The 1949 musical comedy "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," based on the best-selling 1925 Anita Loos novel, is hardly ever performed nowadays. Carol Channing, who would later gain worldwide fame as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!", originally starred as the perennial dumb blonde Lorelei Lee of the Roaring Twenties. Truth be told, the musical has been vastly overshadowed by its 1953 mega-successful film adaptation starring Mari…
SOURCE: On Off Broadway at 12:48PM on June 1, 2012