Walk a Mile in My Paws: My Day As a Bear
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Categorized on Myspace as Music, Mama Spell is music to many a tonedeaf ear. But she's also a personable person and does not serially add random friends in this format. If she requests you as a friend here it means she likes you, she really likes you!
And although her training and background geared her for a life of sitting alone in a studio inhaling paint fumes, Sharon "Mama"* Spell longed for a life before an audience. She moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Hattiesburg, Mississippi after getting a BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi in Painting and Drawing. Her visual art has been described as possessing a fine and distanced beauty that suggests abstract expressionism. (For a good time, go to her art index.) She was teaching at the Andy Warhol Museum and Carnegie Museum of Art when she dove headfirst in the cabaret performances, putting her fine and distanced beauty onstage, spouting abstract expressionist humor that everyone can relate to.
Her show is more rock-n-roll than stand-up comedy, the kids dig it and you can dance as you laugh along to it (think Andy Kaufman + Pee Wee Herman + [Liz Taylor / Ethel Merman] = Mama Spell). She tap dances, sings songs, tells stories and plays her funky keyboard. Sidekicks Monkey and her Press Agent Pony also step in to lend Mama a comedic hand.
Mama Spell has performed her comedy and tragedy across the land for about seven years in places like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Columbus Ohio, Louisville and Hattiesburg. In Pittsburgh she has performed at Art All Night, First Night Pittsburgh, The Improv, Lava Lounge, The Quiet Storm, The Rex, and many other venues. Recently she has taken her show to the Knitting Factory in New York.
*She got the nickname "Mama" from a friend from college. She was his only friend with a car, and so her car became "Mama's Taxi," and she became "Mama." Her show and sense of humor are joyous, not hateful. Mama Spell just wants you to sit down and finish making your macaroni necklace while she finishes drinking her martini, quietly. Can't we have just ONE nice Thanksgiving? Thank you.
