Thanksgiving Parade: Carol Channing & The Cast Of ‘Hello, Dolly!’

I originally posted this in 2015, but it’s become an annual post for me just like watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Wishing you all a most marvelous Thanksgiving Day celebration!

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In 1995, I made my Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade debut with the 1995 Broadway revival cast of Hello, Dolly! – including the incomparable Tony Award-winner herself, Carol Channing!

I remember this like it was yesterday. We all had to get up waaaay early to get down to the Lunt-Fontanne Theater where our show was playing by 5 am!

We got into costume, loaded up on a bus to ride about 10 blocks down Broadway to sit in a trailer before we headed out to do “Before The Parade Passes By.”

It was so cold! You’d never know to look at Carol, though. And what a thrill to be on the most famous and watched parade with the world.

I then headed home for a most fab dinner with (then-boyfriend, now hot hubby) Michael and my bff, Carlye. During dinner the phone rang, and it was Vanessa Williams calling from the West Coast to say “Happy Thanksgiving!” before adding “you look like you’re freezing!” LOL

I still love my Broadway Dolly! family all these years later. What a great memory to find this video today. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!