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She has been described as \u201ceffervescent,\u201d her Party has been hailed \u201cperfection,\u201d and I was very lucky to chat with the very gorgeous, consistently lovely and outrageously talented Sharron Matthews on Sunday afternoon. Her career is a series of showstoppers. She has shared the stage with Colm Wilkinson, Elaine Stritch and Robert Morse, the silver screen with John Travolta, Lindsay Lohan and Zac Efron and most recently she hosted the Dora Awards! Her one-woman show Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em> is a medley of songs, stories, guests, interviews, games, a sing-along and lots of laughs. You especially never know who will drop by for Sharron\u2019s Surprise Party<\/em>, which happens Monday, January 19th, 2009 at Tallulah\u2019s Cabaret at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Sharron welcomes guests Thom Allison and Andrew Broderick. And she sings away the January blues.<\/p>\n

Sharron Matthews (SM): Thanks for interviewing me! I love being interviewed!<\/p>\n

Amanda Campbell (AC): You\u2019re welcome! I\u2019m glad. Thanks for agreeing to do it! My first question is, you\u2019ve been doing Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em> since 2005, and I was wondering how the idea for the Party first came about?<\/p>\n

SM: Um, well, in 2001\u2026 (a Space Odyssey) Tyley Ross and I were doing the show Outrageous<\/em> together. You\u2019re probably too young to have been here for Outrageous<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

AC: Yeah…<\/p>\n

SM: Well, he told me about his idea for the East Village Opera- that he and his friend were going to have an orchestra playing a combination of opera and rock, and now they\u2019re up for Grammys and stuff. And he asked me, \u201cSharron, what\u2019s your big, dream idea? What\u2019s your million dollar idea?\u201d And I said, \u201cWell, I\u2019ve always wanted to do like a Late Night Talk Show format and instead of having a monologue, I would do variations of things in song. And there would be guests of all sorts of performers in Toronto, and up-and-coming actors and singers, and audience interaction…\u201d And he was like, \u201cI\u2019ll put you in my palm pilot and I\u2019ll call you in a year and see if we are both working on our projects.\u201d And when I started to talk to people about the idea, everyone said it would never work. And I got a little bummed. And when Tyley called me a year later he said, \u201cAre you working on that project?\u201d And I told him, \u201cNo, I\u2019m going to need some more time to work it out.\u201d But then when I started to work at Statler\u2019s I knew that I needed to start working on my idea.<\/p>\n

AC: You have had so many great guests on Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em>, from musical theatre stars like Thom Allison, to Teresa Pavlinek who is a comedic genius, and Jean Stillwell sings opera\u2026 how do you pick who gets to be a guest on your show?<\/p>\n

SM: Basically, I\u2019ll go see people work. I\u2019ll go see anything. A comedy show, a young person\u2019s cabaret\u2026 I went to Bitch Salad (at Buddies in Bad Times) hosted by Andrew Johnston, and I saw Teresa Pavlinek there and I knew I just had to have her on my show. They just have to be able to work their bit into a ten-minute segment to be able to work on my show, whether that\u2019s comedy, or opera, like you said. They just have to be awesome, and it\u2019s not hard to find awesome people here in Toronto.<\/p>\n

AC: You mentioned going to see young people\u2019s cabarets, can you talk a little bit about why it\u2019s important for there to be a space for young theatre artists to get an opportunity to perform and get that sort of exposure in a cabaret setting?<\/p>\n

SM: Well I think when I was coming up in the\u2026 early nineties, there was so much more opportunity and space for young people to perform. There was the Limelight Dinner Theatre, and there was more regional theatre for us to work with, and things like, Barb Barsky\u2019s company was doing Assassins<\/em>\u2026 there were about three or four spaces where you could go do cabaret. We had so many more opportunities to work than young people do today. All of the people who would have been working in town in the 90s are now working out of town. And I think, it was when I had Kyle Golemba on my show, he was one of the first talented, young performers I had on there, and I asked him what his dream for the year was and he said, \u201cI just want to book a gig.\u201d That\u2019s when I realized that these performers need a space to A. get experience, and for people to come and see them. But also that they needed to see that there are more chances out there for them. You don\u2019t have to wait for someone else to get you a gig; you can do Cabaret too. I think it\u2019s so important for young people to have these opportunities; it\u2019s one of my favourite things about my show.<\/p>\n

AC: What is the best part of doing Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em> that keeps you doing new shows again and again?<\/p>\n

SM: The writing of the new stuff. Creating the songologues. Hearing two songs and thinking \u201coh! These songs go together!\u201d And getting to watch the audience as they are like \u201cIs that \u201cHotel California?\u201d \u201cIs she going to sing \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d?\u201d There\u2019s that great moment where the audience really gets what I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n

AC: Do you have a most memorable Party moment?<\/p>\n

SM: Oh god! There are so many! *laughs* Well, introducing Brent Carver. Actually, there was a moment before that show, Grant Ramsay, my publicist and a big supporter of Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em>, we were watching Brent Carver and he said, \u201cSharron, look how far you\u2019ve come!\u201d And there\u2019s also the story I told on my blog (www.sharronmatthews.com\/blog<\/a>) where Brent sang \u201cTen Cents a Dance\u201d on my show, which was one of the first songs I\u2019d ever heard him sing, and one of the things that made me realize that I could get into Cabaret too. Also, interviewing Thom Allison, because we are such good friends, that\u2019s always fun. And I loved watching the audience while Jeigh Madjus sang\u2026 I have a lot of them, Amanda!<\/p>\n

AC: I understand. I have a lot even from just watching some of the shows on youtube! I read that you started tap dancing when you were five, and that you had this innate desire to perform, and I was wondering if you performed for your parents and family and friends as a child, and if these performances took on a Cabaret style?<\/p><\/div>\n

SM: Yeah, because they were all different. I would sing a little, and then I would twirl my baton. I didn\u2019t take any lessons, but I thought I was pretty good at it. I kept getting bumped and bruised\u2026 and I would tap a little, and do some ballet. And my Mom would always make me sing a song at the end from one of the shows that I did. She would be like, \u201cSharron, now sing something from The Wiz<\/em>.\u201d And that\u2019s where the audience participation in my shows came from. I was actually talking about this with Thom Allison on the phone the other day, even from the time I was young, I always wanted to play myself. As great as the big musical shows have been, I\u2019d always just rather be me.<\/p>\n

AC: That\u2019s really cool.<\/p>\n

SM: Yeah, thank God, eh? *laughs*<\/p>\n

AC: You\u2019ve said that Buddies [In Bad Times Theatre Company] is really the perfect place for your show. Can you talk a little bit about why you feel that way?<\/p>\n

SM: Buddies really gets what I do. The Gladstone Hotel was also great. They stepped up when Buddies was so busy and booked up\u2026 but the people at Buddies, Glen and Pat behind the bar, to the people in the box office, when I come back, they always say, \u201cSharron\u2019s home!\u201d And as a solo performer, you are always selling yourself and it is so refreshing for me to have a place where I don\u2019t have to sell myself. I\u2019ve already been sold. I feel so welcome there, and\u2026 anticipated, and I mean that in the least conceited of ways. It\u2019s so good for your heart, right? To feel like you don\u2019t have to sell yourself, that you are so welcome. And the audience there too, they always get what I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n

AC: I read on your blog what you said about your experience with Sky Gilbert\u2019s play Happy<\/em>, and on there you said that you felt \u201cavant-garde,\u201d how does creating a new Canadian piece differ from doing a revival of something that has already been done?<\/p>\n

SM: Well, there\u2019s no comparison. Everything is fresh. No one else has interpreted that story or that character before and so the door is open. Even if only one other person has done a show before you, you come in and the director, or the actors have some sort of preconceived notion of how the story is supposed to go and who these people are. And Sky writes so\u2026 stylistically\u2026 he writes very over-the-top\u2026 not always, but in this case, you couldn\u2019t go too high, and for my style of performing, that was just like going into a play land. When you\u2019re doing a new show, it means that you have a book that is empty and you can write any story you want in there with the guidance of your director. With a revived show, there is all this writing in the margins, but with a new show you have an empty book.<\/p>\n

AC: I wish I could have seen Happy<\/em>. I can\u2019t remember now why I couldn\u2019t make it\u2026<\/p>\n

SM: I loved every night of doing that show. And the audience was so close- for a stage play- and that was challenging. And we were eliciting strong responses. Some people loved the show; some people hated it. And I loved going there every night to see which way that audience was going to respond, you never knew which way they were going to go.<\/p>\n

AC: I heard that it was Elaine Stritch who pushed you to keep trying to forge a cabaret scene in Toronto. Do you think it\u2019s beneficial for Canadian performers to have the opportunity to work with and learn from the giants in the industry, like Elaine Stritch?<\/p>\n

SM: Yeah, it\u2019s priceless. The experience that they have is just a well\u2026 Elaine is- well, she\u2019s got to be over eighty now- she\u2019d hate me for saying that- but she would talk about going to dinner with Cy Coleman\u2026 She just always seemed to have a, not a catch-phrase\u2026 I would go into her dressing room and I would be worrying about what I was going to do, and how I was going to do it, and she would say to me, \u201cI have learned in this life, not to worry about the future moments, but just to focus on right this moment.\u201d She\u2019d always have something like that. But if you asked her, \u201cwhat do you think about this?\u201d She\u2019d say, \u201cOh, what do I know?\u201d She would never make you think she knew everything. Even just getting to watch people work is amazing. Like John Travolta. Or In Cinderella Man<\/em>, watching Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger and Ron Howard working together as a unit\u2026 these are people at the top of their game. They got to the top somehow; it\u2019s not just a fluke. And so working with them, and watching what they\u2019re doing\u2026 something has to rub off on you.<\/p>\n

AC: Do you think Canadian producers should work to try to bring in some of these theatre giants so they can work alongside the talented people here in Toronto?<\/p>\n

SM: Uhhh, I feel so torn about that. As much as I appreciate and am grateful for the experiences I have had so much, I think we have to build up our own actors to be like Elaine Stritch and those types of stars. And we will never build up our own luminaries until we start casting them in our own shows. It\u2019s about instead of saying, \u201clet\u2019s hire Elaine Stritch\u201d saying, \u201clet\u2019s hire Sheila McCarthy…\u201d We have been saying in our circle here for years that we need to make our own stars. So\u2026 I think yes and no is the answer to your question.<\/p>\n

AC: I go on http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/<\/a> and I see a big picture of Len Cariou, and an article about George [Masswohl] and I wonder why Canadian theatre stars don\u2019t get even that much publicity here\u2026<\/p>\n

SM: I think that THE most important thing- besides working on [a show]- is getting it out there. Especially the stuff that isn\u2019t Mirvish or DanCap. We need to publicize actors outside of the shows. That\u2019s like, when Michael Burgess did those huge musicals, the first really big ones in Toronto after Cats<\/em>, he was the first to go out and hire a publicist and he made himself a star. That\u2019s why I do my web shows, I\u2019m trying to reach out to as many people as I can because it\u2019s all about developing a new audience. But publicity has to be more accessible to us and I don\u2019t know how to make that happen. I just do what I do in my grass-roots way, but I know there is a way to do it, I just don\u2019t know what it is.<\/p>\n

AC: Can you say a few words about Rob Roy<\/em>?<\/p>\n

SM: *Laughs* Well, we don\u2019t quite know where it is right now. We know that Chicago has been cancelled and we know that David Warrwack is working hard to raise the money for Toronto. He lost one of his backers at the 11th hour\u2026 and the last thing we need is another Canadian musical scandal. But it\u2019s a great show, and, as you have seen, the cast is phenomenal, and that\u2019s why every actor is still in. We\u2019ll know more in the next week or so. But, like I said, we really don\u2019t need another Canadian musical scandal\u2026<\/p>\n

AC: No, no we don\u2019t. Um, I heard that you and [your husband] George [Masswohl] once did a Cabaret together? <\/p><\/div>\n

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SM: Yes, we did!<\/p>\n

AC: Any chance of you doing that again?<\/p>\n

SM: Umm, I don\u2019t know. Never say never. It\u2019s just that George is always so busy. Because I\u2019m doing Cabaret gigs, my schedule is more flexible, and that\u2019s sort of how our relationship works. He\u2019s doing more of the steady shows, while I\u2019m working as a solo performer, so that if we\u2019re apart, I\u2019m able to go to him. But, if he ever got a block of time off, we might do it again. So the answer to your question is, maybe.<\/p>\n

AC: Have you ever thought of taking Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em> out of Ontario?<\/p>\n

SM: Yeah, that\u2019s what I\u2019m working on right now. My dream is one day, and I said this jokingly at the Dora\u2019s, but I really meant it, to walk onstage at the Winter Garden in Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em>. It\u2019s all about getting from A to B and I\u2019m working on it right now.<\/p>\n

AC: You mentioned before that one of the sources for Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em> was late night talk shows, would you ever considering doing a show like that on television?<\/p>\n

SM: Oh, definitely. I put out a treatment, a television treatment right after I started the show, and it got a second look by CBC and CTV, but the idea wasn\u2019t fully formed yet. I\u2019m going to start working on another one again soon. I mean, I think there is a market for the sort of show I do on television. Not everyone wants to watch George Stephanopoulos, not that he\u2019s not great, but there\u2019s another sort of audience there. I think I can fill the lowbrow TV quota. *laughs*<\/p>\n

AC: *laughs* On your blog you usually promote the things that you love. So, right at this moment, what is your favourite musical?<\/p>\n

SM: Right at this moment my favourite musical is _title of show<\/em>_.<\/p>\n

AC: Right at this moment what is your favourite TV Show?<\/p>\n

SM: Right at this moment my favourite TV Show is The Graham Norton Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

AC: I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever even heard of that\u2026<\/p>\n

SM: Oh my God! I talked about this in my last web show. Go to youtube and put in \u201cGraham Norton Speed Dating,\u201d it is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life! I almost peed my pants!<\/p>\n

AC: *laughs* Right at this moment what is your favourite song?<\/p>\n

SM: Right at this moment my favourite song is\u2026 ooh\u2026 what song have I been listening to over and over? Oh. It\u2019s \u201cSo What\u201d by Pink. Yeah. That\u2019s my favourite song.<\/p>\n

AC: A lot of the readers on my blog are young musical theatre performers and I was wondering if you have any wisdom to impart to those who have dreams about making it in the business…<\/p>\n

SM: Oh my god, don\u2019t leave any avenue unexplored\u2026 don\u2019t leave any stone uncovered. Don\u2019t take anyone else\u2019s word about what you can or cannot do. Only you know what you can or cannot do. Oh, and George [Masswohl] just said, don\u2019t let anyone take it from you. There are so many people around every corner who will tell you that you can\u2019t do what you want, and that you\u2019re not tall enough, or too fat, or not blond enough… There is room for everyone. Like I said before, people told me that Sharron\u2019s Party would never work, and now we\u2019re in our fourth year. Don\u2019t let other people dictate to you. And come and see Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em>!!! *laughs*<\/p>\n

Indeed, yes! Come to Buddies and join the Party! Sharron\u2019s just the surprise your January needs!
Sharron\u2019s Party<\/em>. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. 12 Alexander Street. Toronto. Call 416 975 8555 for tickets.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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