Word: merman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Vicki Cummings, 50, stage and television comedienne, noted for her sardonic wit; of cancer; in Manhattan. On and off the stage, she had a voice as brassy as Ethel Merman's and a tongue as agile as Dorothy Parker's; she made her Broadway debut in 1931's Here Goes the Bride, scored hits in 1943's Voice of the Turtle, 1953's Mid Summer and 1966's The Butter and Egg Man revival, and appeared in more than 200 TV shows, most notably The Man Who Came to Dinner and Burlesque...
...Blow, Gabriel, Blow, and of course the title song Anything Goes are just four of the numbers that made Cole Porter's 1934 musical the tops for so long. It is still going strong, with Gretchen Wyler playing the original Ethel Merman role...
Tamara Long, as the slinky heavy, brandishes a flaming Morganitic torch for her Mister Man, and Sally Stark, as Ruby's peroxided pal, belts a note almost as plangent as the great Merman's. The comic delight of the show, though, is Bernadette Peters, whose Ruby can simultaneously sing and dance up a storm that puts all New York (including Queen Mane of Rumania) at her feet. She can also lament her unrequited love with a tear that streaks mascara down her cheek in a lugubrious perfection of timing...
AROUND THE WORLD OF MIKE TODD (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Ethel Merman, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lowell Thomas, Art Buchwald and Elizabeth Taylor reminisce about the life and career of the late show-business entrepreneur. Orson Welles narrates...
...formerly wed to California Socialite Henriette Erhart Ruggles and Songstress Ethel Merman...