Photo Provided Emmy-Award Winner Vicki Lawrence is bringing Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two-Woman Show to Wheeling’s Capitol Theatre on Sunday.

WHEELING — Emmy Award winning comedy legend Vicki Lawrence is one of the most beloved television personalities of her generation. Now she is dusting off her sensible shoes and hitting the road with her new touring production, Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two-Woman Show. The show will visit Wheeling’s Capitol Theatre on Sunday, March 9.

Show time is 4 p.m.

A very limited number of tickets are still available at capitoltheatrewheeling.com, at the box office or by calling 304-233-7000.

Plucked out of total obscurity as a high school senior, Vicki Lawrence went on to become part of the now-legendary cast of the “Carol Burnett Show.”

“I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America,” Lawrence said of her “Burnett Show” training.

In the seventh season, and hundreds of hilarious sketches later — at the ripe, old age of 24 — she created her most endearing character to date, Thelma Harper, or “Mama” as she is better known to her fans.

After the “Burnett Show,” Lawrence went on to star in “Mama’s Family,” which consistently topped the ratings for its entire six-year run of original shows. “Mama” has attained almost a cult status among her legions of loyal television viewers, who still enjoy her in reruns twice daily throughout most of the country and the world.

No stranger to television, Lawrence perfected her hosting skills on her own daytime talk show, “Vicki!,” from 1992 to 1994. She received critical acclaim when she was the only talk show host since Oprah to be nominated for a Daytime Emmy in her freshman year. Through the years Lawrence has made appearances on other television programs, such as “Laverne & Shirley,” “Major Dad,” “Roseanne,” “Hannah Montana” (as Hannah’s Grandma Stewart), and “Yes, Dear.” Lawrence has also appeared with Burnett, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway in the “Burnett Show” retrospectives. Lawrence most recently co-starred in the popular FOX-TV 2018 comedy series “The Cool Kids.”

She will take the stage first in this night of comedy and music.

“My show is not a retrospective,” she explained. “The show is a mixture of stand-up comedy, music and my observations about real life.”

The multi-talented entertainer is mostly known for her acting and comedic talents, but she also earned a gold record for the 1973 hit, “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.”

“I think people will get a kick out of the things Mama has an opinion about. We’re creating new material with a more modern and cutting-edge. Where Mama is concerned, expect the unexpected. There’s really nothing she can’t do,” she said. “I hope people will be pleasantly surprised by a side of her they may never have seen … I know they will be looking forward to Mama, and for her part, that crazy old gal will be up to the challenge.”

This is not her first foray into theater. Lawrence has appeared in numerous productions, including “Carousel,” “Send Me No Flowers,” “No, No, Nanette,” “My Fat Friend,” “Chapter Two,” “Twigs,” “Hello Dolly,” “Special Occasions,” “I’m Getting My Act Together” and “Taking It ON The Road,” “Annie Get Your Gun” and “Live from the Grand Ole Opry,” and “Nunsense 3: The Jamboree,” which aired on TNN.

For information, visit www.capitoltheatrewheeling.com.