Ethel Merman had a confidence as rock solid as her powerhouse vocals in musicals such as Hello, Dolly! “If somebody had said to her, ‘You know, you have to go on diet pills,’ she would have been like, ...

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 ...

It's 1963 and Ethel Merman, well rested and as brash as ever after her long run as Rose in the hit musical Gypsy, is appearing at the Club Bon Soir in Greenwich Village, New York. The small club, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "I have an idea! While cleaning up a little flood in the basement, I ...

In 1987’s tap-happy revival of Anything Goes, Patti LuPone scored as Reno Sweeney, the role originated by big-lunged Ethel Merman in the ’30s. In 2008, she picked up a Tony for playing Mama Rose, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. National Portrait Gallery, ...

Jazz took barely a decade to get from the South to Broadway, where composers like Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Ray Henderson and especially George Gershwin jumped on the beat and gave it an elegant ...

You may not find her in Ethel Merman drag ever again, but you might bump into playwright Patricia Kane when she’s dressed in karate whites and muttering French conjugations to herself. Barring that, ...

It sounds like the beginning of a joke: “So, two Mormons knock on Ethel Merman’s door …” That’s the premise of “The Book of Merman,” a silly little musical comedy that’s so light it threatens to float ...