What if Carol Channing Starred in...

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What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:37pm

I do a pretty good Carol Channing impersonation, and my friends and I have a game called "What if Carol Channing Starred In..." where they say the name of a musical that Carol Channing was NOT in, and I sing a song from the show in my Carol Channing voice.

For example, just think of Carol Channing in Rent singing "Today 4 U." Pretty funny, right?

The whole thing cracks my friends and family up so much, I've decided I'm going to post some on youtube.

So that said, any ideas of shows or songs that would be awful but hysterical if Carol Channing sang them? If you have any suggestions, post them below.

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:42pm

FIRST WIVES CLUB - "Ready For Change"
FIRST WIVES CLUB - "My Heart Wants To Try Just One More Time"
FIRST WIVES CLUB - "Jump For Joy"

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:42pm

Wicked, and also, links please?

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Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:46pm

Pgenre, First Wives Club is awful/hysterical (without meaning to be so) no matter who stars in it.

Links will be posted once I make a few videos. Just did the audio today for "Today 4 U"

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:46pm

Wendela, or Diana Goodman.

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:47pm

FWC IS THE GREATEST MUSICAL OF ALL TIME!

SONDHEIM WHO?! FOLLIES WHAT?!

WEDDING BELLES UNITE!

OUR HEARTS WANT TO TRY JUST ONE MORE TIME!

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:54pm

I took my boyfriend to see "First Wives Club" in San Diego for his birthday. We walked out of the show knowing that the rest of his 26th year could only go up from there.

Now to get this thread back on track, here are some songs I want to do as Carol...

“My New Philosophy” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
“A Call From the Vatican” from Nine
“Aquarius” from Hair
“Getting Married Today” from Company
“Pick a Little, Talk a Little” from The Music Man
“Wouldn’t it be Loverly” from My Fair Lady
“My Strongest Suit” from Aida
“And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls
“I Enjoy Being a Girl” from Flower Drum Song

More suggestions are welcome

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:58pm

This Is The Moment - J/H

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 9:59pm

"Electricity" from BILLY ELLIOT
"Defying Gravity" from WICKED
"I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today" from AVENUE Q
"The Bitch of Living" from SPRING AWAKENING

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--Aristotle

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:00pm

The Internet Is For Porn - Ave Q

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:05pm

Lot's Wife- Caroline, or Change
Wig in a Box- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Epiphany- Sweeney Todd

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#12

re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:23pm

Not Broadway-related, but I'd LOVE to hear Carol Channing do Madonna's "Erotica."

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#13

re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:37pm

Another Winter in a Summer Town - Grey Gardens
A Summer in Ohio - The Last 5 Years
Air - Hair

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:43pm

Hahaha StageManager, I LOVE YOUR SUGGESTION!!! That one's going on my list, as are most of the other suggestions made on here.

Keep 'em coming!

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Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:49pm

Glitter and Be Gay

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Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:50pm

My Humps and Poker Face

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Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:52pm

Do I Hear a Waltz, the Bride's Lament, Adelaide's Lament

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 11:28pm

No, not "Erotica"... do "Justify My Love"! Or "Justify My Thug" Jay-Z's version from THE BLACK ALBUM! In addition to a FWC song, of course! Pretty please! I need to hear the "Wanting. Needing..." part!

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 11:37pm

The Impossible Dream

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Posted: 12/7/09 at 11:39pm

Back in the '60s, there was a feature in Playbill having to do with unlikely casting choices, accompanied by a Hirschfeld drawing. One of them was Carol Channing as Lady Macbeth. True, there would be no songs for her to sing in this, but if singing is required, she could always do one of the arias from Verdi's opera.

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 11:49pm

So Much Better- Legally Blonde
Come to Your Senses- Tick Tick...Boom

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#22

re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/7/09 at 11:52pm

The entire score of A Chorus Line

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re: What if Carol Channing Starred in...

Posted: 12/8/09 at 12:08am

I do the SAME thing, but with Harvey Fierstein.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prB_Xp-dUZU

I also do a mean Alice Ripley, but I dont have videos of that.

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Posted: 12/8/09 at 12:15am

Hahahaha JP, think we could do a Carol/Harvey duet? I'm thinking "Sue Me" from Guys and Dolls, "Do You Love Me" from Fiddler on the Roof, or "Tonight" from West Side Story

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Posted: 12/8/09 at 12:19am

That would be AMAZING.

I have a friend who does a killer LuPone (whom you all have probably seen on youtube) and have been trying to duet with him for a while. Haha.