Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Behind the Broadway legend’s tough, self-assured exterior was a loving grandma that only Barbara and her brother got to see. “She ...

Edward Zimmermann married Agnes Gardner on Aug. 2, 1905 in Queens. Their only child, Ethel Agnes, was born on Jan. 16, 1908.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone knows Mama Rose’s first line in 1959’s “Gypsy.” It’s “Count four before you start, Louise!” Or at least it was. But one ...

It started off as a chance encounter with a drug-addicted female impersonator and turned into a personal anthem about being gay. Playwright and actor L. Robert Westeen’s one-man show Cocaine & Ethel ...

Two biographies of Ethel Merman in the same month? You may think that’s overkill, but you may also think that one biography of Ethel Merman is overkill, considering that there already are two, one of ...

Ethel Merman, who made her Broadway debut in 1930 in Girl Crazy, was born January 16, 1908. Merman went on to become one of the biggest Broadway stars of her era, a woman whose name is synonymous with ...

The voice – confident, throaty and resonant as a church bell – is unmistakable. “I never needed a microphone when I was on Broadway,” Ethel Merman announces from offstage. A moment later she’s in ...

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 ...

Rita McKenzie is America’s go-to girl when it comes to playing Ethel Merman. Since the early 1980s, the song-and-dance veteran and New Jersey native has been performing Merman’s most celebrated songs ...

"I have an idea! While cleaning up a little flood in the basement, I realized you have to open the boxes and give the contents some love or let them go. And so I am presenting The Ethel Merman ...

She may have died 31 years ago, but Ethel Merman’s coming to the ACT’s Geary Theater this summer, on her way — if all goes according to plan — back to Broadway. OK, it’s not really the Merm. But the ...

That nugget is among the discoveries in the Merman memorabilia collected by Tony Cointreau, an heir to the liqueur family. Cointreau considers Merman one of his “other mothers,” alongside Lee Lehman, ...