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Lisa Bobbert pays brilliant tribute to Broadway's original brassy broad in ETHEL, a fast, funny, and heartfelt musical cabaret celebrating the life and legacy of Ethel Merman. With her legendary ...

3 Free Outdoor Show Roundup: July 13-19 – Jazz, Standup & More As songwriter Frank Loesser used to say, in praise of singers whose voices could fill the theatre, “LOUD is good.” But some ...

Ethel Merman was an American singer and actress widely regarded as one of the greatest performers in the history of musical theater. Born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann on January 16, 1908, in New York City, ...

Klea Blackhurst reprises her valentine to a musical comedy idol, not just of hers but also of theater-goers many ages over. Smartly, the brassy-haired singer doesn’t do a mere impersonation of La Merm ...

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 ...