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Comedian-chanteuse at Shadbolt

She's described as a "downtown diva" who's one part stand-up comedian and one part chanteuse - and she's coming to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Sharron Matthews is serving up a musical comedy cabaret at the Shadbolt on Oct. 21 and 22.

She's described as a "downtown diva" who's one part stand-up comedian and one part chanteuse - and she's coming to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Sharron Matthews is serving up a musical comedy cabaret at the Shadbolt on Oct. 21 and 22.

"Sharon combines her powerful voice and comedic wit to create pop medleys, sing-alongs and song-o-logues that will have the audience roaring with laughter and crooning along," a press release says. "Sharon's bawdy humour, dazzling costumes and distinctive voice have earned her comparisons to the 'other' Divine Miss M - Bette Midler."

Matthews' musical repertoire ranges from contemporary pop and standards to ballads and musical theatre showstoppers.

Her 20-plus-year career has included performing in the biggest musicals in North America, singing with symphonies, providing the voices of animated characters, writing and performing her own shows and cabarets, and appearing in movies and television.

Matthews may be familiar as "Joan the Secretary" from the movie Mean Girls, in which she appeared alongside Lindsay Lohan.

She has also had featured roles on screen in Cinderella Man, Take the Lead, Kojak, Hairspray and the Disney movie The Music Man.

On stage, she appeared as Mme. Thénardier in Les Misérables in Toronto and on a North American tour, and she has also appeared in Showboat, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz and Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

"Sharron Matthews is like a champagne cocktail . one with extra fizz," is how The Hamilton Spectator described her.

For more about Matthews, see www.sharronmatthews.com.

Her two shows are at 8 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at the Shadbolt, 6450 Deer Lake Ave.

For tickets, see www.shadbolt centre.com or call the box office at 604-205-3000.

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