Word: merman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karen Morrow belts like Merman. Rob ert Guillaume and Gail Nelson do a stir ring duet from Porgy and Bess. It is all nostalgia, perhaps; yet most of the songs sound as fresh as opening night...
ANYTHING GOES was before our time -- 1943 to be exact -- but who cares? The less quibbling about the insertion of Cole Porter songs from other shows and the fewer praises for Ethel Merman, the better. Take the references to the WPA, the Depression and Prohibition as camp antiques or anachronisms, but take them. At Leverett House, anything goes, and almost everything goes well...
...Woman of the Year award has usually been given to an actress, although the Pudding did give it to Mamie Eisenhower in the 1950's. Some of the actresses who have won the award are Gertrude Lawrence, Katherine Hepburn, Ethel Merman, Rosiland Russell, Lauren Bacall and Shirley Maclaine...
...years, no one built a new legitimate theater on Broadway. Now there is one: the Uris Theatre, with 1,896 seats, at the base of a new 50-story office building. To celebrate its opening, a crowd of Broadway luminaries-including Ethel Merman, Thornton Wilder, Fred and Adele Astaire and a five-year-old girl named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First...
...Hello, Dolly! went on to become Broadway's longest-running musical, with 2,844 performances (My Fair Lady is second with 2,717). Channing was followed in Dolly's role by Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller and, finally, by Ethel Merman, who belted out the final hellos last week and then took the final curtain calls. "I feel sad and happy," said Ethel, "it's a bittersweet ending...