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January 2014

THEATRE • DANCE • MUSIC • COMEDY • EXPERIENCE IT LIVE!

Embarks on a New PathROSANNE CASH

Get your funk on withTOWER of POWER

Hilarious Heavy Metal Comedy for Families

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The Magazine of the Rose Theatre Brampton

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IN THE GALLERY

Doors of Hope is a massive social arts project, created by Brampton youth in

collaboration with hundreds of youth across the GTA, raising awareness about the

power of charity and hope.

Each door is a canvas of art exploring the theme of hope within the context of

Catholic Charities and its 27 member agencies, such as Mary Centre Peel, Catholic

Family Services Peel Dufferin and Covenant House.

Brampton Catholic high schools Cardinal Ambrozic, Cardinal Leger, Holy Name

of Mary and St. Edmunds Campion, along with 11 schools in Mississauga from the

Dufferin Peel Catholic School Board, collaborated with schools from the Toronto,

York and Durham Catholic school boards in this large-scale arts project involving 55

schools from across the Greater Toronto Area.

Doors of Hope debuted at 2013 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, North America’s largest

contemporary arts festival.

“Doors of Hope is a project for the whole family to enjoy and an excellent way to

empower and celebrate our youth and artists of tomorrow,” said Dr. Sara Diamond,

President OCAD and Chair of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche’s Advisory Committee.

What is YOUR message of hope? What doors of hope can YOU open for others?

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TheCOMEDY

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inston spear may be at his funniest when he’s not saying anything at all. Oh, the Toronto-based comedian is plenty funny when he’s tossing out jokes and quirky observations — but there’s a whole other dimension to his comedic performance. And a performance, it is. “I have a number of different dances I do,” he says, deadpan. Dances? What kind of dances? “All kinds of dances. There’s one Bollywood dance that’s really popular,” he says with a sneaky laugh. “I’ll definitely be doing that in Brampton.” Spear will be performing as part of the Rose Theatre’s Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Series. A comedian who got his start in high school cracking jokes at assemblies about coffee machines, Spear has come a long way with his stand-up or, perhaps more

accurately, his stand-up-dance-off-mash-up. He went to college where he studied theatre and dance — and was “the only guy in dance class.” “That,” he says, “took a lot of guts.” He also studied TV and radio — but then, after graduating, landed work in various unrelated jobs like dishwashing and construction. But, he confesses, it was depressing. So he quit and vowed to pour himself into his stand-up.

Since then, Spear has been recognized as one of Toronto’s standout stand-up acts. In 2003 he won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Male Stand-up, and for some time was a cast member of Comedy Inc., the CTV sketch comedy show. He also made it to the semi-finals of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Season 6. His jokes are quick and punchy — and often based on his own follies described as observations of others. “I don’t like to insult people,” he says, “so onstage I’m making fun of someone else, but really it’s something that happened to me.” Which, to him, makes it that much funnier. “You have to be able to laugh at yourself,” he says, making reference to a bit he does about “someone” he “observes” trying on sunglasses. His sense of humour is dry and sharp, and if you catch him laughing you are bound to follow suit — it’s a contagious chortle that makes you feel you’re in on the joke. But what sets Spear apart is the dancing. While it’s not exactly twerking, there is lots of shaking and jerking and convulsive movements combined with hysterical expressions and lip-synching. It’s something you just have to see — while you have the chance. Spear, who takes his comedy across the nation, is in the process of securing Irish citizenship. His grandparents are of Irish descent, and the comic is hoping to get some work overseas and show off his talents to family and friends there. And who knows ... maybe he’ll come back with a brand-new jig.


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he start of a new year is a good time to consider resolutions for the coming year. There are always the highly regarded “go to” pledges: Eat healthy, exercise, quit bad habits, etc. But this year, take on an exciting new resolution: Make time for the theatre. If you picked up your copy of Odeum Magazine at a show, then you’ve already taken the first step! It has been widely documented that attending the theatre is beneficial, as it can improve your overall health, serve as a social outlet, broaden your perspective and boost the local economy. Studies have shown that attending cultural events can reduce stress levels, treat depression and

lower anxiety. “There is a positive relationship between cultural participation and self-perceived health for both women and men” (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2009). The theatre provides a much-needed escape from fast-paced city life. The theatre serves as a social outlet for people of common interests; it brings us together. Research shows that extroverts outlive homebodies, with several studies reporting fewer colds, lower blood pressure and lower heart rates in participants with strong social ties (Ellen Gold, 1999). Socializing produces the same physical benefits as exercise – without the hard work! We tend to take on more and more roles in our daily lives. We are workers, friends, family members and parents. Making time for the theatre encourages us to maintain a healthy work-life balance by scheduling some well-deserved “time outs” for us. Your trip to the theatre will also broaden your awareness and perspective of the world around you. Listening to others share stories of their experiences or watching how characters deal with conflict gets you thinking about your viewpoints while encouraging conversation. Being open-minded does not mean you have to believe every opinion; it means that you are willing to listen to others and learn from their insights. As Aristotle once said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Opening your mind to diversity within arts and culture helps to expand your knowledge of the world around you. Not only does the theatre benefit us individually, it also boosts the local economy. A local theatre increases the attractiveness of an area for tourism and a night at the theatre spurs spending in local businesses. The best part is that all these benefits can be found right here in our community! Brampton is home to the Rose Theatre, which has a variety of diverse performances all year round. Whether you are into jazz, comedy, musical theatre or rock ’n’ roll, there are plenty of opportunities for you to experience the wonderful world of live theatre.

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TOWER OF (SOUL) POWERTO FUNK BRAMPTON!

alifornia in the ‘60s is synonymous with the hippie counterculture, flower power and rock music, but did you folks know that the progressive state also produced a premier soul band replete with a horn section? It was none other than Tower of Power (TOP), who are all set to sock it to Brampton with their R&B sounds. In 1968, founder Emilio Castillo was at his home in California recruiting band members and in came Stephen ”Doc” Kupka for an audition with his baritone sax sound. Castillo’s dad pulled his son aside and told him, “Hire that guy, he’s got something.” And so began TOP’s musical odyssey. Along with other musicians, these two original band members, who persist until today, played several gigs and soon became well-known in their area, drawing intense crowds.

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“Our music hasn’t changed much over the years,” he continues. “We love soul and funk and Motown and we are selfish in that we like to do music we like. We have been lucky and blessed that we can do what we love and the fans love us more as the years have gone by. We never thought we would still keep going and have so many fans love us all over the world, including Japan and Europe. The music’s still the same, just polished up like diamonds.” So, put on your soul shoes, get in the groove with some original Motown sounds and old-time favourites like “You’re Still a Young Man,” “So Very Hard to Go,” “Soul With a Capital S,” “Soul Vaccination,” “Don’t Change Horses (in the Middle of a Stream),” “What Is Hip?” and many more.

“Bill Graham (concert promotion maestro of the ‘60s and ‘70s) was very instrumental in boosting our career,” says Castillo over the phone. “He got us our very first recording contract on his label and helped produce our very first album, East Bay Grease. All songs on that album were originals by Kupka and me. “This led to our next album under the Warner Bros label and then on to numerous hits and memorable albums, which our fans come out to hear us play till today. “We would always play every year at Bill’s Christmas parties and once, during a slow period in the ‘70s, Bill called us aside and gave us $10,000 to do what we liked! Yeah, you could say he helped us quite a bit, besides being a great friend, ally and fan.” On how it was to play with Santana, Castillo replies, “Like we were playing at this horn festival and Santana contacts us to come record a song he was doing that needed horns. So we drove to ‘Frisco where he was, in the middle of the night, not expecting a big deal and at the end of it all he actually paid us. That made us think of a new career alongside TOP and so we got to collaborate with Elton John, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Starship, Aerosmith and many more great artists.

“My greatest moments were when we opened up for Aretha Franklin for four nights and on the last day we passed each other nose to nose in the narrow corridors backstage and she looked at me and said, “Tower of Power, my favourite band,” and I just melted right there. Another highlight was when we performed “Diggin’ on James Brown” in the early 2000s. We saw James walking up to us and we were worried he would sue us; instead, he said ‘I love that James Brown song, man!’ Man, what a rush! “And there were these amazing encounters with Don Cornelius’s Soul Train TV shows. We found out that all the performers lip-synched and we told him ain’t no way we gonna do that and he agreed to us performing and actually singing our songs, and they loved us. We came on the show with Don several times after that. He was the best – bigger than life – and it was an exciting time for us to be on the show and an honour. We even did the ‘Best of Soul’ episode with them.


We have been lucky and blessed that we can do what we love and the fans love us more as the years have gone by ... the music’s still the same,

just polished up like diamonds.- Emilio Castillo



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R an innovator and influence among female singer-songwriters. On a personal note, it was a banner year for Cash, as she married the man who was creatively at her side at that point in her life, Rodney Crowell. The 1982 follow-up to Seven Year Ache – Somewhere In The Stars – added “Ain’t No Money,” “I Wonder” and “It Hasn’t Happened Yet” to Cash’s hit parade, but the album was also marked by a rehab stint for substance abuse. Cash bounced back with 1985’s Rhythm & Romance, which included the Grammy-winning “I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me” and “Never Be You,” followed by “Hold On” – BMI’s

most performed song of the year – and “Second to No One.” Then came King’s Record Shop, which yielded

four No. 1’s for the now-mother of four – a cover of her father’s “Tennessee Flat Top

Box,” John Hiatt’s “The Way We Make A Broken Heart,” “If You Change Your

Mind,” and John Stewart’s “Runaway Train.” A year later, she recorded a duet with husband Crowell for his celebrated Diamonds & Dirt that also lodged itself in the top position – “It’s Such A Small World.” Two years later, after the release of the dark Interiors album,

the Cash-Crowell marriage would end in divorce and Cash would move

to lower Manhattan. Eventually she wrote The Wheel,

which detailed the breakup of her marriage to Crowell and, ironically, was co-produced by

her future husband, John Leventhal, whom she married in 1995. At this point, Cash’s direction shifted again. After writing a couple of books – a collection of short stories called Bodies Of Water and one for children, Penelope Jane: A Fairy’s Tale, and being sidelined for two years when she couldn’t sing a note due to vocal cord polyps, Cash released more of a folk-oriented album with 2003’s Rules Of Travel. Her albums have since appeared more sporadically: 2006’s Black Cadillac, issued following the losses of her mother, father and stepmother June Carter Cash, all within a short period of time, followed by 2009’s duets album The List, based on a list of 100 great country and American songs her father handed her when she was 18. Four years ago, she recovered successfully from brain surgery for a rare condition called Chiari malformation, which could have resulted in hydrocephalus, and also authored her best-selling autobiography, Composed: A Memoir, leading up to The River & The Thread. So now another new chapter begins, and one senses that Rosanne Cash – daughter, mother, survivor and intellectual – will take us on another illuminating journey in her own inimitable manner.

osanne Cash has done it again. For the third time in her storied career, the daughter of Johnny Cash has radically changed artistic direction with her new album The River & The Thread, released only a few weeks ago.

Set in the southern American landscape, Cash traces the lives of characters ranging from a Civil War soldier to a New Deal-era farmer in Arkansas to a contemporary couple in Mobile, Alabama. Collaborating with her husband, noted producer/guitarist John Leventhal, Cash covers a range of styles – from swampy Delta blues and gospel to Appalachian folk, country and rock – on the 11-song album, her first of original material since 2009’s Grammy-nominated and Americana Music Association Album of the Year The List. “If I never make another album I will be content, because I made this one,” said Cash in a statement. It’s easy to understand why: from the stirring bottleneck guitar intro of “A Feather’s Not A Bed,” with its wickedly chilling string arrangements, through the light country shuffle of “50,000 Watts,” these are evocative songs full of compelling characters. “It’s a really dense album, very swampy and roots-oriented,” Cash told The Chicago Tribune late last year. “Places in the South keep showing up, and stories of southern people I know. Losses, dreams, relationships – it’s the South that’s not the stereotype of what it is in the political landscape as super-right wing. “It speaks to the tradition of not only the physical density of the air and magnolia trees, the Faulkneresque qualities, but to the loyalty of the people to each other. Southern gentility is evocative to me.” Emotionally complex perhaps, but that’s not too surprising, is it? Cash has been a stellar songwriter since emerging on the scene with her 1980 album Right Or Wrong. At that point, the Memphis-born Cash, whose mother was Johnny Cash’s first wife, Vivian Liberto, was considered more of a country singer and songwriter. She enjoyed three Top 30 singles: “No Memories Hangin’ Around,” a duet with Bobby Bare; “Couldn’t Do Nothin’ Right” and “Take Me Take Me.” But a year later, she did everything right: 1981’s Seven Year Ache was a smash hit, received across- the-board critical acclaim and not only topped the Billboard country charts, but found a pop audience, too. “My Baby Thinks He’s A Train” and “Blue Moon with Heartache” became classic No. 1’s, and Cash was regarded as

if i never make another album

i will be content, because i made this one.

- Rosanne Cash on her new album The River & The Thread



f there’s a niche for heavy metal, family-friendly comedic music, Jim Breuer has mastered it. No joke. The former Saturday Night Live (SNL) star, performing in Brampton for the first time, has just released his first rock comedy single “Santa Ain’t Coming to Town.” “It’s a parent’s battle cry and warning (to) their kids to shape up and do what’s right; otherwise ...,” said the veteran comedian and

long-time heavy metal fan. The rest of the album, due out in the spring of 2014, will feature more hilarious heavy metal for families — comical lyrics set to music akin to that of Metallica or Ozzy Osbourne, for example. And that’s not all. After all, in the business of comedy, Breuer is definitely not a one-trick pony — or goat. The comedian, who gained notoriety on SNL for his hilarious character Goat Boy and his spot-on impressions of actors like Joe Pesci and Sylvester Stallone, has been keeping busy channelling his comedy into several projects. Less than a year after the release of And Laughter for All, he’s already working on material for an upcoming one-hour comedy special and a new tour he’s pitching as A Year in Review. Which is good news for Brampton. “I have not performed in Brampton, ever!” he said. “I’m looking forward to it. As far as material goes, it’s always new and updated. My last special, And Laughter For All, was the most downloaded comedy special on Netflix — this show is completely different. It’s actually funnier, if you ask me.” Part of the success of his more recent material, said Breuer, is due to a concerted effort to clean up his act — he cut out the cussing and ditched some of the racier material. A father of three, he decided to position his comedy so that anyone of any age can enjoy it. “I am a family comedian. I work clean and it’s 100% relatable (material),” he said. “Think Bill Cosby with a leather jacket.”

I He also draws on the comedy of George Carlin, Steve Martin, Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy for inspiration, and uses a lot of material from his personal life in his writing. With more than 20 years of comedy under his belt, Breuer has certainly earned his stripes. He was named one of Comedy Central’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, and he’s funnelled his comedy into several projects — television, books, films, radio and now music. “Everything makes me laugh — I have a light heart and an open mind,” he said. “I often don’t have a hard time finding the humour in things.” Like the time, for instance, that he walked onstage to find that one of his most amusing bits was just about to happen — unbeknownst to him. “The funniest thing that happened to me during a show is, after leaving the toilet, I did not realize there was toilet paper hanging from the back of my pants when I walked onstage!” he said. Proof that performing live is a unique experience every time. And, despite his long list of credits, including roles in hit movies like Half Baked and The Zookeeper, Breuer’s first love remains stand-up. “Stand-up gives me instant gratification — the rhythm, writing, performing — and there is nothing better for me. That is where I thrive,” he said. He’s thrilled to be performing in Brampton and hopes his comedy will resonate with the folks here. “If you have NEVER seen me live before, I am excited!” he said. “A lot of people come with little expectations of me for some reason. However, most who see me keep coming back to my shows, year after year. I can’t wait to gain all the new fans in Brampton!”

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*Complete Lexus price for a 2014 IS is $39,430. Complete Lexus price includes freight and PDI of $1,995, EHF (tires) of $29, EHF (filters)of $1, A/C tax of $100, and OMVIC fee of $5. Taxes, licence, registration (if applicable) and insurance are extra. Factory order may be required. Offers are subject to change without notice. See Northwest Lexus for full details or visit www.northwestlexus.com..

Northwest Lexus is the official vehicle provider of the Rose Theatre and proud supporter of the William Osler Health System Foundation.

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