Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
#1Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 4:23pm
I know this has been discussed previously, but it certainly deserves another look. There is a Facebook campaign dedicated to this worthy cause. Please bear in mind that you might have other preferences for this honor. However, this thread is solely focused on Carol Channing. Also, I didn't realize that you could go to the Kennedy Center Facebook page and submit a candidate for the honor. https://www.facebook.com/CarolChanningDeservesThe2016KennedyCenterHonor/
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#2Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 4:25pm
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"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
bwaylyric
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/22/03
#3Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 6:25pm
I've always wondered if the Kennedy Center Honors are really the highest honor for performing artists. Or did TV producers and the center itself make that call?
What's stopping another facility/institution such as Lincoln Center for creating such a distinction?
#4Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 6:30pm
i feel like they usually honor people with long and varying careers. hers wasn't really that diverse, she mostly played Dolly and Lorelei ad nauseum. still love her though.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
Updated On: 1/15/17 at 06:30 PM
#5Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 6:33pm
She is of course a legend, but she's spent almost her entire career playing one role. I don't really know if she has the body of work to justify being a Kennedy Center honoree.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#6Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 7:17pm
Liza as well.
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Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#7Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 7:21pm
I love Carol Channing, her work ethic, her roles, and greatly admire the work she has done to support arts education in public schools.
If the Kennedy Center was going to honor her, they would have by now. I suspect the powers that be do not want to, for whatever reason.
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#8Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 8:23pm
I have always loved her, but Carol Channing does not deserve a Kennedy Center award. Her body of work is so narrow that there would be no justification.
I personally was once a huge Liza Minelli fan, but I have not been able to stand her for at least 20 years, so I am probably not objective here. I just think she flitted her talent away and has been a cliche, a la Carol Burnett's impersonation of Norma Desmond, for too many years. I must be in a harsh mood, but that is how I fell.
#9Carol Channing Deserves The Kennedy Center Honors
Posted: 1/15/17 at 8:30pm
Totally agree with gypsy101...
