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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Book of Merman, a new musical comedy in which two Mormon missionaries find themselves on Ethel Merman's doorstep, premiered Off-Broadway following a sold-out run in Chicago. Bringing Merman to ...

3 Review: THE JACKIE MASON MUSICAL: Laughs, Songs & Heart at Rodney's Comedy Club "I have an idea! While cleaning up a little flood in the basement, I realized you have to open the boxes and give the ...

As delightful as it is to hear the pure, unamplified human voice soaring beyond the footlights of a Broadway-size house, there’s little that’s delicious or de-lovely about “Call Me Miss Birds Eye,” ...

Look up “brassy” in the dictionary, and you should find a picture of Merman, the indefatigable queen of the Broadway musical for much of the 20th century. Though she made movies, some of which sent up ...

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 ...

That nugget is among the discoveries in the Merman memorabilia collected by Tony Cointreau, an heir to the liqueur family. Cointreau considers Merman one of his “other mothers,” alongside Lee Lehman, ...