Dori Berinstein – MRQE

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

If Carol Channing didn’t exist, no one could have made her up. One in a billion, Carol , at 89, remains an unstoppable, megawatt dynamo. Broadway diva extraordinaire is just the icing. Carol Channing hovered at the pinnacle of the entertainment world from the late-1950’s through the 1960’s and beyond, living life sensationally large. As Carol has observed, ‘…if you’re lucky enough to have two hit shows, the world passes through your dressing room’. At 89, she remains irrepressible.

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a Broadway Producer, Writer and Filmmaker. Berinstein filmed each principal musical on Broadway for her project during the 2003-2004 season, for about 600 hours of initial film footage. She focused the film on four musicals, through the difficulties of pre-production, their openings, attendant publicity around the shows, and their reviews, through the 2004 Tony Award competition. The four musicals documented for the film were: Wicked, Taboo, Caroline or Change, Avenue Q.

Gotta Dance

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Chronicles the first-ever, senior citizen hip-hop dance team for the New Jersey Nets Basketball team, 12 women and man – all dance team newbies, from auditions through to center court stardom.