The HUMOR Project will be launching HUMOR CRUISE 2006
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Carol Channing Receives The National Humor Treasure Award

The First Lady of Musical Comedy will be adding another honor to her storied career from The HUMOR Project, Inc., which is the first organization in the world to focus full-time on the positive power of humor. More than two million people throughout the United States and abroad have attended their programs. To celebrate their 50th annual international program, The HUMOR Project will be launching HUMOR CRUISE 2006, which will sail from Miami to The Bahahahamas from March 31-April 3.

Carol Channing will be sailing on this “Laugh Boat” as the featured guest and will enchant, enlighten, and entertain with her one-woman show “The First 80 Years Are the Hardest!” After her performance, Dr. Joel Goodman and Margie Ingram will present Ms. Channing with the National Humor Treasure Award (on April 1, of course). Goodman, who is founder and Director of The HUMOR Project, notes that Ms. Channing, who just turned 85, is “a lively, laughter-inviting, living legend personification of the theme of this fun-in-the-sun-seminar HUMOR CRUISE: Adding Years to Your Life and Life to Your Years.”

The HUMOR Project will be making a significant donation in Carol’s honor to the Doctor Carol Channing Endowment of the Arts, a magnificent campaign to support fine and performing arts in schools. As a way of spreading the word on this important Endowment, The HUMOR Project has also arranged a variety of programs the week before the cruise in its hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York.
On March 24, the Saratoga County Arts Council is hosting a wine-and-cheese reception at which Mayor Valerie Keehn will be honoring Ms. Channing with the Key to the City to thank her for a lifetime of bringing joy, smiles, laughter, and music to millions of people. The Mayor will issue a Proclamation in Saratoga Springs naming March 24-31 as “Celebrate Carol Channing Week.”

For more information on the HUMOR Cruise contact Dr. Joel Goodman at 518-587-8770 or visit www.HumorProject.com.

Press contact for Miss Channing contact B. Harlan Boll at 323-954-7510 x17 or e.mail h.boll@dcpublicity.com