She’s got rhythm and music, so who could ask for anything more from a singer performing an Ethel Merman tribute concert? The spirit of Merman, the Broadway star who made George Gershwin standards like ...

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 ...

Edward Zimmermann married Agnes Gardner on Aug. 2, 1905 in Queens. Their only child, Ethel Agnes, was born on Jan. 16, 1908.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...