Ethel Merman News

San Francisco's PBS affiliate, KQED TV9 and DT9, has several great up-coming Broadway and theatre-related broadcasts planned for the month of December, including Great Performances of 'Kiss Me, Kate' and 'Cinderella,' plus Audra McDonald Live at Lincoln Center!

From November 9th through November 12th, MAC Award-winning cabaret and theatre star Klea Blackhurst and pianist/singer Billy Stritch paid tribute to the great songwriter in 'Dreaming of a Song: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael.'

'Carol Channeling,' written and performed by Maggie Graham, will be performed for one night only at Joe's Pub on November 13th at 11:30 PM

Eugene Lee, who has been been designing at Trinity Rep since 1967, will be inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame

FRONT ROW CENTRE, a weekly program featuring original cast performances of Broadway's greatest hits returns to the Toronto airwaves starting Sunday November 12.

The WaterTowerTheatre's production of Man of La Mancha demonstrates the show still possesses superior music.

Tony Award-winner Elaine Stritch has extended her run in Elaine Stritch: At Home at the Carlyle...Again through November 11th

At the conclusion of the new musical on stage at the Theater at St. Clement's Church, an animated film of flowers blooming is projected on the cyclorama. It is supposed to represent a prayed-for miracle, however the lighting and the metallic confetti falling in front of it make the flowers appear out of focus and at times completely blurred. It seems a fitting way to end a show that has great promise but is completely out of focus in its present state

This week: Raising a Star, Ethel Merman: The Biggest Star on Broadway, I Could Have Sung All Night: My Story by Marni Nixon and the Playbill Broadway Yearbook!

A Broadway legend will return to the cabaret stage when Elaine Stritch: At Home at the Carlyle...Again opens on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, in the Café Carlyle

As the theatre season gets back into gear, BroadwayWorld.com tallies up some numbers that are quite impressive. Their biggest story to date has been an ongoing piece this summer titled 'What's on Your iPod?.' It boasts a host of theatre celebrities, singers and well-known industry professionals listing what they're listening to on their iPod. Due to the feature's huge popularity, it was extended to continue for over 40 days, concluding this Saturday, September 9, 2006.

Donna Lynne Champlin Reprises Role At New York Musical Theatre Festival

Sterling's Upstairs, the all-new supper club at Vitello's Restaurant in Studio City, CA. has announced a September roster of performers that includes Toni Morrell, Renee Laramore, Demars and Reins, Nelson Kole and Nita Whitaker

Gypsy, starring Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone in the towering role of Rose, played from August 11th through August 13th at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago

For many years the theater community wondered why Tony Award wining actress Patti LuPone had never been cast as Mama Rose in the various revivals of the legendary musical GYPSY...Finally, the part and the actress were brought together at Ravinia's Music Festival and the results surpassed expectations

Legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim will no longer appear before the Ravinia Festival in Chicago's August 11th performance of Gypsy, starring Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone as Rose.

A Broadway legend will return to cabaret stages when Elaine Stritch: At Home at the Carlyle...Again opens on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, in the Café Carlyle and plays through Saturday, November 4, 2006

Full casting has been announced for Ravinia's Gypsy, running August 11th through 13th; in addition, Sondheim will appear for a pre-show discussion on August 11th

Elaine Stritch will star in a new Noel Coward compilation show, which will open in London in December and then move to Broadway