CAROL CHANNING: LARGER THAN LIFE
(Dori Berinstein, US, 2012, 87 mins.)
I review a lot of punk documentaries, so my interest in Carol Channing—as opposed to, say, Chad Channing—may seem odd, except this lady’s been kicking ass for decades now.
Further, the gap between punk and musical theater isn’t as wide as it might seem, especially since Green Day’s American Idiot became a Broadway hit (to say nothing of Stew’s Public Theater production, Passing Strange, which lives on as a Spike Lee joint).