Already two weeks away!

I am not believing the calendar as I look at it and see that the next show is only two weeks away!

Holy shit!

I got shit to do!

But let us not forget the last show!!!

What a night!

Could I use more exclamation marks?................................... !

The day was wonderful with my Hairspray rehearsal and meeting John Travolta and all.

My ass was killing me from all of the dancing, real dancing with jumps and shit.

Anyway...I got to the Gladstone in tons of time and got the guests soundchecked and all!

By the time 7:15 rolled around the lobby was so packed that we decided to open the doors so as not to have a back up.

It was our biggest crowd yet!

We were just so happy with the turn out and how it seems to get more different kinds of people from all walks of life.

There were surprises on and off stage.....during my last number I thought I heard someone say something about my nipples....can you imagine?....and so I decided to stop and ask what was going on and then I sang a whole nother song....how can you sing a ballad after someone comments on your nipples?

I ask you.

Short form the night!.........

Songologue was called " 20 Pounds" all about my wieght struggles and everyone elses struggle with my weight.

Featured the songs "Bitch", "Unpretty", "Fatso" and " Bushel and a Peck" from Guys and Dolls.

Eclectic, no?

Had some sweeties up for the game.

Fab was one of our contestants.....and was just that.. fab..he was easy on the eyes and wrote me a very nice email after the fact.

isn't that nice?

The Bittergirls were up and we tried a whole new thing....with the interview and all and finished with us singing " Enough Is Enough" .....Babs and Miz Summer would have been proud.

Thom Allison sang " I am Changing".....need I say more?

He needs to be doin' his own thing.....I have a link to his website on my links page at sharronmatthews.com

Write him and tell him so!

Then the surprise.....drum roll....

Steve Ross.....he burned up the stage with " Someone to Fall Back On" by Jason Robert Brown....then told some killer stories.....Fat Jesus.....oh my I laughed more than I talked.....I had alot of fun with my guests and again felt so lucky to have the friends that I have.......

I announced the rest of the dates this year and talked about our TShirt campaign.

You can get a "Sharron's Bitch" Tshirt for 15 bucks and all the money goes to our live CD that we are planning.

Patrick had been wearing the original around and getting comments about it so we thought ...why the frick not?

After the big show I ran home and got into bed ......got picked up by 7:50 am and was on set of the new CBC comedy " Altar Boy Gang" by 9:00am.

I felt very fancy and very blessed and .......very fancy.

Linda Kash, you will remember her from "Guffman" where she played Eugene Levy's wife, Mrs. Pearl........she is one of the leads on this show.

She and I did the Music Man movie together so I was very happy to be there with her. It always makes doing a few days on something a bit more free and fun....and I think this show is pretty funny.

I am playing a Catholic League Woman.....that is my title.....again......playing type......or no? I have decided to name myself Susan.

What the frick, eh? Not that I am method or anything....just nice to have a name......

Anyway......I felt a little fried by the time I finished yesterday but....again....I felt pretty happy.

It has been an amazing whirlwind of a couple of days.

And tomorrow I awake and begin the work again!

It is my birthday show on the 18th.....I forgot to say that.....so it will be my favourite stuff.

Wooo wooooo!

Hope we are packed to the rafters!

Summer Party had me all excited!

I am soooo excited!

I feel like it is back to school time tomorrow and it kinda is.

To make my day even more exciting I start rehearsals for Hairspray tomorrow morning....kinda wish it was another day, but ah well, I am gonna be like a little puppy on Tuesday.....all pooped out.

I have been working my ass off all week to bring you the goods......I think that we are gonna have some fun.

and my Mom is coming so it we could cap the dirty language.....oh wait.....I forgot that one of my fave words is m#^&*rf+@?#*r .... that so wrong.

Yesterday I was running my Songologue for Mary Francis Moore ...the awesome director and Bittergirl ...at the park and I became a little freaked that I will sing and do my thing anywhere....I have no shame..

What else.....wait till you see our new swag...Thom will be selling his CD's and the Bittergirls are gonna help us learn to get dumped and be awesome ....at the same time.....

Is Gravol addictive?

It is 12:50pm.
My Mom went to bed on the living room couch......don't judge me harshly....it is a great and comfy couch.....at 10:00pm and I was relegated to my bedroom like a teenager.
But I used the time to read some more of the "Bittergirl" book ...oh dear...I have been laughing out loud and you all know that I only truly do that when I watch America's Funniest....so it has gotta be good.
The show is coming up soon and I gotta say....I am excited....so much so that I haven't been able to get to sleep for the last few nights.
Yup....just like before the first day of school. It really is gonna be a fun show....new stuff.....
I went to Fashion Crimes today...fuck I love it there.
I got two AWESOME outfits.
I brought my Mom with me...she couldn't get over all of the clothes and the women who help me.....I always feel so sexy in those clothes......whew.
So....after trying to sleep .....I am just not getting sleepy....so I cracked half a Gravol.....is that so wrong.......does it make me a drug addict?
I thought that I might come here and write something down to my faithful 3 readers.
How are all three of you?
I have an audition tomorrow for a film........I am playing a woman who runs a daycare centre....wow....have they ever got me pegged wrong.....but I am an actress...sigh.
Two words before I go on.
Rock....star!
Awesome.....Dilana is going bad ...which is sad cause I really liked her...but now I am hoping that Magni will win...he reminds me of George. Watch it....it rocks!
Survivor.
Weird.
Just read that they are separating everyone into groups based on race.
Ew.
How is that gonna work out?
Am I done with it now.
Random Gravol induced thoughts.......
Why is it suddenly winter?
If you blow your nose ....do you lose weight?
When will "Lost" start again?
When will the Gravol kick in?
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

OOOPIE!

Sorry guys.....the Bittergirls website is

thebittergirls.com

that is the place you should go to....

if you don't get this go down one blog entry and it will all make sense!

Bittergirl!!!

Hey Bloggers,

I have a mission for you!!!

The Bittergirls.... Alison Lawrence, Mary Francis Moore....Annabel Griffiths cannot come as she is quite pregnant.......(check out their website bittergirls.com )

are coming to Sharron's Party on August 28th ...they know all about being dumped and are not afraid to talk about it.....they have had a hugely successful number of runs of their show, wrote a book, were on the Today show to promote it and are now developing it even more......I wanna ask them some questions but more importantly I want you to ask them some questions .....sooooo... bloggers.....go and and get their book....read their website and give me some questions to ask them!!!

We had a little meeting today and gosh am I excited to have them.......they are great....we talked about clothes forever and Patrick just looked confused.....ah Girls.......

So.......get on it!!!

Or Get down on it!

It is gonna be awesome!

Write them here or email me via my website...sharronmatthews.com!

Ta.

Fancy Pants

Well, I don't usually mentions articles.......but Paul pointed out that I had glossed over that fact in my blog yesterday....as I said to him....... I am always terrified that I will come off like an ass so I like to read it first.

Very Happy.....Rita Zekas did a great job...I really like the way she coins a phrase and we had a great time doing the interview part at the Rivoli...she is very nice and we were chatting like girlfriends. It was a great day and I am happy that Fashion Crimes got such a great spread...they are the best....

One problem....when I read and article for the first time I usually skim it......by the time I got halfway down the page I thought...."Who is Paul?"

Oh god.

Oh no.

Patrick.

I called him by his name.

She wrote it twice....and once with ME saying it in a sentence.....ah Diva...that is what I call him...the unsung hero of the Party.

He took it way better than I would have.....I hope he isn't smashing down on the inside!

Now, at the next show we will all let him know how great he is....although Thom Allison thinks we should address him as his alter ego....Paul Burtman. When I want something.... and he doesn't do it...I should say " Paul Burtman would do it."

!

?

Maybe that Is only funny to Thom and I.

Summer Lovin' Had Me Stuffed up!

ALRIGHT!
Why allergies now?

My eyes are puffed out like marshmallows...mmmm.... marchmallows......

And out at Fran's a couple days ago Susan Gilmour informed me that it was Ragweed season...well...eff that.

Anyhoo....all is well....the show is in a bit of time....super excited.

I was practicing the sing-a-long in my car today on the highway and had numerous people staring at me....I don't care!!! It is gonna be a great one.

George just called me from Scotland where he is at the Edinburgh Festival.... fancy....he is playing the lead in "Rob Roy " there.

Sign.

I miss him.

Though he called me on my cell phone....that must have cost us a freakin' fortune!

I couldn't go to Scotland 'cause have to take care of our hundred year old puppy .....and rehearse for the Hairspray Movie!!! Woo Hoo!!

I am excited..... I start shooting in September!

Patrick and I have a big surpirse for you at the next show....I wanna give it away but.........I will wait!! It is super, though.

( it has nothing what so ever to do with Hairspray...I don't wanna hear any bitchin' about John Travolta not showing up)

We are getting ready to release all the info about the next block of dates and guests!!!! That will be at the next party on Monday August 28th!

Other than that I am chillin' ....really not alot of time for that, really.

See y'all!

Theatre in Toronto?

Ya know how I don't like to go on about my big show that happens at the Gladstone once a month, this month it happens on August 28th....it is three weeks away....and I feature some of the most talented artists in Canada, if not the world and I wear some of the snatchiest dresses?....Recall how I don't like to chat about that?

Well, I am just starting to work on it right now and something has changed in my life due to it!

Before the big show I barely ever saw theatre.

I have been doing it professionally for 23, gasp, years and I just started to detest going to see it....funny that.

Well, Sharron's Party started and the artists who have come and supported me have been so great that I started to think, " I better go support them, too".....also, I think it is good to have current theatre gossip in the show....

So, off I go.

I have to say that I have been having the time off my life.

When I was doing the big musicals downtown my week was so full of sequins that the last thing I wanted on my day off was to be shoved into a small room and see a bunch of actors "workshoping" something.

I have seen big and small....about 5 shows a month since I started in March and though our big theatre is in dire straits I think it is inspiring some great work elsewhere.

I spent time at the Fringe, something I never did till I did my horrible, horrible, horriblbe Fringe show last year, and I had a blast....so creative and inovative and if the didn't work....who cares...it is interesting and informs and inspirses others to so new things.

Even my crappy fringe piece of shit.

This week I went and saw two shows at Summerworks.

The Review, written by Adam Pettle, Allana Harkin and Jonathon Monro. Starring Andrew Kushnir, Sarah Cornell and my husband ( in the interest of full disclosure) George Masswohl.

I had a blast. I love seeing artists challenging themselves..I think that in Toronto musical performers ( we are loud and proud) don't get enough chances to exercise their considerable talents doing new, interesting and maybe avant garde works.

You can go and pay 10 dollars and see three fanastic performers playing ....it was a treat.

Yesterday, I went to see "Letters to Kathleen" written by Brendan Wall and his sister Fiona starring Brendan, the fantastic Mary Francis Moore ( she is my new best friend) and Geoffrey Pounsett.

Now, usually I don't like seeing the shows that don't have songs....but a good Irish story is the next best thing.

By the end ....there I was weepin'.

I felt very inspired by both of these experiences.

People are out there being more than actors, not that you have to ...being an actor is more than enough to fill the brain....

but they are acting, writing, producing, directing.....and in Mary Francis and Brendan's case (I passed by their little son Finbar...I am sure that is not the way you spell it...... on the way into the show and he was being told that Mommy and Daddy were going to play just like he was) raising a family.

Oh yes....I am filled with the joy that is the theatre.

Also, I am just so excited because " Slings and Arrows" just started again on TMN.

And if it could get even more awesome then the last two times....well.....it is.

Lovin' it.

Bike Ride

So, I decide that since I have to take a trip to Yonge and Bloor I will not pay for parking or the subway..I will ride my bike.
Very economical and environmentally concious of me, non?
I pat myself on the back as I ride away from my house ( which is hard on a bike...yuck yuck...I am above that humour ) on my awesome silver bike that George bought for me.
The sky is overcast but I remain positive.....as I cross the Bloor Viaduct it begins to sprinkle. I have lived in Vancouver....so what! Then as I get closer to my destination it begins to rain a bit more.....by the time I try...yes..I said try to lock my bike up I am a bit waterlogged. But I remain positive all throught the 10 MINUTES it takes me to lock my bike. Eff off.
By the time my appointment is done I decide to wait out the slight drizzle....maybe it will stop.
I check messages and mess with my palm pilot ....blah blah blah. So, I wait twenty minutes...this is important in the telling of this tedious story.......I get on Flash, that is the secret name I have for my bike...yes, I am 37 years old but I must remain young is some ways.....and start the ride home. Twenty minutes...yup here it is....before the end of the ride the skies open....I can't even see the rain is pelting so hard....and if I can't see I don't trust the drivers so I pull my bike into the doorway of a wedding shop. The old greek lady wo runs it comes to the door and shakes her head disapprovingly. I smile and shrug while mentally I am giving her the finger.
Wait....nothing much happened but my lame bike ride....I just bored myself but feel that I must publish this anyway.
I will write more exciting things, I promise.
One question...does anyone dislike Star Jones as much as me?

Hot as shit.

Is there any other way to put it? I mean I know I have the potty mouth but it is so effing hot...I have never seen Toronto so grummpy... and we are a grummpy people..not as grummpy as New York.

Can you imagine what it is like there right now?

Can you?

Can you???!!!

I went for a bike ride yesterday...wait before you judge me....I waited till 5:00pm...and I still broke out in a heat rash after...attractive, no?

And what better thing to do when you are in the hottest weather on record...

Yes, my loves, on record....I wonder when they started recording?

.....anyway, I digress, what better to do then.....dress in upscale,mother casual ( for those of you who are not actors that means khaki's and a v-neck shirt with sensible shoes) and go to an audition for a Ikea commercial.

Fun, wow?

I sat there meditating on how not to sweat and trying to ignore the hell out of the woman who is staring at me with hate in her eyes because I scored the seat underneath the air conditioning vent.

And beside me the girl who needs to eat a burger is talking too loudly about her recent months in L.A.

"There is so much more going on there!"

Oh ya...why did you come back?

Oh my....I am very cranky......due to the heat..ya that is it...the heat.

Everyone there had straight TV hair.

Do you know how hard it is for a curly haired girl to get straight TV hair in 38 degree heat?

I eschewed it!

I had hair that Shirley Temple-Black would look at and drop her conservative-ness for a moment and say

"That is some fucking curlyhair.....bitch."

Anyway, I went in and did my bit and went to the gym.

I am not liking the gym right now.

I am going but I am not liking.

I hope it will pass.

Maybe I'll take a class or something.

My dog is staring at me right now like the heat is my fault.

I did not watch Canadina Idol last night.

I read a book while George did.

I caught some of it out of the corner of my eye.

Embarassed!

Cindy Lauper....why did you come here?

Ug....I am sorry Junior but Stephie D?

Come on?

I await Rockstar tonight!

Love that show!