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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Following a hit run at the New York State Theatre and a national tour, Ethel Merman returned to Broadway as Annie Oakley in a revival of Annie Get Your Gun, playing the same role she originated 20 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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, ...