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Eight brave souls took to the stage Wednesday to do what few people are ever willing to do — perform in public — and then be critiqued by a panel of judges.
The celebrity cabaret fundraiser Don’t Quit Your Day Job was back for its third year, filling the Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre with song and music and some cheek-hurting, side-splitting laughter on a cold and snowy mid-winter evening.
The popular benefit, which included silent and live auctions, raised funds and awareness for Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival taking place in Ottawa this June 4 to 13.
Upping the humour was Pierre Brault as MC, as well as GCTC artistic director Eric Coates as one of the fun-loving judges. Joining him were Citizen theatre critic Patrick Langston and former theatre critic Barbara Crook, who sang in the inaugural DQYDJ benefit.
Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival was held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015
The panel kept its feedback light and breezy, letting it be known that bribes in the form of cash, property or booze were perfectly acceptable. In the end, everyone who performed was a winner, mostly for having the guts to get up on stage and risk embarrassment in front of a full-house audience.
“I get a chance to see a fair amount of theatre and I’ve got to tell you: I’ve never felt anything like this,” a tongue-in-chief Langston told the crowd at the end of the show. “Chutzpah, inspiration, creativity. I leave a better man.”
The amateur talent included Terry Fitzpatrick, co-owner of Petit Bill’s Bistro and one of several participants from the Wellington West-Hintonburg ‘hood. He sang Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds and, as the first performer, took the lead in the competition.
Fitzpatrick was followed by Ottawa Centre NDP MP Paul Dewar, who performed his own poem, A Native Conversation. It was described as a “beautiful piece of writing” by the judges, who may have been influenced by his handsomeness.
Next came a series of spirited yipee-i-ayes from Cube art gallery owner Don Monet. He sang his heart out performing the Broadway musical classic Oklahoma! while dressed in Old Western costume.
Citizen columnist Andrew King proved himself a real Renaissance man with his great theatrical acts of magic, performed with humour and flair. His volunteers included John Goldsmith, retired from the Canada Council for the Arts, former city councillor Katherine Hobbs and King’s artist girlfriend, Alison Fowler. King was dy-no-mite, although very nearly upstaged by his magic wand.
After intermission, Crook returned to her role in costume and in diva character, referring to herself only in third person. Crook was now BB. That’s just the kind of crazy and unpredictable night it was.
Then it was CBC Radio newscaster Laurence Wall. He told some stories before channeling his inner gospel side with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. “Just what BB wanted to hear: a nice Jewish boy singing spiritual,” quipped Crook.
The Mother Corp. continued to dominate on stage with climatologist Teri Loretto. She engaged in witty repartee with the audience before impressing everyone with her piano and song performance of the holiday-appropriate My Funny Valentine.
(Also there from CBC was Lucy van Oldenbarneveld. She wasn’t part of the show but was so often mentioned throughout the night that she might as well have been.)
Probably most out of her comfort zone was Canadian Museum of Nature president and CEO Meg Beckel. “I’m not reading a corporate plan; I’m not at an annual public meeting,” she began before reciting poetry, beginning with The Shark by E.J. Pratt, followed by Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s Casey at the Bat, in honour of her father, William Beckel, a former president of Carleton University.
Making a lasting impression was the final act, community volunteer extraordinaire Joseph Cull. He dressed in drag as the larger-than-life Dame Edna to sing Shirley Bassey’s Big Spender. His/her performance was followed by much discussion with the judges about hair waxing and backless thongs, but maybe we’ll just leave it at that.
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The celebrity cabaret fundraiser Don’t Quit Your Day Job was back for its third year, filling the Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre with song and music and some cheek-hurting, side-splitting laughter on a cold and snowy mid-winter evening.
The popular benefit, which included silent and live auctions, raised funds and awareness for Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival taking place in Ottawa this June 4 to 13.
Upping the humour was Pierre Brault as MC, as well as GCTC artistic director Eric Coates as one of the fun-loving judges. Joining him were Citizen theatre critic Patrick Langston and former theatre critic Barbara Crook, who sang in the inaugural DQYDJ benefit.
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CBC weather specialist Teri Loretto performed a jazzy version of My Funny Valentine on piano at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen 
Joseph Cull sang Shirley Bassey's Hey Big Spender at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Visual artist Alison Fowler assisted her partner, Andrew King, during his magic act at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
CBC Radio newscaster Laurence Wall sang the spiritual song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, MC Pierre Brault listens with celebrity performer Laurence Wall to judges' feedback at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Celebrity performer Teri Loretto and MC Pierre Brault listen to the funny feedback from the judges at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Terry Fitzpatrick, co-owner of Petit Bill's Bistro, performed Elvis Presley's Suspicious Minds at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Celebrity performer Meg Beckel, president and CEO of the Canadian Museum of Nature, recited Casey at the Bat during the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
MC Pierre Brault and Meg Beckel, following her celebrity performance, listen to the judges' feedback at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Linda Wood, on behalf of the organzing committee for the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, thanks supporters at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, Magnetic North Theatre Festival board member John Goldsmith with artistic executive director Brenda Leadlay and volunteer Paul Mennier at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for the upcoming festival, held on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at the NAC Fourth Stage.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, Jonathan Lockhart and celebrity performers Paul Dewar and Teri Loretto chat during intermission at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Brian Scott came out to support Joseph Cull, seen at intermission prior to his singing performance, in drag, at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Shannon Peet with playwright Arthur Milner were in the audience at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, Beth Clarke with Sheila Whyte, owner of sponsor Thyme & Again catering, and Nhanci Wright at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, Sean Fitzpatrick, communications officer for NAC English Theatre, was out to support his brother, Terry Fitzpatrick, one of the celebrity performers at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, celebrity performer Don Monet with Sean Moore and Victoria Henry at intermission during the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, former celebrity performer and judge Barbara McInnes with Julia Sneyd, wife of MP Paul Dewar, and Amanda West Lewis of Ottawa Children's Theatre, at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Magnetic North Theatre Festival board member Jonathan Lockhart juggled during intermission at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for the theatre festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Cube art gallery owner Don Monet sang from the Oklahoma! musical at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, judges Eric Coates, Patrick Langston and Barbara Crook (in costume), announce the winner of this year's Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, MC Pierre Brault and celebrity performer Andrew King listen to what the judges have to say of King's magic performance at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Celebrity performer Joseph Cull dazzled as Dame Edna at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, Citizen theatre critic Patrick Langston was on the judges panel with Barbara Crook, in costume, and GCTC artistic director Eric Coates for the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa NDP MP Paul Dewar recited his own poetry at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
From left, MC Pierre Brault listens with Ottawa NDP MP Paul Dewar as Dewar's performance gets critiqued by the judging panel at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Citizen columnist Andrew King performed magic tricks at the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Former city councillor Katherine Hobbs assists celebrity performer Andrew King as he tries to work his magic during the Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival, held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015.
Caroline Phillips / Ottawa Citizen
Don't Quit Your Day Job celebrity cabaret fundraiser for Canada's Magnetic North Theatre Festival was held at the NAC Fourth Stage on Wednesday, February 11, 2015
The panel kept its feedback light and breezy, letting it be known that bribes in the form of cash, property or booze were perfectly acceptable. In the end, everyone who performed was a winner, mostly for having the guts to get up on stage and risk embarrassment in front of a full-house audience.
“I get a chance to see a fair amount of theatre and I’ve got to tell you: I’ve never felt anything like this,” a tongue-in-chief Langston told the crowd at the end of the show. “Chutzpah, inspiration, creativity. I leave a better man.”
The amateur talent included Terry Fitzpatrick, co-owner of Petit Bill’s Bistro and one of several participants from the Wellington West-Hintonburg ‘hood. He sang Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds and, as the first performer, took the lead in the competition.
Fitzpatrick was followed by Ottawa Centre NDP MP Paul Dewar, who performed his own poem, A Native Conversation. It was described as a “beautiful piece of writing” by the judges, who may have been influenced by his handsomeness.
Next came a series of spirited yipee-i-ayes from Cube art gallery owner Don Monet. He sang his heart out performing the Broadway musical classic Oklahoma! while dressed in Old Western costume.
Citizen columnist Andrew King proved himself a real Renaissance man with his great theatrical acts of magic, performed with humour and flair. His volunteers included John Goldsmith, retired from the Canada Council for the Arts, former city councillor Katherine Hobbs and King’s artist girlfriend, Alison Fowler. King was dy-no-mite, although very nearly upstaged by his magic wand.
After intermission, Crook returned to her role in costume and in diva character, referring to herself only in third person. Crook was now BB. That’s just the kind of crazy and unpredictable night it was.
Then it was CBC Radio newscaster Laurence Wall. He told some stories before channeling his inner gospel side with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. “Just what BB wanted to hear: a nice Jewish boy singing spiritual,” quipped Crook.
The Mother Corp. continued to dominate on stage with climatologist Teri Loretto. She engaged in witty repartee with the audience before impressing everyone with her piano and song performance of the holiday-appropriate My Funny Valentine.
(Also there from CBC was Lucy van Oldenbarneveld. She wasn’t part of the show but was so often mentioned throughout the night that she might as well have been.)
Probably most out of her comfort zone was Canadian Museum of Nature president and CEO Meg Beckel. “I’m not reading a corporate plan; I’m not at an annual public meeting,” she began before reciting poetry, beginning with The Shark by E.J. Pratt, followed by Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s Casey at the Bat, in honour of her father, William Beckel, a former president of Carleton University.
Making a lasting impression was the final act, community volunteer extraordinaire Joseph Cull. He dressed in drag as the larger-than-life Dame Edna to sing Shirley Bassey’s Big Spender. His/her performance was followed by much discussion with the judges about hair waxing and backless thongs, but maybe we’ll just leave it at that.
carolyn001@sympatico.ca
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