Nitpick: The line is “Don’t you dare do Hello Dolly once again.
For as you know, Carol
this old show, Carol
Has been drummed into our brain since we were only ten.”
I’m 58, and have been aware of CC as long as I can remember. But for that entire time, she was essentially a 1-hit wonder.
Sounds like she was a neat person, and her 1-hit was done well, but has anyone been more popular/notorious with a narrower range that she?
But, as the multiple article about her show, she wasn’t a One-Hit wonder. She was in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Vamp and Show Girl. There’s no denying that Dolly was the dinosaur that overshadowed the rest of them, and with which she is linked in the public mind, but I never thought of that as her only credit.
You want One-hHit fame, try Clara “Where’s the Beef?” Peller.
Thanks! I was working from memory, and we all know how well that works.
Forbidden Broadway has become the modern equivalent of Al Hirschfeld’s wonderful caricatures. When you get parodied in FB, you know you’ve made it on Broadway!
Wow—how on earth did I miss this news?
My first exposure to Carol Channing in the otherwise forgettable 1985 TV movie Alice in Wonderland. A YouTuber has kindly uploaded her standout performance of Jam Tomorrow, Jam Yesterday. Her voice is just riveting! I later saw her films Skidoo and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Unfortunately I never had the pleasure of seeing her live theatre work.
She was also interviewed by Space Ghost!
