She walks onto the stage in a silver mini dress with sequins the size of quarters and shoes to match. That hair, which could be a cap of feathers or a silky bird's nest, has been blond for years. Now it is a pale silvery gray.
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An icon of stage, screen and television, the "old girl" was in remarkable form in Schenectady, performing her 90-minute, one-woman show, "The First 80 Years Are the Hardest: The Carol Channing Experience."
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Channing recalled her earliest exposure to the theater with fondness.
'I had a 50-cent allowance in those days, and I remember saving up my money so I could buy theater tickets to attend Saturday matinees,' she recalled for the group of about 50 students. Then the 85-year-old Channing demonstrated some vintage fancy footwork for the cast and crew, who sat in a semi-circle around her on the stage, framed by the pink and turquoise backdrop of the 'No, No, Nanette' set.
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Oscar Hammerstein Award
When I first saw Carol Channing, I knew that I was in the presence of a phenomenon. Indeed I did not so much see her as amazedly behold her, for which, to this day, I am beholden to her. The occasion was a 1948 revue, Lend an Ear, and when she came on, I was ready to len her both ears, both eyes, and whatever other parts she might have claimed. She was commandingly after taller than anyone else around her, had the most original voice, moved with prodigious abandon, and looked more than merely pretty: handsome.
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Carol Channing: From Footlights To Lobby  By Joseph F. Panarello
Carol Channing’s name is probably one of the most recognizable in show business. She created the role of Lorelei Lee in the musical GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, She played Eliza Doolittle in PYGMALION before Clare Danes was even born. She replaced Rosalind Russell in the musical WONDERFUL TOWN. She received an Academy Award nomination for tap dancing on a xylophone in the movie THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.
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At 85, Carol Channing isn't slowing down By Andrew McGinn
When you have a lifetime achievement Tony Award on your mantle, you shouldn't have to play to a half-empty house.
Period.
But that was the unthinkable challenge presented to Broadway legend Carol Channing on Saturday night in Kuss Auditorium.

Then again, this is the woman who toughed it out for more than 5,000 performances as Dolly Gallagher Levi — and for more than a few of those, she was fighting ovarian cancer.
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She's always been known for her quips, her good-natured refusal to edit her words, her occasional verbal journeys into the world of confabulation. And that voice. An indescribable combination of slurry, theatrically exaggerated, convivial, high-octane tones.
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