About This Show
Richard Skipper brings his award-winning impersonation of Carol Channing back to the Plush Room with An Evening with Carol Channing. The show is a fully staged and choreographed, 90-minute musical montage celebrating the career and persona of this unique, theatrical legend. Blending Channing standards, such as, “Hello Dolly!,” with original material and other familiar songs sung by Skipper in his powerful Broadway voice, the musical evening surveys Channing’s life with many stops along the way for Skipper’s unique–and riotous–“ad-lib” interactions with the audience.
Skipper is a two time nominee of the MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabaret) Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Impersonation” (He won it in 2000!) and the Backstage Bistro award for best performer. He was named as one of the Top Ten Cabaret Performers by the Cabaret Hotline and as “one of the Top of the Century Premiere Cabaret Acts” by
Cabaret Scenes Magazine. Skipper returns to the Plush Room after his fourth successful engagement at CASINO WINDSOR in Windsor, Ontario and several engagements at various theatres throughout Florida’s Condo Circuit, the Ontario Hilton and Washington D.C.’s Signature Theater.