Why Carol Channing is visiting Cal State East Bay — Arts in Education

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The career of Carol Channing is varied and continuing. She performs with the gusto of a young aspiring actress. Her heart remains on stage even though she has recently focused her efforts on improving arts education in California. Offering scholarships, teaching, lecturing and performing, she hopes to invoke renewed public support for arts education through the Channing/Kullijian Endowment for the Arts. We are thrilled to announce that Carol Channing will be having dinner with us and performing with our students.

October 8, 2007—Monday 6 p.m. (2 hours)

Supporters’ Dinner       University Union Multipurpose Room A thank you dinner for those who have supported Carol’s campus visit and contribute to the proposed arts education scholarship. Menu: Salad of greens, poached apples, bleu cheese crumble            Herb Roasted Chicken, wild rice, asparagus (or Vegetarian entrée: Mushroom Ravioli)            Strawberry and white chocolate mousse Tickets: $75 each (includes $30 donation to the scholarship fund)

October 9, 2007—Tuesday 7 p.m.  (about 90 minutes)

Performance                 University Theatre The CSUEB Musical Theatre Ensemble and Alumni will lead off the evening. Carol Channing will be featured in the second half. She performs to focus attention on the endangered state of arts education in California and across the country. Carol’s own performing arts education began in San Francisco schools. Tickets: $60 each (includes a $30 donation to the scholarship fund)

A Brief Biography

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!

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.

In 2003, the octogenarian released her best selling memoirs Just Lucky I Guess and married her junior high school sweetheart, businessman Harry Kullijian (after a 70 year separation) 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 bestowed at a CSU, Stanislaus commencement. More… (PDF)

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OPTIONAL: Call the University Theatre Box Office, 510-885-3261 and listen to the instructions. You can leave a Voice Mail message with your order information OR call the Carol Channing Hot Line number provided in the announcement. Call the hot line on the specific days and times in the announcement:

Until Sept 25, call only Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
After Sept 25, (to be announced)

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Make checks to: CSUEB Theatre, Channing. One purpose of these events is to create a scholarship for Musical Theatre students.  If you wish to make an additional donation to this fund, please write a separate check to:             CSUEB Educational Foundation – Channing Scholarship and mail to:             Thomas Hird, Chair             CSUEB Theatre             25800 Carlos Bee Blvd             Hayward CA  94542 If you have other thoughts, comments, or questions, use this space: