Richard Skipper Celebrates Sharon McNight (12/02/2021)

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/2wWsuaG6F3M The hour went by so fast that I didn't have time to thank you for the thoughtful and thought provoking interview. There were a couple of questions I could have answered better if I had been more awake and the coffee had kicked in. Thanks again for celebrating me.  sharon mcnight,  sharonmcnight.com   Multi award winning performer Sharon McNight has played from Moose Hall to Carnegie Hall, from San Francisco to Berlin. She began her career entertaining in the cabarets and gay bars of San Francisco in the late 70's. In the mid 80's she received a S.F. Critics Circle award for her performance in “Nunsense” and was one of two straight women chosen as Grand Marshal of the 1986 S.F. Gay Day Parade for her dedication and fund raising efforts during the AIDS crisis. And in 2019, her name was engraved in stone at the National AIDS Memorial Grove. Sharon made her Broadway debut in 1989 in Starmites, received a Tony nomination for her performance, and is the recipient of the coveted Theatre World Award for "Outstanding Broadway Debut” and a the Bistro Award presented and produced by Backstage.com for “commanding cabaret artistry”. Her regional credits include Amanda McBroom's Heartbeats at the Pasadena Playhouse. Sharon was Sister Hubert in Nunsense in Los Angeles and San Francisco, where she was presented with the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for "Best Performance in a Musical.”  She has five solo recordings to her credit, one of those being “The Sophie Tucker Songbook,” which contains the music of her one-woman Off-Broadway show, “RED HOT MAMA” based on the life of the first lady of show business.