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Performing July 26 & 28, 2006
at the Monte Carlo in Las Vegas
From Kindergarten Teacher to Tina Turner
with Douglas Love
A Motivational Seminar for World Book Encylopedia

SHARON CARLSON, Chicago's musical comedienne, is renowned in the world of Divalogy as the Diva of Divine Merriment and Zaniness. A self-proclaimed Mezzanine Soprano, Ms. Carlson has sung her critically acclaimed musical mirth to audiences from coast to coast.

"A Chicago Original...a living landmark of the Chicago night club scene"
Chicago Sun-Times

Sharon's voice spans four octaves and her career extends through several performance areas: theatre, television, radio and cabaret.
She is also the Adjunct Professor of Music Theater Voice at both Roosevelt University and Columbia College in Chicago.

"Carlson...combining an elegant presence with a daffy camp sensibility...has perfect timing and a voice that can travel at warp speed from rich lyric soprano to brassy belt."
Albert Williams of The Chicago Reader

Sharon specializes in classical-music parody. Her classical repertory extends from La Triviata by Joe Green to Carmencita by George Bidet. She targets the world of orchestral music in her brassy production Excuse My Wind: A Musical History of the Blow Section of the Orchestra.

Sharon benevolently warns at the top of her show, "If you love classical music, this is a test!"

Sharon's program Hot Flashes on the Road to Spandex celebrates the journey of life with pertinence and irreverence. She is a song stylist of rare quality. Her rousing tribute to women of voice extends from the big belt bravado of Red Hot Momma to a tender My Yiddish Mama.

"Entertainment with a capital E...her gifts as a vocalist are superb!"
After Dark Chicago

On camera, Sharon Carlson is a well-known personality on Chicago's WTTW TV and the beloved Farmer MacDonald of the Disney Channel's Out of The Box children's series (and the series Talent Director). Favorite roles include: Cindy/Doris/Mara in Summer Stock Murder (Chicago); Mrs. Lovett of Sweeney Todd (Human Race, Dayton OH); Mama Rose in Gypsy, (Comic Opera of Milwaukee, WI); Ruth in Pirates of Penzance (Lyric Opera Cleveland, OH); and the title role in Celestina (The Producers Club, New York). "It's a long way to mediocrity," she has said, attesting to the vim and verve of her every performance.

"Without laughter, there is no laughter!"
Sharon Carlson

Sharon Carlson Enterprises, © 2006