June Squibb at 96 still has sharp memories of Ethel Merman. Squibb appeared on the April 13 episode of Still Here Hollywood, ...

Belting a Broadway show tune takes a different skill than singing an operatic aria, a voice instructor says. Patrick Newell, founder of the Sweetland Voice Institute, will demonstrate the difference ...

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 ...

Ethel Merman's brass-band voice ruled Broadway from the 1930s on through the 1960s. In 1950 and 1951 she recorded a series of singles for Decca Records that covered novelty tunes and hit songs of the ...

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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, ...

The other half of the alert, though, was simply a statement of fact. Merman’s clarion voice, brusque style and ha-cha-cha exuberance made her musical theater’s indispensable star for decades. With the ...