Carol Channing

On stage 13 productions, 53 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• I always looked forward to having Carol Channing as a guest on our show. She made every straight line funny, and every funny line funnier. She also had a reputation for never missing a show when she worked on Broadway (2,844 performances in Hello, Dolly! alone). She never, ever got sick. She said she owed her remarkable health to what she…ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
• Unfortunately, Gray never lived up to her great promise and never created legendary roles to place her in the pantheon with Merman, Martin, and Carol Channing. She starred in Carnival in Flanders (1953), a six-performance failure for which she won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen’s scor…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act One: “The Spiel” (Jack Waldron, Bibi Osterwald, Patrons of the Coliseum); “The Flickers” (Phyllis Dorne, Patrons); “Keep Your Nose to the Grindstone” (Carol Channing, Will Geer, Sandyl Cordell); “That’s Where a Man Fits In” (Carol Channing); “I’ve Always Loved You” (Carol Channing, Farm Folk); “You’re Colossal” (Patricia Hammerlee, Ro…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Act Two: “Four Little Misfits” (Patricia Hammerlee, Bibi Osterwald, Robert Rippy, Matt Mattox); “Samson and Delilah” (Carol Channing, Matt Mattox, Steve Reeves, David Kashner, David Neuman, Cathryn Damon, Movie Company); “Why Does It Have to Be You?” (David Atkinson); “Ragtime Romeo” (Bibi Osterwald, Matt Mattox, Boys); “I’m Everybody’s B…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The Vamp seems to have had so much going for it. Here was Carol Channing as farm girl Flora Weems (a great musical-comedy-character name if ever there was one), plucked from obscurity to become the most famous vamp of the silent screen era; added to the fun were bombastic director Oliver J. Oxheart (David Atkinson), pushy Hollywood column…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Tony Award Nominations : Best Actress in a Musical (Carol Channing); Best Choreographer (Robert Alton)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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