By Larry Myers**** Sorceress Sharon McNight conjures both Mae West and Sophie Tucker in her show at Pilgrim House, where she started her Ptown career years ago. Her blowsy style and rapier-sharp wit make her relentlessly watchable. Entering singing “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” sans mic, she serves up the Eagles’ “Desperado,” Willie Nelson’s “City of New Orleans” and other of her cult’s favorites. She is self-referential but never self-reverential. In a more enlightened era, she would be touring on the road in Hello Dolly! I’d like to see her do Dear World or Ballroom. She offers a compendium of camp, compassion and consciousness uniquely her own. Veering from echos of Bernadette Peters to Betty Boop to Big Mama Thorton to “Motherfucker, get out of my face,” she is idiosyncratically ingenious.
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