2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Co-hosted by TMTP artistic director Bill Rudman and music director Nancy Maier, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

It started off as a chance encounter with a drug-addicted female impersonator and turned into a personal anthem about being gay. Playwright and actor L. Robert Westeen’s one-man show Cocaine & Ethel ...

Of all the since-departed celebrities who’ve shown up to entertain at the Laguna Playhouse recently (George Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald), none shines brighter than the queen of Broadway herself, Miss ...

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 ...