With crackling wit and powerful vocals, Klea Blackhurst honors the big, brassy sounds of Ethel Merman. From shows like Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, and Hello Dolly!, audiences will enjoy ...
Bad ideas really don’t come much worse than this, now do they? In 1979 — the very tail-end of the disco era, if not the beginning of the post-disco era — A&M thought it wise to make “The Ethel Merman ...
Ethel Merman's brass-band voice ruled Broadway from the 1930s on through the 1960s. In 1950 and 1951 she recorded a series of singles for Decca Records that covered novelty tunes and hit songs of the ...
One-time Denverite Ethel Merman released a disco album in 1979 on A&M Records. The Ethel Merman Disco Album came out in 1979. The genre was declared dead a year later. We can't say if that's Ethel's ...
Two Mormon missionaries have an unexpected encounter with a singing legend when they knock on the door of Ethel Merman’s house in the hilarious musical “The Book of Merman,” presented Feb. 3-26 at the ...
Ethel Merman introduced some of the best songs ever written by the likes of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and the Gershwin brothers, including “Anything Goes,” “There’s No Business Like Show Business” ...
Following a hit run at the New York State Theatre and a national tour, Ethel Merman returned to Broadway as Annie Oakley in a revival of Annie Get Your Gun, playing the same role she originated 20 ...