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 ...

3 Interview: Joseph Ball & Ekaterina “Katya” Helpman of That’s Joe Biz Productions Talk WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE Co-hosted by TMTP artistic director Bill Rudman and music director Nancy Maier, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Two Mormon missionaries have an unexpected encounter with a singing legend when they knock on the door of Ethel Merman’s house in the hilarious musical “The Book of Merman,” presented Feb. 3-26 at the ...

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 ...

“These songs” included “Sam and Delilah,” “Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!” and, of course, “I Got Rhythm,” which, when she blasted it out at the end of act one, made Broadway history. No one had ever ...