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An Intimate Evening with Carol Channing and Justin Vivian Bond
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: An Intimate Evening with Carol Channing and Justin Vivian Bond: In one of the most ingenious pairings since Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming, Daniel Nardicio presents the living legend, 3 time Tony Award winner Carol Channing and Tony nominated queer icon, Justin Vivian Bond in an intimate evening of stories and song. Bond will be moderating a Q and A with Ms Channing.
CAROL CHANNING
Carol was born Jan 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of a
prominent newspaper editor, who was very active in the Christian Science
movement. At just two weeks of age, her father's work took the family to San
Francisco, where Carol was raised, schooled and eventually found work as a
model. Through determination, hard work, and her family's support (not to
mention a mandatory IQ test for which she scored one of the highest recorded
results) Carol was able to attend Bennington College in Vermont that had one
of the few existing arts programs in the country, majoring in drama and dance.
A recipient of the 1995 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award, Ms. Channing
has been a star of international acclaim since a Time magazine cover story
hailed her performance as Lorelei Lee in Gentleman Prefer Blondes writing;
"Perhaps once in a decade a nova explodes above the Great White Way with
enough brilliance to re-illumine the whole gaudy legend of show business."
Since her 1948 Broadway debut in Blitzstein's No For An Answer, her
Broadway appearances include So Proudly We Hail, Let's Face It, Lend An
Ear, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Show Girl, Pygmalion, The Millionairess, The
Vamp, Four On A Garden, and Wonderful Town. In addition to receiving a
special Tony Award in 1968, she won the Tony Award in 1964 for her
legendary portrayal of Dolly Levi in Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!
Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children made their first public
appearance after JFK's death by seeing her perform in Hello, Dolly! and later
visited her backstage. She has since played the role in over 5000 performances,
without missing a single performance. She then toured with her own revue,
Carol Channing and Her Ten Stout Hearted Men and critically acclaimed tours
of Jerry's Girls and Legends, in which she co-starred with Mary Martin.
Ms. Channing's happiest film project was in the role of Muzzy in
Thoroughly Modern Millie, which earned her an Oscar nomination and a
Golden Globe Award. Other films include Paid In Full, The First Traveling
Saleslady (giving new comer Clint Eastwood his first on screen kiss), Skidoo,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Archie and Mehitabel and
Thumbelina.
Ms. Channing TV specials, include Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl,
Carol Channing's Los Angeles, Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway,
George Burns - His Wit and Wisdom and to millions of children worldwide is
best known as the White Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass. Other
television credits include popular game shows as What's My Line, I've Got a
Secret, Password, and Hollywood Squares; variety shows such as The Dean
Martin Show, The Red Skelton Show, The Milton Berle Show, Rowan &Martin's Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show, The Muppet Show, as well as
many Tony and Grammy broadcasts. A partial list of Carol's Episodic work
consist of Playhouse 90's Three Men on a Horse, The Love Boat, Magnum,
P.I., The Nanny, Touched by an Angel, The Drew Carey Show and Family
Guy.
As one of the most easily recognized and highly imitated voices in the
world, Carol's unique sound has been established as characters and narrative in
both TV series and documentaries like JFK: The Day the Nation Cried, The
Adam's Family (voice of Granny), Thumbelina, Free To Be You and Me,
Space Ghost, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers and The Brave Little Toaster Goes
To Mars. Ms. Channing also cut twenty children's albums of classic stories
including Winnie The Pooh and Madeline.
Ms. Channing has recorded ten gold Albums and including the original cast
album of Hello, Dolly! released in 1964. Ms. Channing has appeared in most
every grand ballroom and concert hall in the country. Among her other
acknowledgements is a Best Nightclub Act of the Year Award, Harvard
University's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award, the Oscar
Hammerstein Award for lifetime achievement and the Julie Harris Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Actors' Fund of America, but is most proud in
the role of mother of Chan Lowe, who is a nationally syndicated editorial
cartoonist, who has the distinction of being a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
In 2003, the octogenarian released of her best selling memoirs, "Just Lucky
I Guess" and started touring world wide with her one woman show entitled
"The First Eighty Years are the Hardest," after the very successful preview
given to New York audiences that prompted the New York Times to say "Back
Where She Belongs: Carol Channing Reminisces . . . The audience jumped to
its feet more than once. We were watching a master performer" and Associated
Press declared "The audience clearly was there to worship, and Channing did
not disappoint." In 2004, Broadway's "first lady of musical comedy," received
an honorary doctoral degree becoming Doctor Carol Channing from the
California State University, Stanislaus Commencement (only the third
Honorary Doctoral Degree given in CSU Stanislaus 45-year history).
In 2008, Carol was inducted into the Smithsonian Institute in D.C., along
with eight other legendary ladies of stage and screen. Her original diamonds
dress from the Broadway production of "Lorelei," worn while singing
"Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend" and the "Hello Dolly!" gown (from a
later tour), as well as her TONY Award for her portrayal of Dolly Gallagher
Levy, are currently part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian
Institutes' American History Museum.
In 2010, Carol returned to the Great White, performing at the New
Amsterdam theatre on 42nd Street, with many returning "Dolly boys" from
previous "Hello Dolly!" tours and receiving the "Gypsy Award" from
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS." Ms Channing released her new CD,
"For Heaven Sake," in early 2010, featuring many of the spirituals she came to
know and love as a child. In 2012, Carol released a new patriotic CD titled
"Carol Channing: True to the Red, White & Blue."
In January 2012, mutli TONY winning director and producer, Dori Berinstein, released the critically acclaimed and award winning documentary entitled "Carol Channing: Larger
Than Life," highlighting Carol's 70 plus year career.
JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND
Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a writer, singer, painter, and performance artist. Mx Bond is the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning memoir TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels, published by The Feminist Press and Susie Says a collaboration with Gina Garan (Powerhouse Books, 2012). V's debut CD DENDRPOPHILE was self-released on WhimsyMusic in 2011 and was followed by SILVER WELLS in 2012. In 2011 Justin Vivian's art exhibition The Fall of the House of Whimsy was presented at Participant Inc. in New York City. Mx Bond was nominated for a Tony Award for Kiki and Herb Alive On Broadway in 2007. Other notable theatrical endeavors include starring as Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis in Scott Wittman's production of Jukebox Jackie: Snatches of Jackie Curtis as part of La Mama E.T.C.'s 50 Anniversary Season, originating the role of Herculine Barbin in Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking play Hidden: A Gender, touring with the performance troupe The Big Art Group and appearing in John Cameron Mitchell's film Shortbus. Other films include Sunset Stories (2012), Imaginary Heroes (2004), and Fanci's Persuasion (1995). Mx Bond is a recipient of The Ethyl Eichelberger Award, The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award for Performance Art/Theater, an Obie and a Bessie. Please visit www.justinbond.com to download and enjoy v's music and blog, Justin Vivian Bond is Living!
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