Word: broadway
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From start to finish, her life was Broadway legend. She believed in herself so fiercely that as an unknown she pushed her way into a job as a chorus girl in George White's celebrated Scandals...
Just now the center of the Beckett universe is a pair of off-Broadway houses on Manhattan's 42nd Street. In the Harold Clurman Theater, a trio of Beckett skits has been playing since June. And last week, at the newly named Samuel Beckett Theater next door, English Actress Billie Whitelaw opened in two short plays and a reading of the Beckett short story Enough...
...George Gershwin musical Girl Crazy, when Ethel Merman, 21, trumpeted out I Got Rhythm-and held a high C for 16 bars-the roar of the crowd was hers forever. When she died last week, after a career that included 14 musicals, and not one singing lesson, Broadway's theaters dimmed their lights for a minute at curtain time. As Merman once said: "Broadway has been very good to me-but then, I've been very good to Broadway...
...acre terrace and a waterfall. But her four marriages all ended in divorce; the last, to Actor Ernest Borgnine, in 1964, lasted 38 days. One of her two children, Ethel II, died of an overdose of alcohol and barbiturates in 1967. Although she made notable TV shows, especially with Broadway Star Mary Martin, Merman had only modest success in the movies, where her outsize performances sometimes seemed unreal. In perhaps the worst career setback, her role in the film of Gypsy went to Rosalind Russell...
Although Merman retired from Broadway in 1970, after playing the title role in Hello, Dolly, she continued to perform in concerts. Last year she underwent surgery for a brain tumor. Her philosophy to the end: "Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice." -By William A. Henry...