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, ...

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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 ...

Tim Walker. Edited by Richard Eden 11 July 2012 • 7:28am "Everybody knew me, but they didn’t know Ethel overseas," the Hollywood star once told Mandrake Credit: Photo: Rex Ernest Borgnine, who died ...

Klea Blackhurst is paying tribute to famed stage personality Ethel Merman at Chelsea Table + Stage. Klea Blackhurst will present her Ethel Merman program at Chelsea Table + Stage in New York on March ...

The York Theatre Company presents an invitation-only developmental reading of the musical Merman April 1 featuring direction by Richard Sabellico and musical direction by Jon Delfin. Late musical ...

Although it's been 76 years since Ethel Merman (1906-84) became an "overnight" star in Girl Crazy and 47 since her last original role in Gypsy, she remains Broadway's undisputed Queen. She never ...

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 ...

Always wished you could experience the authentic joy of Broadway royalty Ethel Merman and Mary Martin? Join us this month as Meredith Beck and Sarah J. Gafgen bring these iconic personalities back to ...

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 ...

A biography equal to the outsized personality of one of Broadway's best-loved stars. From her breakout rendition of "I Got Rhythm" in 1930 to her triumphant performance as Gypsy's Mama Rose in 1959, ...

A celebration of the late Rita McKenzie, the noted Ethel Merman impersonator who passed away in February 2024 at the age of 76, will be held February 22 in Los Angeles. Entitled A Celebration of Life, ...