Last evening, on the set of Good Morning America at the Times Square Studios, Carol Channing emceed an Actors’ Fund of America celebration of Darcie Denkert’s lavish new coffee table book A Fine Romance, all about “the musical love affair between Broadway and Hollywood.” (The author’s royalties from the book are being donated to the Actors’ Fund and the Motion Picture and Televison Fund.) Here’s the one and only Channing with Lee Roy Reams, who co-starred with her in the 1978 Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! and directed her in the 1995 revival.
Broadway and cabaret star Karen Mason — pictured here with her husband, songwriter/arranger Paul Rolnick — sparked the party with her rendition of “All That Jazz” from Chicago.
Also on hand for the celebration were actor David Alan Basche (Visiting Mr. Green and Snakebit on stage, The War of the Worlds on screen, Rescue Me on TV) and his wife, Alysia Reiner (whom you may have seen in Sideways)…
