Toronto Sun
Stratus Takes T.O. - Wrestler Hits Comedic Stage
August 6th, 2004

HER PERFORMANCE on the Second City stage next week just might bring another meaning to the term "break a leg." Sometimes when Trish Stratus is on the World Wrestling stage, people get hurt but at least this time it's just live comedic theatre. Not that the star sees the distinction.

"Hey, I make no guarantees," joked Trish Stratus yesterday during rehearsals for her comedic debut with the cast of the show Invasion Free Since 1812 next Thursday.

NURSING A BROKEN HAND

So cast members Naomi Snieckus, Paul Constable, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Matt Baram and Jamillah Ross had better be on their toes with the five-time woman's World Wrestling Entertainment champion working skits with them because normally whoever is on stage with her goes down.

Lucky for them, Stratus is actually nursing a broken hand -- suffered in the ring.

Next week's performance will mark a special week for Stratus, who will also be part of the WWE's Super Summer Slam at The Hangar on Sunday, Aug. 15, and also will be involved the next night when the wrestling show moves to London.

"It's fantastic, it's going to be a home week," she said. "I am going to be able to sleep in my own bed every night."

The Bayview Secondary graduate, who will be taking part in an after-show party at Second City, recently built a home in Richmond Hill and commutes from here to all of her scheduled wrestling dates around the world. "It's a pretty crazy lifestyle," she jokes.

And a long way from what she thought she would be doing at this stage in her life.

"I was going to go to medical school," she said joking. "I don't know now if I will be able to fit it into my schedule."

Comedy, movies and more wrestling are in her future first.

"I wouldn't have said I would be doing this five years ago so who knows where I'll be."

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