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 ...
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 was the most important musical theatre star who ever took to the stage. A powerful woman in an era when women were not supposed to be powerful, her strength informed her work and her art.
June Squibb at 96 still has sharp memories of Ethel Merman. Squibb appeared on the April 13 episode of Still Here Hollywood, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
LOS ANGELES — Actress Rita McKenzie, who starred in the longest one-woman show in theatrical history when she appeared in “Ethel Merman’s Broadway,” died Saturday. She was 76. McKenzie died in Los ...
Belting a Broadway show tune takes a different skill than singing an operatic aria, a voice instructor says. Patrick Newell, founder of the Sweetland Voice Institute, will demonstrate the difference ...