Carol Channing

[Epigonos]

Hard to believe but Carol Channing is 95 today (1/31/1921). What a delight we was on stage and on TV interviews.

[TruHart1]

Carol Channing has always been an amazing and unique performer. She's one of a kind - the best kind!

 

TruHart1

[+ Robster]

I had the pleasure of seeing her in San Diego about 20 years ago, during a revival tour of "Hello, Dolly". She was amazing, of course.

 

Wayne and I are going to her 95th birthday celebration at the McCallum Theatre in March. Can't wait!

 

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/kristin-chenoweth-alan-cumming-lily-tomlin-and-more-will-celebrate-carol-channings-95th-birthday-in-starry-concert-373824

 

Rob

[+ glennnn]

Hello, Dolly!!!! She's 23 years older than I, and still going. Suddenly, I feel younger! Happy Birthday, Miss Channing.

[+ WilliamM]

I saw Carol Channing with Mary Martin in the very long road tour of "Legends!" around 1986. Martin knew her lines by then, but was badly miscast. So Channing was the one who held the play together, if anyone could hold such an awful play together.

 

Ir's ironic that the producers of "Legends!" never wanted Channing. After going through a long list of possibilities, Mary Martin finally spoke in favor of Carol Channing.

[MrMiniver]

It's funny but since at least the 1960s on, Carol Channing has always seemed OLD to me. Now, she really is OLD.

[Tonyko]

I saw Carol Channing with Mary Martin in the very long road tour of "Legends!" around 1986. Martin knew her lines by then, but was badly miscast. So Channing was the one who held the play together, if anyone could hold such an awful play together.

 

Ir's ironic that the producers of "Legends!" never wanted Channing. After going through a long list of possibilities, Mary Martin finally spoke in favor of Carol Channing.

I read Diary of a Mad Playwrite, so "feel" like I saw it lol.

[+ WilliamM]

I read Diary of a Mad Playwrite, so "feel" like I saw it lol.

 

Kirkwood never seems to understand that all of Mary Martin success on Broadway, London, on the road and TV was in musicals, not plays. She did several plays (original and revival) on Broadway without much success. So he wanted Mary Martin for her box office appeal, not because she was right for his play.

[MrMiniver]

Kirkwood never seems to understand that all of Mary Martin success on Broadway, London, on the road and TV was in musicals, not plays. She did several plays (original and revival) on Broadway without much success. So he wanted Mary Matin for her box office appeal, not because she was right for his play.

 

That's called Show Business.

[Tonyko]

Kirkwood never seems to understand that all of Mary Martin success on Broadway, London, on the road and TV was in musicals, not plays. She did several plays (original and revival) on Broadway without much success. So he wanted Mary Matin for her box office appeal, not because she was right for his play.

I met him real quick once when I was about 15-16 here in NYC my uncle was in a revival of a play he wrote I knew he wrote Chorus Line too but the REAL thrill for me was that he wrote two books I'd devoured from a 2nd hand bookshop in The Village There Must Be a Pony and “Good Times/Bad Times. Only a coupla years later I read that he'd passed and was sad. (always thought of him when I hit LA at 18 (and to this day when there) driving over Laural Canyon everyday passing Kirkwood Dr by the little country store and wondering if it had anything to do w his famous folks)

[+ friendofsheila]

 

Wayne and I are going to her 95th birthday celebration at the McCallum Theatre in March. Can't wait!

 

 

Rob

 

I'm envious!

[+ WilliamM]

That's called Show Business.

 

Ha Ha. How true. The performance of "Legend!" I saw in Boston was sold out.

[OneFinger]

I met him real quick once when I was about 15-16 here in NYC my uncle was in a revival of a play he wrote I knew he wrote Chorus Line too but the REAL thrill for me was that he wrote two books I'd devoured from a 2nd hand bookshop in The Village There Must Be a Pony and “Good Times/Bad Times. Only a coupla years later I read that he'd passed and was sad. (always thought of him when I hit LA at 18 (and to this day when there) driving over Laural Canyon everyday passing Kirkwood Dr by the little country store and wondering if it had anything to do w his famous folks)

Kirkwood has been one my favorites. I'm so jealous that actually met him. I've loved all his books and writings. IMHO he was one of the best.

[+ WilliamM]

Kirkwood has been one my favorites. I'm so jealous that actually met him. I've loved all his books and writings. IMHO he was one of the best.

 

OneFinger, sorry to have to say this, you might change your opinion if you saw "Legends!"

 

About a decade after Martin & Channing spent over a year on the road with the play, Linda Evans and Joan Collins revived the play in several large theaters, also on the road. I saw the revival in Philadelphia. Seeing the play a second time with a different cast,I realize just how bad "Legends!" really was.

[OneFinger]

OneFinger, sorry to have to say this, you might change your opinion if you saw "Legends!"...

That's one I haven't seen. No opinion.