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Hell's Kitchen, just west of the Broadway theater district, was hell for new musicals in November. "Evil Dead," "Mimi Le Duck" and "How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes" have been ...

Two biographies of Ethel Merman in the same month? You may think that’s overkill, but you may also think that one biography of Ethel Merman is overkill, considering that there already are two, one of ...

In Laguna Beach, Broadway (the street) stops just before it gets to the Laguna Playhouse, whereupon it becomes Laguna Canyon Road. Next week, although the playhouse isn’t on Broadway, Broadway will be ...

My earliest recollection of the late showbiz legend Ethel Merman dates back to an early-1960s episode of The Lucy Show, in which zany Lucy Carmichael (Lucille Ball) meets the Merm and assumes that she ...

Look up “brassy” in the dictionary, and you should find a picture of Merman, the indefatigable queen of the Broadway musical for much of the 20th century. Though she made movies, some of which sent up ...