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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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Before she ever stepped onto the set of I Love Lucy, Vivian Vance had already lived a life filled with both promise and pain-experiences that would shape not only her career, but her complicated ...

Vivian Vance brought a long, complicated history to the role of Ethel Mertz. Pop culture historian Geoffrey Mark says she faced child abuse in Cherryvale, Kansas, then trained in Albuquerque and New ...

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 ...

Rita McKenzie, the actress and singer best known for her boisterous performances in the one-woman show Ethel Merman’s Broadway, died Saturday in Los Angeles after a long illness, her husband, talent ...

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 ...