Carol Channing Speaks to Students at Lowell High School in San Francisco Today

Carol Channing is looking forward to returning home to San Francisco, where her career began, with spiritual son Tommy Tune for a one night only engagement of "Time Steppin."

Among the locations Channing will be visiting are her childhood home, Twin Peaks, Musicians Union, Frederick Burk Elementary School, Grace Cathedral, Lombard St., Fisherman's Wharf, the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge (which she remembers being built from her home on the hill), the San Francisco Chronicle (where her father and uncle worked), and a very special appearance at Lowell High School at 12:30pm today, November 6th, to speak with the students and facility in "The Carol Channing Theatre" (which she only recently discovered had been named after her).

Channing and Tune (pictured, left) will appear in TIME STEPPIN' for one night only Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 8PM at the SHN Curran Theatre. Tickets: $65-$140 are available through shnsf.com and SHN Audience Services at 888-746-1799.

TIME STEPPIN' marks best friends Carol Channing and Tommy Tune's triumphant return to the SHN Curran Theatre for an evening of conversations and stories. The discussion chronicles the life and career of Channing, who will speak candidly about her 70 plus years in show business, and is moderated by nine time Tony Award winner song and dance man, Tommy Tune. The event, which does not include performances, features a talk between the two show-business veterans, who have known each other for decades.

Channing won a Tony Award for her performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly!, a role she reprised three times on Broadway. Her stage credits also include ten broadway productions, including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Show Girl and The Vamp. She received a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and was the subject of a 2011 documentary film, "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," by multiple Tony winner, Dori Berinstein. Channing is also the recipient of a 1968 Special Tony Award and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1995.

A nine-time Tony winner, Tune has performed in Seesaw and choreographed A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, My One and Only, Grand Hotel and The Will Rogers Follies. His directing credits include The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Nine and Grand Hotel. He starred in the 1969 film adaptation of "Hello, Dolly!"

The longtime friendship between the two began when Tune was 17 and was working for Dallas Summer Musicals, where Channing was performing in Show Girl. Channing served as a mentor to Tune and advised him throughout his career.

Having recently played to a sold-out wildly enthusiastic crowd this past summer in Provincetown, MA, these two Broadway legends will once again come together in Ms. Channing's beloved hometown of San Francisco. "When I was a girl, my mother asked me to help distribute Christian Science Monitors and we went through the stage door at The Curran Theatre", Channing recalls. "I'll never forget it because this feeling came over me so strongly. That theatre was a temple to me, a mother church - and I knew that's where I wanted to spend the rest of my life."

"TIME STEPPIN' is a conversation with the most amazing woman I know" said Tune. "Carol is my theatrical and spiritual mother and the last of the leading ladies from a very specific golden age of American musical theatre."

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