Sharon McNight To Perform At Metropolitan Room 4/25-26

The Tony nominated actress and singer Sharon McNight is poised to unleash a star-shower of erudite show business fun in her new one-woman show "Gone, But Not Forgotten."  The New York premiere of "Gone, But Not Forgotten" plays two nights only, Friday and Saturday April 25 and 26 (both at 10pm), at The Metropolitan Room, marking the much-anticipated return to New York of the West Coast-based McNight.

With music director Ian Herman on piano, McNight channels a rogue's gallery of some of the juiciest, funniest and down-to-earthiest lady legends of the silver screen, the stage and the recording world you'd ever hope to meet. Among the grande dames crowding the stage with McNight are Martha Raye, the Ozark Nightingale Judy Canova, Pearl Bailey, Hildegarde, the Ethels -- Merman and Waters -- Patsy Cline, and Madeline Kahn, among others.  The many-faced marvel Sharon McNight, who has six San Francisco Cabaret Gold Awards, three Cable Car Awards, a MAC Award, a Bistro Award, and a Nightlife Award from New York's critics for Best Musical Comedy ("Ladies, Compose Yourselves!"), is one of the few REAL women to dare to impersonate Bette Davis.

Her previous projects were "Betty, Betty, Bette," celebrating screen legends Grable, Hutton, and Davis, and her one-woman Off-Broadway show based on the life of show business legend Sophie Tucker, which McNight also scripted. McNight made her Broadway debut in "Starmites" in 1989, for which she garnered a Tony Award nomination, a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut, and a Hirshfeld caricature.

Her eclectic repertory ranges from blues to country to good old-fashioned entertainment. She is known for her wizardly rendition of "The Wizard of Oz" and she is on the faculty of the Cabaret Symposium at Yale University.

Herman, a 1999 Backstage Bistro Award winner (for best Musical Director), has worked with performers including Jane Olivor, Donna McKechnie, Anita Morris, Judy Kaye, Marilyn Sokol, Angela LaGreca, and Joy Behar in nightclubs in New York and around the country.

The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, this year voted Best of New York by New York Magazine, celebrates its second anniversary in May 2008.  For reservations call 212/206-0440. For more information visit www.metropolitanroom.com or www.sharonmcnight.com