Legendary Broadway star Carol Channing died January 15, 2019, just two weeks shy of her 98th birthday. Her long, storied career includes her hit Broadway shows Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly!, and her lovably wacky roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Alice in Wonderland. Her 70+ year entertainment presence has garnered a Tony (plus two honorary ones), a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award nomination. Read MORE
Carol Channing, fervent Broadway star and famed comedienne, died Jan. 15 at the age of 97. Throughout her long career, Channing starred in several iconic musicals, most famously 1949’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and 1964’s “Hello, Dolly!” Her legacy is characterized by her relentless and consistent dedication to theater.
Channing had always been a natural performer — in an interview in 1994, she recalled wanting to sing on stage since the fourth grade. Read MORE
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was
planning a revival of the musical “Grey Gardens.”
She had assumed he was offering her the part of middle-aged Little Edie. But instead he was calling about Big Edie, who deep into her dotage in the second act bickers with her eccentric daughter amid the genteel squalor of the family’s crumbling estate in the Hamptons. Read MORE
Entertainers come and entertainers go, but Carol Channing was something very special — a complete American original. Read MORE
On January 16. 1964, the Jerry Herman musical “Hello, Dolly!” had its World Premiere on Broadway starring the inimitable Carol Channing. Read MORE