Comedy legend, Vicki Lawrence and her alter ego, Mama, bring their "A Two Woman Show!" to the Castro Theatre stage.
Roll your stockings, put on some orthopedic shoes and enter our Mama Look A Like contest! Do you have the chops to keep Naomi or Eunice in line?
Multi-talented Vicki Lawrence was born in Inglewood, California where she excelled in dancing and singing, was a cheerleader and was voted âMost Likely to Succeedâ by her graduating class.
From 1965 to 1967 Vicki sang with the ...
Comedy legend, Vicki Lawrence and her alter ego, Mama, bring their "A Two Woman Show!" to the Castro Theatre stage.
Roll your stockings, put on some orthopedic shoes and enter our Mama Look A Like contest! Do you have the chops to keep Naomi or Eunice in line?
Multi-talented Vicki Lawrence was born in Inglewood, California where she excelled in dancing and singing, was a cheerleader and was voted âMost Likely to Succeedâ by her graduating class.
From 1965 to 1967 Vicki sang with the Young Americans musical group and also appeared in the feature film âThe Young Americansâ which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
During her senior year of high school, Vicki sent Carol Burnett a letter which included a local newspaper article mentioning their resemblance. Vicki invited Ms. Burnett to the local fire departmentâs âMiss Fireball Contestâ in which she was performing. Ms. Burnett, looking for an actress to play her kid sister on her new variety series, contacted Vicki and made arrangements to come to the event. The rest is television history. âThe Carol Burnett Showâ premiered in the fall of 1967; the same year Vicki entered UCLA to study Theater Arts. She spent eleven years with Carol, earning one Emmy Award and five Emmy nominations.
In 1968, Vicki went to Viet Nam to visit the U.S. troops with Johnny Grant. Several years later, in 1973, Vicki received a gold record as a recording artist for her international hit single, âThe Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.â
After the Burnett show ended, Vicki went on to star in her own TV series, âMamaâs Familyâ with Ken Berry, Dorothy Lyman, Beverly Archer, and Allan Kayser. The last original episode was made in January of 1990, completing five years of first-run syndication. The show still can be seen daily throughout most of the country.
Vicki also travels all over the country speaking to womenâs organizations about her life and career, womenâs health, and being a woman in a manâs world. All the while she approaches everything with her characteristic sense of humor, reminding us all that âLife is much too serious to be taken seriously!â She also can be seen across the country in her stage production: âVicki Lawrence and Mama, A Two Woman Show.â