Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On this day in 1984, Ethel Merman, a Broadway institution known as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On this day in 1946, the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley came to life on ...

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 ...

Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First ...