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 ...

Lisa Bobbert pays brilliant tribute to Broadway's original brassy broad in ETHEL, a fast, funny, and heartfelt musical ...

Stepping into the shoes of Ethel Merman in "FABLE" is no small feat, but actress Melissa Minyard is ready to take on the challenge. Minyard, who was approached by Michael Raabe, the resident music ...

Happy Hunting (book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse; music by Harold Karr; lyrics by Matt Dubey) opened to a $1,500,000 advance sale and may take in a few pennies more. For it boasts Ethel Merman, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One thing immediately catches Nancy Wilson’s eye when she joins our Zoom call. “I love your T-shirt,” the legendary Heart guitarist says about my Brian Wilson “Pet Sounds” tour ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- One thing immediately catches Nancy Wilson's eye when she joins our Zoom call. "I love your T-shirt," the legendary Heart guitarist says about my Brian Wilson "Pet Sounds" tour ...

The other half of the alert, though, was simply a statement of fact. Merman’s clarion voice, brusque style and ha-cha-cha exuberance made her musical theater’s indispensable star for decades. With the ...

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, ...

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