Word: merman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Critics' Circle, Broadway handed out its own laurels, the American Theater Wing's Antoinette Perry Awards, for the season's best work up to March 1. Best musical: Guys and Dolls. Best play: Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo. Other "Tonys" went to: Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman and Newcomer Russell Nype (for Call Me Madam); Uta Hagen (The Country Girl); Claude Rains (Darkness at Noon...
...arounds are South Pacific, with Mary Martin and Ray Middleton at the Majestic on 44th; Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, with Anno Jeffreys at the Shubert on 44th; Carol Channing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the Anita Loos satire at the Ziogfeld at 54th and Sixth Avenue; and Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam with Irving Berlin's music at the Imperial on 45th...
Call Me Madam. Big Broadway musical, with Ethel Merman as a lady ambassador to "Lichtenburg," but as, fortunately, no lady (TIME...
...juvenile lead in Call Me Madam, Co-Author Russell Grouse got him to put aside his contact lenses and put on horn rims. For the show's sake, willing Russell Nype has had his hair mowed down to a studious stubble. On opening night, he and Ethel Merman stopped the show with the hit duet, You're Just in Love, have been stopping it ever since...
...competition is furious. Producers' royalties have shot up to 10% per record, and producers switch unpredictably to different labels as they bring out new shows. RCA Victor cinched the rights to Call Me Madam by financing the musicomedy for $225,000, but had to do without Star Ethel Merman, whose recording contract committed her to do the songs for Decca...