Carol Channing, the stage icon whose indelible turns in the musicals Hello, Dolly! and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes put her on the map as a Broadway legend, died of natural causes on January 15 at her home in Rancho Mirage, California. She was 97. Carol Elaine Channing was born January 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington. She attended Bennington College in Vermont, soon after landing her first Broadway job, t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:32AM on January 15, 2019