A Carol Channing Memorial?

Dollypop
#1A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/19/19 at 12:43pm

Does anyone know if one is planned?

(I'd normally ask this of her PR man but he's very upset by her passing and I don't want to bother him)


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BrodyFosse123
#2A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/19/19 at 1:51pm

Yes, one is being planned. I think the St. James Theatre is being considered as thats where the original Broadway production of HELLO, DOLLY! opened. It should be happening in the next few weeks as its being organized.


Dollypop
#3A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/19/19 at 2:46pm

I hope I will be recovered from my surgery by the time it takes place.


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denali.fire
#4A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/19/19 at 3:22pm

Dollypop said: "I hope I will be recovered from my surgery by the time it takes place."

Well best wishes for a speedy recovery! 


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Dollypop
#5A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/19/19 at 4:25pm

Thanks. It's scheduled for 2/18.


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darquegk
#6A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/19/19 at 6:12pm

I hope this isn't in poor taste, but if they do a show or an event in her honor, I hope Ryan Stiles is invited. His use of Carol Channing as a stock character in "Whose Line Is It Anyway" did more to introduce her to millennials than anything else ever did: I can't count the number of times I've seen people post the "Carol Channing has a magnetic head" sketch in the past week.

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disneybroadwayfan22
#7A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/19/19 at 6:25pm

denali.fire said: "Dollypop said: "I hope I will be recovered from my surgery by the time it takes place."

Well best wishes for a speedy recovery!
"

Me too! You def deserve to go!!!!

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Charley Kringas Inc
#8A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/19/19 at 8:12pm

darquegk said: "I hope this isn't in poor taste, but if they do a show or an event in her honor, I hope Ryan Stiles is invited. His use of Carol Channing as a stock character in "Whose Line Is It Anyway" did more to introduce her to millennials than anything else ever did: I can't count the number of times I've seen people post the "Carol Channing has a magnetic head" sketch in the past week."

I'm not sure what I want more - a big-style biopic musical, maybe as a jukebox with her most famous numbers, or something totally different, like something by Taylor Mac.

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David10086
#9A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/20/19 at 6:17pm

disneybroadwayfan22 said: "denali.fire said: "Dollypop said: "I hope I will be recovered from my surgery by the time it takes place."

Well best wishes for a speedy recovery!
"

Me too! You def deserve to go!!!!
"

 

Me three! Here's wishing you a very speedy recovery !

(PS - I think it would be appropriate if the memorial was held on January 31, to remember her on her 98th Birthday. )

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Robbie2
#10A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/20/19 at 11:51pm

mid late February on a Monday St. James


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NOWaWarning
#11A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/21/19 at 3:30pm

This seemed like a good place to share this. It’s CBS’s segment on Carol from yesterday. 

 

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HereAndThere2
#12A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/21/19 at 8:47pm

Based on this song alone, I think Carol would want her funeral to be "darned fine".

 


 

Updated On: 1/21/19 at 08:47 PM

Dollypop
#13A Carol Channing Memorial?
Posted: 1/21/19 at 11:21pm

Mid February would make it the day of my surgery. If it's the following week, I'll certainly be there. I,'ll just wear baggy clothes to hide the "pouch" I'll have strapped to my thigh.


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