I didn’t even know I was smoking my last cigarette. That sounds like I was going to be shot by a firing squad.
Anyhow, I was watching HBO....god, I love hotel rooms...I do...and there he was...in all of his transvestite glory. He was wearing a blue silk chinese style dress, wide leg pants and a pair of chunky high heels. Doing some of the funniest comedy I have ever seen.
And everyone in his audience looked quite conservative...and they also looked like they were having the time of their lives...how did that happen?
In a culture where the different and the special are not understood... here was someone who was very different and everyone was just....accepting. Because that motherfucker was funny...and smart...and I wanted to be him when I grew up.
Now, here I am over 10 years later FINALLY seeing him live.
He inspired me.
He is my idol.
He accepted himself, clearly, and the fact that he was a transvestite was a simple side bar in his comedy.
LOVE THAT!
I told George before we left on Saturday night to see his show that I was super nervous...he said “Why?”...I said “Because I am so nervous because I am afraid I am so excited that I will pass out and miss the show.”
See, I really like him.
I don’t like anyone like that...except...except...Dame Edna.
The first time I saw her was on a TV program in which she went into people’s homes and went through there dresser drawers in front of a studio audience...funny shit.
But it was her variety show that was my big inspiration...she had on all the stars of the day...and she was glamorous in a tacky kind of way and she made you feel like you knew her...and she was also a dude in a dress...Barry Humphries plays her...but I ALWAYS think of her as Dame Edna.
She is a raconteur...my computer dictionary definition of that word is...a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
Oh lord.
Doesn’t that sound delicious?
I wanna be that.
I couldn’t (and can’t) wait to see either of these performers again. I feel like I know them. I wanted that. I want that.
So, when I put my shows together they are in the back of my mind.
Accessible.
And FUN!!!
Over the top....and just a bit in charge.
And now here I am...
All of my work has brought me here.
This weekend, yes, Saturday May 8th and Sunday May 9th @ Buddies, is the first stop in my dream tour.
This is the first show of this type that I will do alone in a long while.
I have not beat the shit out of it promo wise...because I thought you all might be exhausted from the Fund Raiser...but this is really the culmination of all of my work....and, oddly, the beginning of the rest of my work.
I am very excited...I have agononized over the set list...that is the thing about this tour...the show will be different in every city....I will do a show specifically for that place.
So, this is special for you guys....as a thank you.
A thank you for your support and donations.
I knew that I would not raise these funds from big dollar donations...although I have had a few larger ones... this tour is happening through $5 to $500 donations...this tour is being built brick by brick and when I get the money to go...and I will....it will be a community that sent me...our community...and I cannot thank you enough.
Thanks for reading all my posts and emails....for not de-friending me, but letting me promote.
Thank you for donating your money, your time, your tickets, your art and your ideas.
The letters you have sent me and the kindness you have shown me gets me through everyday.
God....I sound like I am on my death bed and all serious....
If you have been following along on this journey....it is Week 19 of World Domination...and it has not been easy....and some days have been unbelievable...some have made me lay down for a “mama” nap!
I need about $14,000 more dollars to reach my original goal. With a recent (and very exciting) corporate promise of $2000.00 that puts the total at $12,000.00 left to raise.
I have to give a shake and remind myself that I have raised $18,000.00 dollars....holy fuck doodles.
But I see the total that I need and I begin to work again.
If anyone has an extra $5.00....actually $25.00...COME AND spend $20.00 for a ticket to my dream tour show this weekend on the 8th and 9th...sit with me as I tell you some stories and sing some tunes.
There will be a raffle...there are amazing prizes...the tickets are...WHAT? $5!!!
Buy a TSHIRT and become a part of Sharron’s Army....the tshirts are an easy $20.00 or you can even donate MORE!!! If you donate more than $100.00 you get a tax receipt!
EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS!!!
It is my dream AND GOAL to have the money that I need by the end of THIS month so I can focus on performance and promo!!
When I sat in the audience at Massey Hall this weekend....I closed my eyes and visualized...I visualized the day that I will walk out there on that Massey Hall stage... it will happen.
You heard it here first.
Oprah says it...YOU GOTTA DREAM BIG!
Thank you all....below is the list of Sharron’s Army so FAR!!!
THANK YOU!!! DO you wanna add your name?!?!?!?

Donors For “Sharron Matthews Superstar : World Domination Tour 2010”

General $2000.00 or more

I am waiting!

Lieutenant $500.00 to $1999.99

Curtis Barlow
Gary May
Joan Mathers
The John McKellar Charitable Foundation
Jerry and Kathy McRoberts
Ian Epstein and Kathy Kacer
Kevin Finora
Nancy Ruth

Army $50 to $499.99

Ari Weinberg
Becky and Kathy Liddle
Betty’s
Brian Goldberg
Buddies in Bad Times
Canadian Stage
Clinton Walker
Dan Thompson Beauty
Doug Price
The Elgin Winter Garden Theatres
Esther Yermus
Gillian Tooke
Harbourfront Centre
Jamie Porter
Just for You by Alex
Karen LeBlanc
Lorraine Kimsa Theatre For Young People
Luminato
Lynne Jamieson
Marcel Watier
Marcello Tulipano
Marie Baron
Mary Lu Zahalan
Melissa Yetman
Miriam Flynn
Mirvish Productions
Natalie Heron
Opera Atelier
Patricia Wilson
Peter Martyn
Rod Kelly
Ron Cameron-Lewis
The Shaw Festival
Soulpepper
The Stratford Festival
Sophie Radecki
Stefan Moccio
Tim Hughes
Veritas
Visit Scotland



Sharron’s Privates People who have supported, given their free time and/or skill,promoted and/or helped Sharron immeasureably on this World Domination Tour!

Alex Saslove
Amanda Campbell
Ari Weinberg
Andy Parks
Bruce Dow
Charlotter Moore
Chris Lorway
Chris Mitchell
Constance Marlatt
Chrystal Donbrath
Crystal Rickard
David Oiye
Ed Sahely
Evan Smith
Gabi Epstein
Grant Ramsay
Jean Stilwell
Jeff Breithaupt
Jim Russell
Julia Gardener
Kathryn McEwen
Keith Cole
Kelly Holiff
Kyle Golemba
Leslie Arden
Louise Pitre
Mark Davis
Michael Gianfrancesco
Michael Hughes
Pablo Kessleman
Pam Chorley
Paul Sportelli
Patricia Wilson
Patricia Zentilli
Patti and John Loach
Peter Phoa
Rob Kempson
Robert Missen
Sara Farb
Shawn Daudlin
Shelley Quinn
Sky Gilbert
Susan Bourcier
Sutton Foster
Thom Allison
Tracey Nolan
Tricia Lackey
Wayne Gwillim
William Humenick

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Sharron's ONLY Toronto Superstar dates...and HOW much did you raise???

So, here we are people! Week 18 of World Domination and things are shaping up!!! Derrick and I are about NY promo and flights, and accommodations and listening to Scottish people over skype and NOT QUITE being able to understand them. RIGHT!!! But here is the awesome and amazing news...all of you who came out to the fund raiser...who bought a ticket, who purchased a raffle ticket, who bought a package, a tshirt or a song....THANK YOU...you helped us raise....are you ready? $10,000.00. I am serious as a heart attack. I just about passed out. I thank you....I thank you. So, I am just over $16,000.00 in funds...my goal WAS $30,000.00....but now I am all dreamy and motivated...I want to add a couple of London (England..not Ontario...though it is lovely) dates on after Edinburgh...we are over there anyhow, right? So, now my goal is $40,000.00. Yup, you heard it...I am all MAGICALLY THINKING!!! Why not! SO....here is the thing...I have been trying to give you a "SHARRON MATTHEWS OFFICIAL PROMOTIONAL BREAK" but I gotta tell you a little secret... it isn't a well kept secret but now I have to announce it here... Next weekend, On Saturday May 8th and Sunday May 9th I will be previewing my "World Domination Tour" show at Buddies. These are the ONLY TORONTO DATES! I want to do my show for the people who have been SO SUPPORTIVE in my journey thus far (that sounds lordy...you know what I mean!) It will be a one act, 60 minute show...at the fabu price of $20.00 with $15.00 arts and student tickets. You can get your Sharron's Army Tshirt for $20.00. And there will be a raffle....YES!!! More awesome prizes!!! Tshirts, CD's, Theatre Subscriptions....LAST SONGS!!! So, call 416 975 8555 (Tuesday to Saturday between noon and 5:00pm) or go to www.totix.ca for tickets. I would love to celebrate this tour with you!!! Maybe you can tell me what songs you want to hear....it is the best of the best.... Hey ALL of my NY friends... it is never too early to get your tickets for NY...my New York cabaret debut at Joe's Pub on June 5th and 6th.....here is a link to my Joe's Pub Page!!! http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5106 I have attached a pdf of the official tour postcard to pass around!!! I am going to NY for the entire first week of June to promote myself....it is getting very EXCITING!!! Thank you for reading and for supporting!!! I hope to see you in Toronto next weekend...or NY in June....maybe Scotland in August....oh the DOMINATION !!!! Love
Shar

Oh my sweet lord...I am tired...but proud and humbled...and a bunch of other stuff....

I would like to start this note, blog...wherever the fuck this ends up...with a quote put up by Nora and David on their status. Favourite quote of the week so far..."When Canadians are awarded things, they look behind them to see if it was meant for somebody else." Margaret Atwood on receiving her Order of Canada D. Loves it...so true... I felt like was looking over my shoulder ALL WEEKEND! With a mix of liquid bowels....come on, let us be truthful people...allergies, nervous " I can't string two words together" brain, Attention Deficit Disorder (I could NOT concentrate on ONE thing for longer than...what part of the Silent Auction is that a part of?....SEE!) and just plain terror that I could not pull this off.
Though I do enjoy a good challenge....this was just ridiculous. But not impossible...nothing is impossible.
There was a lot to focus on...but I had the great fortune and luck of asking a number of people for their assistance. Just so we get this straight...the Project Manager of this little shin dig...of which I was the Donald Trump (POWER and a hairpiece to prove it!) of...was none other than the long suffering, but much loved, George Masswohl. (His gorgeous hair salt and pepper hair began to turn silver THE MOMENT he said "I do!")
He made sure I was where I was supposed to be, made sure that if you were paying with Visa or MC that you were whisked out of the room with the greatest of ease...and when I ran long, was probably the ONLY person who could tell me that I needed to cut a song without suffering some sort of head injury. I mean, let's keep being honest.
Also, I would like to say here...and I hope he doesn't hate me for this...that he was wide awake on Friday morning...way before me...and when I opened my eyes he looked at me and said "I am so excited!"
I love him.
Then there were team managers (and don't forget a co-producer) Derrick Chua....Sara Farb....Michael Hughes...Shelley Quinn... And we had the all important runners, hander outers, helpers. "Sharron you look like a crazy person maybe I can do something for you"ers and idea people...Kelly Holiff, Evan Smith, Gabi Epstein, Constance Marlatt, Susan Bourcier and Alex Saslove.
The outpouring of kindness from theatre companies, recording artists, producers, restaurants and independent artists and artisans was not to be believed.
I mean, I am an independent artist who decided to do a silent auction 3 weeks ago based on maybe getting some Soulpepper tickets to raffle off...I got scoffed at, let me tell you...but I had the luck of the above mentioned people...especially George, Sara, Michael and Kelly...and they rocked it...there isn't a final total but we made upwards of $3000.00 alone on the Silent Auction!
And the raffle was Kelly and Michael's idea... and we made just under $800.00 on that!!
OKAY!!!
We have Sharron's Army TSHIRTS that will be available at EVERY gig until they are gone!!! And they are now priced to move at $20.00!!!
We have not even counted the LAST SONG people!!
April 16th Peter Phoa, for $200.00, picked "True Colours"....I effed up a couple of lines...not too bad but I offered him $5 back just to keep it square...he said no...thank god. (I need that $5 for coffee in NY!)
When I was told I could do the official Chris Skinner "One More Song", even though I had run over something awful...fuck I can talk...Patricia Wilson, the bar manager, said I could only do it if someone paid me $100.00...and CLINTON WALKER picked up the slack...and we even ALMOST frenched in front of EVERYONE!!! He asked for "Hotel California!....HOT!!! And I sang "Brandy" for the ever remembered Chris Skinner...that one was on me...of course.
April 17th I decided to NOT let this one go for less that $500.00...and there was a quiet man named GAry, who was there with his man Kevin, who, incidentally I had given some Tangy Cherry Lube to earlier in the night (long story) who had his hand half in the air...and then Shelley Quinn hit him so it went higher...gotta love Shelley!!...and he asked for Bohemian Rhapsody!!! AWESOME!! Patricia said I could do one more if...you guess it...someone bid $100.00....a lovely lady in the balcony named Natalie Heron said "I'LL DO IT!!!"...so she got a little Last Dance...perfect...just perfect....
What an outpouring...and the guests were fab...Iain Robert Stewart, Matthew Villmare, Colin Noel-Baldwin, Jordan Till ( who was my percussionist extraordinaire all two nights) Jocelyn Regina, Mike Cox and Joel Gomez....they are my Sheridan Students and I COULD not have been prouder!!
Anyhow...the clothes were awesome of course www.fashioncrimes.ca and the audiences were amazing...and the love and support...well, as I said....I just kept looking over my shoulder!
I am on my way!!
But I still have a ways to go...but I will make it!!!!
I know that I have just promoted the SHIT out of the fund raiser...and I will leave you be for couple days...but I gotta tell you that the only Toronto dates for the actual World Domination Tour are Saturday May 8th and Sunday May 9th...it is a short show...60-70 minutes with no intermission and it will be the show that I am doing in NY.
I want to try it out in front of my hometown supporters and peeps first! Tickets are $20.00 with a $15.00 Student and Arts Worker Ticket. Call 416 975 8555 between noon and 5:00pm or go to www.totix.ca I hope that you can come...as always, spread the word! Become a part of "Sharron's Army"... I would love to have you...help me take over the world one person at a time.

THE FUND RAISER!!! Silent Auction!! Awesome. And The Fab Magazine Article!

So!
It is only one day away people!!!
Can you fricken take it??!!!
I know that some of you will just be happy to not see my self promotion....I understand...but till then..here is the list of my fabu Silent Auction Articles...I cannot believe how much people have given... I feel very honoured!!! Plan what you want in advance!
So, here is the list!!!

Lot 1“Sharron’s Official Tour Companion”Package

2 tickets to “Sharron Matthews Superstar” in TORONTO Buddies in Bad Times May 8th or 9th 2010
* 2 tickets to “Sharron Matthews Superstar” in NEW YORK Joe’s Pub June 5th or 6th 2010
* 2 ticket to “Sharron Matthews Superstar” in EDINBURGH theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall
1 Picture with Sharron that will be featured on her Website declaring you her OFFICIAL TOUR COMPANION! for 2010
* 1 “Sharron’s Official Tour Companion” TShirt
Est Value: $200.00


Lot 2 “Rock of Ages” Package

2 Tickets to “Rock of Ages” at the Royal Alex June 1st 2010
1 Official CD Soundtrack of the Original Company of “Rock Of Ages”
1 poster for the Canadian production of “Rock of Ages”
EST VALUE: $250.00


Lot 3 “Toronto Theatre Lovers” Package

2 Tickets to the July 12th, 2010 Performance of “Jitters” at Soulpepper at the Young Centre
2 Weekday 3 Night Season Subscriptions to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
2 tickets to the October 30th, 2010 Opera Atelier production of Handel’s “Acis and Galatea”
2 Tours of the Winter Garden Elgin Theatres
Est. Value: $450.00


Lot 4 “Sharron Did a Kid’s Show?!” Package
(And she loved the Kid's show by the by!)
Family Four Pack (4 tickets) to any show in the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre For Young People 2010/11 Season
1 Framed Photo of Sharron in her Dora nominated performance of The Wicked Witch in Lorraine Kimsa Theatre For Young People production of “The Wizard of Oz”
1 Photocopy of Sharron’s Dora nomination to prove it!
Est. Value: $80.00


Lot 5 “Bruce Dow’s Package” Package

2 Tickets to “Two Gentlemen of Verona” at the Stratford Festival in which Bruce Dow stars
2 Signed copies of Bruce Dow’s CDs “Lucky to Be Me” and “Keepin’ Out Of Mischief”
1 Backstage tour after “Two Gentlemen of Verona” conducted by Bruce Dow HimSELF!!!
Est. Value: $200.00


Lot 6 “Come See and Drink with Sharron in Edinburgh” Package

*2 tickets to “Sharron Matthews Superstar” at theSpace @ Surgeon’s Hall in Edinburgh between August 16th and 28th 2010
*2 Drinks (total!) after the show with Sharron!!!
*2 Edinburgh 2 Day Passes (Bus Passes, Airport transport passes, Free entrance to most attractions in Edinburgh
*2 “Sharron’s Army” TShirts
Est Value: $310.00


Lot 7 “Come See and Drink with Sharron at Joe’s Pub in NY” Package

* 2 tickets to “Sharron Matthews Superstar” at Joe’s Pub June 5th or 6th 2010
* 2 Drinks (total!) after the show with Sharron!!!
2 “Sharron’s Army” TShirts
Est Value: $200.00


Lot 8 “Bird on Head on Field of Red” Painting by Toronto’s PattyZee
Est Value : $300.00


Lot 9 “Cat on Head with Butterflies” Painting by Toronto’s PattyZee
Est Value : $300.00


Lot 10 “Toronto Cabaret Lover’s Cd Package”

* 6 CDs, one by each of these fabulous artists George Masswohl, Patricia Zentilli and Patti Loach, Jean Stilwell and Patti Loach, Gabi Epstein, Michael Hughes and Thom Allison

NOTE: There are two of these packages. One for each night
Est Value : $120.00


Lot 11 “Be Your Own Superstar” Package

$150.00 Worth of mineral make up from Daniel Thompson Beauty ( Sharron’s Fave Make UP!)
Jewelry from Just For You by Alex (Sharron’s Fave Jewelry Designer)
1 Styling session and a $25.00 Gift Certificate from Sharron’s Fave Clothing Designer and clothing sponsor “Pam Chorley’s Fashion Crimes”


Lot 12 “ I Wish Sharron Had Sung...” The Last Song of the Night Package

Purchasing this package entitles you to choose the LAST SONG of the night TONIGHT!!!

From this list:
Bohemian Rhapsody * Hotel California * Don’t Stop Believin’
Creep * Material Girl/Diamonds Are Forever * Hanging By A Thread * How Deep is Your Love * I’ve Never Been to Me
Last Dance* Slave 4 U * True Colours * Brandy

AND IF YOUR BID is over $2000.00 you will recieve an appearance by Sharron at the event of your choice! (Anywhere within 75 Kilometres of Toronto)


So...there will be TShirts...and surprises and god knows what else!
But I suggest you buy your tickets NOW people!!! I don't want anyone who wants to be there to be turned away! Call 416 975 8555 or go to www.totix.ca

Here is link to this weeks FAB Magazine....download the PDF of this week's magazine....there is an awesome article!!!
http://www.fabmagazine.com/

Can't wait people!!!

Curtains Down, Vampires, Milkshakes and Derrick Chua.

So, I was in the bathtub last night after a long day of DOMINATING!!! and I got a text, yes, I put my blackberry near the tub, and it was from the young Sara Farb....it said "Come to Curtain's Down". I love me some Jennifer Burke...this gal has worked it...she must have been hosting her creation "Curtain's Down" for two years now...this month!!! I think I am right..Jenni? Anyhow, I have been going for the last three weeks to sing and hand out my cards for the big Fund Raiser this weekend (April 16th and 17th Call 416 975 8555 for tickets or go online to www.totix.ca...they are really going fast and I am not just saying that) like a media whore...I don't give an eff, a gal has got to sell herself...but last night I was super tired...and naked in the bath at 10:00pm...but George yelled over from the couch, whilst he was playing his beloved "GOD OF WAR' on his PBox490...I have no fricken idea what it is called...he yelled over "Didn't you promise Jenni you would come tonight...I put aside my vampire romance novel...yes, suck it people...it is the one of the only thing that relaxes me during the World Dom...HEY, SUCK IT...vampire...whatever...

.I put aside my Vampire novel and get out of the bath and there George and I are 30 minutes later.....getting out of a cab outside of Curtain's Down.
It is now at the swanky Pantages Bar in the Pantages Hotel...and if you haven't gone...you HAVE to go!! What a great night Jenni arranges and performs...and there is a young hip crowd there...and celebrities galore...a gal from the new 90210 was there last night...I didn't really care because I still remember Brenda and Dillon...I don't go for the TV remakes... THEY NEVER WORK...and Mindy Cohn, Natalie from the Facts of Life was there...Canadian celebs Charlotte Moore, George Masswohl (heehee, it is true!) Nora Sheehan and David Rosser, the cast of the Jersey Boys fresh from singing O Canada at the opening Blue Jay's game showed up, Mark Cassius and an amazing singer named Farah from Vegas sang....amazing young performers Sara Farb, Michael Hughes, kelly Holiff and Gabi Epstein sang...what a night!!! It was fabulous!
It was fresh, hip and camp all at the same time!
I sang the Bohemian Rhapsody to promote my show...Mindy Cohn told me a bit about the Edinburgh Festival, where she has produced 2 shows...then Derrick poked me to hand out more cards...slave driver...and then, like 22 year olds George, who was so handsome in his white jacket and I joined the kids at Fran's for milkshakes and french fries...just like after the opening night of your high school musical...except all of the people at this table were busy texting each other...we were right beside EACH OTHER!
But one of my happiest moments was when Derrick Chua's drink came...everyone ordered milkshakes and Derrick ordered the confection you see above...it made me love him a bit more.
This World Domination gal needed that...back to the grind!
Getting together the SUPERIOR silent auction, picking up TSHIRTS...doing interviews, rehearsing!
Oh, what a whirlwind!!!

World Domination is a 24 hour a day business.

It is Saturday Afternoon.
I am in bed with the dogs.
No, not the reason you think...I am not lazing...no...if we bring the dogs up on the bed they are so filled with rapture that they will sleep another 4 hours before asking to go outside.
So, it is a tad selfish.
And I am sick of myself today.
Don't get me wrong...I think I am a decent human...I enjoy my hair...there are other things that I can list as traits that I like...for which an I thankful...but today...as I swing into the final push before my big "Sharron Matthews Superstar:World Domination Tour 2010 Fund Raiser Kick Off" officially the longest title in the history of all cabaret (I still LOVES IT!) I am a bit sick of myself.
I am going to share something with all of my faithful readers that you might already know if you are faithful enough to follow along....World Domination is a time COMSUMING PROJECT!!!
Sorry to yell at you there...I just got carried away.
Here is yesterday...and believe me...I am as sick to hear about it as you might be. But if not...it gets kinda funny so hold on.
I ran around getting hard tickets for the fund raiser for one of my faithful supporters who is selling them from her office...like crack....and she is selling the SHIT OUTTA them. Thank you, Trixie.
While I was at Buddies getting tickets...how does one get tickets there, you might ask....sigh...(416 975 8555 Box office open at noon till 5:00pm) I took a donation from the lovely John McKellar to Buddies to be processed...yes, even before this fund raiser I have ....raised funds!!!
Then I put in my hair piece, yup I said it...and John "Honey" Hughes picked me up and, though we were gonna leave at 4:00pm...George told us to leave earlier....just in case...we left TO at 3:00pm arriving in Stouffville at ....3:30pm...for my 8:00pm show.
We were a bit early.
What to do...we went to Swiss Chalet...for 3 hours...
I did a second show of my "Sharron's Big Broadway Show" in the FABULOUS Lebovic Centre in Stouffville...what a gorgeous space people...and Kathy and Becky came up from Toronto after seeing the pic of John and I at the Swiss Chalet (suck it people, social networks work!!)it was so lovely to see them in the front row. It was a wonderful show! I loved the audience and we all had a great time...and I am a media whore so I came out after and handed out postcards for my fund raiser...see, sick of myself!!!
We got into the car came back to TO in record time and I went to see the beautiful and talented Pattyzee off...she is moving to Edmonton...sigh...and promised one friend, who shall remain nameless, that they would get their awesome set up date in the next two weeks.
ON IT!!!
Then ...yes, it is 11:30pm...I went to Buddies to hear the dear Keith Cole talk about his campaign for Mayor (LOVES IT)!!! He also had an amazing drag queen from Montreal on the show who did Edith Piaf...Sky Gilbert and I agreed that we have never seen the like before...it was something.
Keith called me up onstage and while in my coat and holding my huge purse I sang that song that those fucking Glee bastards stole from me...yes, I know Journey sang it first but WHAT EVER!! And I gave out cards for my fund raiser...sigh...and then I found myself dancing the night away with David Tomlinson, Ryan Kelly and David Lopez.
I guess I, all of a sudden, thought I was 21 years old for fuck sakes.
Fun.
But I am not 21.
I need sleep...to take over the World and all!
Then I walked to my car and drove home.
I love World Domination...but this shit is 24/7 people!!!
So, today I lay with my dogs and made an event of FB...talked about myself some more...sigh...sick...and then I get to the good part.
I am rehearsing the show today...and Steve Thomas, Wayne Gwillim and myself have worked on some AWESOME arrangements...this shit is off the hook...as the young people say.
I love the singing part...the other is not bad...but sigh...today is one of those days...just gotta be honest...
I have not done a new show since last June...and I realize I have A LOT TO SAY!!!
So, help me get over myself and come on out to this fund raiser people!!!

Ari Weinberg asks you to come to my Fund Raiser.

What a lovely young man.
I hope this works....
Checks it.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=381738811709&ref=nf

Spring and Random Thoughts!

Dear Mother Nature,
I know we have had a rocky and tumultuous (I thought that word had an "R" in it, who knew?) relationship but I am in love with you...and I have spoken to my husband and he has agreed that it would be okay if you wanna come and make sex with me...not that I think I am super special in the bedroom...but sex is sex and I am willing to take one, as it were, for the team.
Dear EVERYONE else!!
Can you believe the fucking weather?!?!?!!?
YAYAYAYAA!!!
Thank god for the good weather because the World Domination tour is ramping up and I need to sometimes go outside with my monster dogs and walk it out!!!
SO BUSY!!!
But I have a few random thoughts...besides the fact that the World Domination Tour 2010 Kick OFF is less than two weeks away!!! Oh!!! I have been working on some cool stuff!!! Go buy your tickets to this exciting show!!! With Guests, surprises and who knows what else!!
Call 416 975 8555 or go online to www.totix.ca
RANDOM THOUGHTS...
Yesterday, I turned to George and said "I am worried about Sandra Bullock." He looked at me strangely and kept doing what he was doing.
At our midnight tour of St. Mike's two nights ago...don't ask...I thought "Thank god we are here early enough that the club girls ( and drag queens) haven't had too many Long Island Ice Teas (yes, that is the last time I have been to a club) and fallen off of their 4 inch wedgie heels and been brought by hot paramedics to emergency."
(Then I fell asleep with my scarf as a pillow, which, when the nurse woke me up, fell into the disease infested garbage...she shook it out and told me to wash it...I put it back in the garbage and washed my hands for an hour)
I love spring.
I love it.
I love it.

Last Night Someone Called Me Fat.

Last night someone called me fat. And not even in English. It has been my life long struggle. My weight. Once someone who was sitting right beside me...who is a good friend... called me the “Luther Vandros of Canadian Musical Theatre”...to which I forced the expected gut laugh.
Yes, I laughed at it...because I was embarrassed. Shouldn’t I seem as if I am fine about it...strong and empowered by it?
But, believe me people, to me, my weight is not a laughing matter...it is something I agonize over on a daily basis. EVERY fucking DAY!
Everything I eat, everything that I wear, circles around where my very sensitive form is at that day.
And yes, it seems more sensitive than others...it does...you can all think what you want about my choices but when I sit beside a 5 foot gal who mows down a steak dinner with a beer and she tells me that her appetite is like this all the time...I know that my body is sensitive.
I joke that I was born to carry milk and farm...that, basically, I was born with the genes of a peasant...this is my latest 'funny quip' about the battle that has raged within me my whole life.
I have never wanted it to define who I am.
So, I don’t usually talk about it.
But I picked a business where it is a central focus.
Funny that.
Being big is obvious.
Sometimes you can’t tell when your friend is a crack head...and crack can make you thin...so maybe you have given your crackhead pal a compliment on their recent weight loss. Who knows how they lost it...they look great...size wise anyhow.
Yes, that is harsh...but that will tell you where I am at today.
Many times I have lost weight just to avoid the snap decisions that the world makes even before you open your mouth...they see you standing there and make assumptions...she is jolly, she is funny, she eats too much, she can take me telling her all of these things...she is an object to be judged simply by her size.
And I am angry that I have lost weight for that reason...but I am not going to lie to you... it was great to level the playing field, even for a while.
The oddest thing I experience at the edge of a large weight loss is that it never seems enough. I don’t know where to stop...
As I have lost weight a number of times I do my best to not listen or confront the opinions and voices that come my way...but it is a futile battle sometimes...equal to the final war scene in that movie “300”.
Here are the comments and here are my standard responses.
“You look so much better.” Than what exactly? A dog, a tree, a couch?
“You have lost a ton.” I didn’t know that I had weighed a metric tonne.
“We were all hoping you would lose the weight” Did you and Canada have a talk about my pants size? I am flattered.
You know how I always know that I have gained a bit too much weight?
In conversations when people are talking about bigger humans someone is just about to say fat...they even get the “f” out if their mouths...and they say overweight, large sized or, my person fave, hefty...like the garbage bag.
I know I have “become socially acceptably thin” when FAT comes back into a conversation.
The above mentioned scale is more trustworthy than any scale or pair of “skinny’ jeans.
Oh god. Why.
Why do I care so much...and why do you?
I feel embarrassed that one of the only things that has made me feel better about my struggle is...Oprah. She has it all...money, fame, power...and she STILL goes up and down. I have even thought “Uh oh, there she goes.”...I know..I am also quite guilty of the judgement.
But the fact that she has ALL of those things and battles anyway gives me a small degree of comfort.
But then there is the horrible Kirsty Alley story...she has become an American car wreck. And she is doing her VERY best to spin it...but it is horrible to watch. For me anyway.
he public cannot get enough.
The world gives you one chance at salvation.
Like a movie or a good book.
You get one chance to make yourself over...to kick the habit...to not be something the world disdains...but GOD help you if you take another drink or gain back that weight.
Shouldn’t they have learned the first time?
Back to Oprah.
I was listening to Portia DeRossi talk about her anorexia.
This was about 5 years ago, before the recent Ellen and Portia interview on Oprah. She was making some awesome observations and then said something like “Well, look at Oprah, she has everything a person can want but all I see is a yo yo dieter....”
That froze me...really...this woman has done so MANY amazing things...and THAT is what you see?
I have been big, I have been small...I hope to be smaller again...but I want it not to be at the cost of...well, of....my big self.
Do you know what I mean?
I have been on a diet for about 35 years and I am pretty pooped out.
But...but I try again...I try not to be embarrassed at dinners when I order a salad...to not think that people shit and think “Uh oh, here she goes.”
So, I am in the middle of another little war...
And I am in the middle of one of the biggest things I have ever done in my life.
I know I am not Oprah, but I think I have done some pretty cool things.
And I think that the “World Domination Tour 2010” is one of the coolest.
I even did a photo shoot this week....I was nervous because I wish I was smaller...but I decided to be fine with where I was...my photographer Tracey Nolan got some great shots...and though I agonized a bit over some of my full body shots...I thought "BE enpowered!!!"
I have worked hard to get where I am...wherever that may be...I have put in a ton (not a metric tonne) of hours.
And now to yesterday...

Friday March 19th 2010
Yesterday I went to a commercial audition and tried not to feel fat...and came off alright...struggled with thoughts that my agent might not be sending me out as much because I am bigger.
Came home and sent emails to NY and Scotland...realized I had met all of my goals for this date...a date I had on my calendar...Mar 19th...deadline for Edinburgh Fringe Early Registration...I had a venue and had raised enough funds to put a down payment on it, register for the fringe AND buy an ad in the program. And contacted people about a PR person for my NY dates.
I taught commercial pop performance (one of my biggest passions) and watched young people make great discoveries and do hard work and I felt so blessed.
Some of the students I taught previously came in to audition for my big fund raising benefit...I am featuring up and comers who I have worked with...they did some great stuff and humbled me, making me feel grateful to be a part of their journey.
I sat and ate (every bite in watched meticulously but enjoyed thoroughly) with dear friends and laughed.
I went to meet my husband after his show...as I walked into Betty’s a gentlemen who I didn’t know very well, but who I had welcomed into my home said something loudly in Serbian.
I don’t know it you know...but I DON’T speak serbian...or english very well sometimes for that matter...and just moved on.
I order a green tea...not a wine or beer....and this Serbian gentleman saddled over to me and started engaging me in conversation.
I know I had a smile on my face...I was enjoying myself...then he said....
“When I met you I heard you were a singer...and looking at you I thought she has the warmth and size to be a singer...you know rounder...a bigger woman...stronger....(then here I started to hear a screaming sound in my head and my heart started to beat faster so I misses a couple words so you get the gist)...so I yelled “(something in serbian that I AGAIN didn’t understand)”...you know, it means...”It isn’t over till the fat lady sings”...."
You could have knocked me over with a feather. Again...my whole day...which was mostly fabulous...reduced to this.
And, instead of getting mad, which I am happy to do when someone says something horrible and rude to me...I am ashamed to say...I got embarrassed.
I said it was fine.
I went to see my friend who was across the way.
And then I went to the bathroom and cried.
Good lord. Why did I not call him out?
I went home, quickly, and got into the bath....till 4:00 am.
All of these great things and this one asshole felt confident that he could reduce me to one common, rude phrase.
I went over and over it again in my head.
There is nothing funny about it and nothing I want to crack wise about it.
have not gotten over it yet and I am sure I will carry it through my day.
And please don’t feel bad for me...let me wage my war of weight peacefully as I can...and see me...and know that deep inside I totally dig myself...I just have my moments. And I just wanted to publicly say...
Fuck you, you small, small man. Don’t you know who I think I am.

You have got to be kidding me, people.

I wanted Sandra to win...I never kept it a secret...I crowed it out loud... and when she did I screamed and screamed.
I wish I was her friend...we could drink beers together...just like that beer drinking, pizza eating scene from “Miss Congeniality”.
And.
I have not seen “Precious”...let us not forget that it is based on “Push a novel by Sapphire”...way to go Sapphire's literary agent...hard to say but way to get your shit out there!!!
So, as I said, I have not seen “Precious” but it seems that the world agrees that Gabourey Sidibe is wonderful in it...and maybe she should have won the Oscar...maybe yes, maybe no.
BUT as of this morning they were both actresses were featured in the Crazy Olympics that appeared on my and your computers and in our newspapers.
Everyday, for my fancy news, I go to the Globe and Mail...and sometimes I read Lynn Crosbie...she is sometimes mean, sometimes caustic...but I find some of her articles interesting...and her columnist photo is that of a rock and roll band groupie...which I always find intriguing.
Today, Lynn Crosbie had an article entitled “Sandra Bullock snags a sweetheart deal”...
I got worried...and then as I read it I found that I had every right to be.
Horrible and mean...and written like a person who woke up in the middle of the night after a bottle of wine and wanted to really bitch about the girl who was more popular than her in highschool.
I am not saying she was...that is just how it seems.
Hm.
She refers to people like myself...the lovers of Sandra...in the following paragraph...

“most tabloid gossip involved her rapacious appetite for appalling junk food like Marshmallow Fluff and raw cookie dough, which made her still more endearing, especially to the lonely girls, eating jumbo boxes of Dots in the dark.”

Nice.
I guess all of us girls (and some boys, I am sure) are obese, single, depressed, closet eaters...to be ridiculed for our stupidity.

And Lynn must have a very long and focused hate on for Sandy to recall this...

“And then, in 1995, at the height of her fame and shortly after the (fiscally disappointing) The Net, David Spade, the evil little oracle, did a bit on Saturday Night Live about her. Sean Penn was the guest, and Spade asked him if he had seen “the talking pig movie yet.
Babe had just come out, and Penn said “No.”
“What, you haven’t see The Net?”

Who remembers that??? Who???
And then...just in case you thought she was mincing her words...there was so much more but this...this was the highlight...

“Bullock’s weakness was one bad film, an obvious nose job and status as a single woman, which makes all stars sexually suspect — even the queer, hyphenated Meredith Baxter-Birney knew this."

Can’t you just see the Mean Girl standing there...”Well, she got a fucking nose job...bitch.” And the queer comment...I leave that for you to make your own decisions on...but it ain’t good.
Bitter, petty and mean. That is how is all sounds. And, most sadly, disappointing.
So,Lynn, if that is what you were going for....congrats.
And if that wasn’t enough, then I went to the Star...and there was a bookmarked article with this title.
“Is moment in spotlight over for Precious star Sidibe?”
I hoped to not ever see this sentiment...but knew that the society we live in would not be able to resist.
Since she is big, and she didn’t win the Oscar... like that woman from Gilbert Grape and Hairspray...she was finished.
I cannot even.
And the reason these stereotypes are perpetuated?
People like Howard Stern...who, incidentally, was prominently featured in this article...are you ready?...this isn’t for the faint of heart...

“Stern made the comments on his Sirius Satellite Radio Monday, calling Sidibe “the most enormous fat black chick I’ve ever seen.”
“It’s just ludicrous because everybody is pretending she is part of show business and she’s never going to be in another movie. She really should have got the best actress award because she’s never going to have another ... what movie is she going to be in?”
“It’s so sad, you just want to say to her, ‘Listen honey, now that you’ve got a little money in the bank, go get yourself thin, you’re going to die,’” said Stern, known for his wilting, profanity-laced diatribes."

Wow. I know he is an asshole but this takes it. He is the sort who wishes all women would work out and not eat so they could stay in porn films, where they belong.

That is all that needs be said about Stern.
But, the sentiment is everywhere...fat is a one trick pony...so after you have done your “fat” role and gotten your accolades you better get on the treadmill.

Now, here is where I get mad...did anyone say that to Paul Giamatti after “Sideways”, or Phillip Seymour Hoffman after...well, anything that he has been nominated for?
Some leading men are large, bald, not especially handsome..... and celebrated.
Some of the biggest box office sellers are Seth Rogan, Jack Black and that younger, funnier guy who looks like Seth Rogan...and Will Ferrell.
John Travolta and Alec Baldwin lose and gain weight like the changing of the seasons and they get bigger parts....funnily enough.
"Where is the female version of that" Glenn Sumi said on twitter a couple of weeks ago...I ask the same thing...oh ya...we have to allow it first.
We have to open our fucking minds.
Yes, I am a big girl...I have been a smaller girl...I will be a smaller girl...and probably a bigger girl again...but that is not how I describe myself...I have NEVER let that limit what I can do...the world might do that to me...but I will never do that to myself.
Can’t we get past this...can we get past being embarrassed because we enjoy or are entertained by something that is supposedly “low brow” or “chick flicks” or “chick lit”...can we allow all people to be artists? Can we at least let them try?
And can women stop bashing each other?
AND DID ANYONE MENTION ANYTHING about men at the Oscars? How they looked, why they did or didn’t win...how Steve Martin has had OBVIOUS (there you go Lynn) facial surgery? I don’t give a shit...but have they?
No, let us focus on the nice and the large.
Goodness gracious, jesus wept.

Sharron Matthews Superstar!!! World Domination Tour 2010

After being named

“Best Cabaret Performer”
what does a girl do?
Well, If her name is Sharron Matthews, she embarks on her World Domination Tour 2010!

From 2005 to 2009 in Toronto, Canada, the “Inimitable” Sharron Matthews created, wrote and hosted the “ Hottest ticket in town ”, the wildly successful Sharron’s Party! Her live variety show featured Canada’s most talented and celebrated singers, actors, TV personalities, newspaper columnists, playwrights, writers, comedians and composers.
During the entire run the press and audiences raved!!!

“Capable of selling any song like it is prime downtown real estate”
John Coulbourne, Toronto Sun

"Live-wire who electrifies the cabaret scene.”
Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star

“the kind of performer who can only sound but fabulous” Xtra magazine

In 2009, after being named “Best Cabaret Performer” by Toronto’s Now Magazine (the same publication that named her show “Critic’s Pic” a staggering 20 times!) Sharron decided it was time to take her show on the road with...

Sharron Matthews Superstar!
World Domination Tour 2010

TORONTO
“Sharron Matthews Superstar: World Domination Tour 2010 KICK OFF Fundraiser!”
Sharron kicks off her tour with a huge Fundraiser!!!
On Friday April 16th and Saturday April 17th @ 8:00 pm Sharron will take to the stage at her beloved Buddies in Bad Times to raise funds her world tour....guests, surprises, AN ALL NEW SHOW!!! What a weekend this will be...Sharron’s first show at Buddies in almost a year...it will be a doozy! She has a lot to say, people!
Tickets are a special fundraising price of $30.00.
There is an arts and student discount ticket for $20.00
www.artsexy.ca

NEW YORK
On Saturday June 5th @ 7:00 pm and Sunday June 6th @ 9:30 pm Sharron will be making her New York cabaret debut at the legendary Joe’s Pub. Yes, she will! Newsweek calls Joe’s Pub "one of the country's best small stages" and New York Magazine raves “you never know what you’ll find next at Joe’s Pub, but you can count on the fact that it will be good, very good." Well....Sharron will step on the stage that has been graced by the likes of Leonard Cohen, Alicia Keys, Sutton Foster and fricken Bono. Tickets are $20.00 and you can go to http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5106 for info!!!

EDINBURGH
In August Sharron will take her World Domination Tour 2010 over the pond, people!!!
“Sharron Matthews Superstar” hits the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from August 16th to August 28th at the Surgeon’s Hall.
CAN YOU TAKE IT?!?!?!?
Go here to check out the venue... http://www.thespaceuk.com/edinburgh/venue53-info
I went for an intimate space with a fabu location!
And this is the Fringe website!
www.edfringe.com

More dates to follow!!!

Sharron Matthews Superstar: World Domination Tour 2010 is produced by Sharron Matthews and C. Derrick Chua, and is supported by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, North America’s largest queer theatre company.

www.sharronmatthews.com

Sharron is going out to shine a light on our fabulous Canadian Cabaret Community!
If you find yourself overwhelmed with excitement and would like to donate to this fabulous project email Sharron at me@sharronmatthews.com
and she will send you a package!
Every dollar helps!

An Olympic Thought

I love the Olympics.
I didn't get to watch them much this year, and that was a sad turn of events...but I liked even knowing that they were happening. Kinda like how when I was growing up I might not have seen my Grama all night because she was holed up in her room doing macrame but I knew she was in the house and that made me feel safe and warm.
I would sit in front of our stereo/tv console for the whole two weeks ...two in the summer and two in the winter..,when the summer and the winter games would happen in the same year...that feels like a million years ago now!
Do you guys remember that?
I recall feeling a bit dejected that we NEVER seemed to win any medals...not as many as Russia...
Watching what I could of these Olympics...though I would rather sit in a pile of poo than do any cross country skiing event...I felt involved and felt like Canada had done something special. I know you are all saying "Well, duh, Sharron." But it beats mentioning again that we went from NEVER winning a gold medal on our own soil to winning the most gold medals by a host country. I mean, COME ON!
During the eighties Canadian organizers and coaches talked on and on about how we needed to invest in these atheletes...as communities and local governments...federal governments and companies...and it happened ...and we are finally seeing the fruits of all of that funding and attention.
All I can think of...is this...what if we did the same thing for the arts in Canada?
Imagine what we could accomplish.
Sigh.