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1 day ago · Dolly Levi is closely associated with some of the true Broadway greats – Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand – said Matt Wolf in The New York Times.Staunton is "probably the only ...
3 days ago · Ethel Merman: Long associated with "There's No Business Like Show Business" from Annie Get Your Gun, Merman is "the undisputed First Lady” of musical comedy. She won a Tony for Call Me Madam and was nominated for originating the role of Rose in Gypsy.
5 days ago · Showtune Sunday: All about “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from Gypsy and who did it best? Cast your votes! I had not seen Imelda Stauton’s version which is fierce and had not heard Rosalind Russell’s own singing voice in the movie version. Love Lansbury and LuPone but Midler seems too upbeat in this number. Merman obviously has best ...
4 days ago · At age nine, Brooks went to a Broadway show with his maternal uncle Joe—a taxi driver who drove the Broadway doormen back to Brooklyn for free and was given the tickets in gratitude—and saw Anything Goes with William Gaxton, Ethel Merman and Victor Moore at the Alvin Theater.
4 days ago · She was the inspiration for Irving Berlin's musical Call Me Madam, which starred Ethel Merman as the character based on Mesta in both the Broadway play and the movie. She appeared on the March 14, 1949, cover of Time.
1 day ago · All we really need to do to sell this is let you know some of the classic comedy names in this film. We’re talking Sid Caesar, Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Ethel Merman and many ...
1 day ago · Our performers include Ethel Waters, Barbara Cook, Julie London, Fred Astaire, Pearl Bailey, Elaine Delmar, Gwen Verdon, Richard Kiley, Ethel Merman, and Michele Lee among others. If you don’t know Dorothy Fields’ work, please tune in for some of the greatest lyrics written for Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
