Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind the Broadway legend’s tough, self-assured exterior was a loving grandma that only Barbara and her brother got to see. “She ...

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 ...

The voice – confident, throaty and resonant as a church bell – is unmistakable. “I never needed a microphone when I was on Broadway,” Ethel Merman announces from offstage. A moment later she’s in ...

Complete Information About The Book of Merman in Palm Springs at The Prism Theater (Jun 12 – Jul 26, 2026). THE BOOK OF ...

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 ...

Rita McKenzie is America’s go-to girl when it comes to playing Ethel Merman. Since the early 1980s, the song-and-dance veteran and New Jersey native has been performing Merman’s most celebrated songs ...

In terms of solo, studio LPs featuring her standard song repertoire, Ethel Merman's list may begin with Songs She Made Famous, a ten-inch Decca LP pressing of a 1947 collection of seven of her ...

Lisa Bobbert pays brilliant tribute to Broadway's original brassy broad in ETHEL, a fast, funny, and heartfelt musical cabaret celebrating the life and legacy of Ethel Merman. With her legendary ...

Jobs Broadway Grosses Playbill Vault - Shows, Actors, and More Current and Future Broadway Theatre Bookings Upcoming Cast Recordings But the woman who started it all was perhaps the most legendary ...

Ethel Merman, who made her Broadway debut in 1930 in Girl Crazy, was born January 16, 1908. Merman went on to become one of the biggest Broadway stars of her era, a woman whose name is synonymous with ...

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 ...