Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On this day we celebrate the life and legacy of the inimitable Ethel Merman, who ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On the day of the event, January 19, 1961, the blizzard arrived; many of the ...

Ethel Merman had a confidence as rock solid as her powerhouse vocals in musicals such as Hello, Dolly! “If somebody had said to her, ‘You know, you have to go on diet pills,’ she would have been like, ...

“These songs” included “Sam and Delilah,” “Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!” and, of course, “I Got Rhythm,” which, when she blasted it out at the end of act one, made Broadway history. No one had ever ...

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 ...

Everyone knows Mama Rose’s first line in 1959’s “Gypsy.” It’s “Count four before you start, Louise!” Or at least it was. But one day in rehearsal Ethel Merman crossed it out for the line everybody now ...

Christy of Menomonie, Wis.: “As I was playing with my tablet, hubby asked me to look up an old TV appearance of Ethel Merman singing ‘I Got Rhythm.’ “After we watched her performing a lusty version of ...

Klea Blackhurst can't explain it. She doesn't try to defend it. And she doesn't really give a fig, in the nicest possible way, if anyone thinks her obsession is an odd one. When it comes to loving ...

Written and directed by Drama Desk winner Richard Sabellico and stage-managed by Adolpho Blaire, the play is based upon Brian Kellow's biography "Ethel Merman: A Life" and features music from such ...

Ethel Merman is a victim of Bloated-Elvis Syndrome. For many who came of age in the early ’70s or later, the Las Vegas Elvis seemed little more than a paunchy caricature — flouncing about on stage ...

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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 ...