Carol Channing, the original Broadway star of Hello, Dolly! is still alive and steppin’ out. If you want to catch her in the flesh (she’s 93-years-old!), you’ll need to fly to San Francisco. Fellow Tony winner Tommy Tune will interview his mentor Channing at the SHN Theatre in San Francisco on November 8. She’s scheduled to “speak candidly about her 70 plus years in show business.”
If you can’t make that, you can find her on Twitter. Playbill has tapped into the resilient charm of Carol Channing by tweeting on her behalf via its official Twitter account. Playbill’s “Twitter Takeovers” get up close and personal with such Broadway favorites. Social media is new to Channing but she handled it with aplomb. “It has been wonderful to be able to talk to the people who would have been in the audience. I never got to do that before. – C.C.”
