Ethel Merman News

In May, Back Stage Books will publish Just Outside the Spotlight: Growing Up With Eileen Heckart by her son Luke Yankee, with a foreword by Mary Tyler Moore

Christine Pedi will bring her show Great Dames to Birdland on April 3rd

BroadwayWorld offers an exclusive never-before-seen video interview with Elaine Stritch that was cut from Broadway: The Golden Age

Broadway: The Golden Age Week starts officially on Monday featuring daily, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN footage from Rick McKay's Broadway: The Golden Age Vaults. To kick things off, we checked in with the filmmaker about the success of the film, its upcoming airing on PBS, the sequels and lots more...

On February 27th, legends Barbara Cook and Elaine Stritch will star side by side in the cabaret evening 'In Alphabetical Order' at Lincoln Center

Everyone's a victim...of laughs

The show, will begin previews on April 3, 2006 and will open on May 1, 2006.

Two Broadway legends will share a stage when A Cabaret Performance: Barbara Cook and Elaine Stritch 'In Alphabetical Order' comes to Lincoln Center on February 27th

It is 40 years since Barbra Streisand graced the Prince of Wales Theatre with her presence in 'Funny Girl' and to celebrate the 40th Anniversary, Steven Brinberg will head to the U.K. direct from New York to play a special show in the sumptuous surroundings of The Delfont Room (Prince of Wales Theatre.)

Leave it to Chita Rivera to share the spotlight in a show about her own career. Arguably musical theatre's greatest living performer, she spends most of The Dancer's Life singing and dancing the praises of others.

BroadwayWorld.com and Barricade Books are pleased to announce the winners of the book 'Ethel Merman: The Biggest Star on Broadway' written by Geoffrey Mark.

The Autograph Suit, featuring the signatures of dozens of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judi Dench and Ethel Merman, will be auctioned off on eBay to fund a Broadway-bound musical premiering at a Pennsylvania high school

Elaine Stritch will welcome 2006 by performing an extra New Year's Eve show of At Home at the Carlyle before the show returns for a one-month stint on Jan. 3

Bea Arthur brought back her one-woman show, now titled Bea Arthur on Broadway & 95th St., to New York on November 21st

Bernadette Peters will host Best of Evening at Pops, featuring Carol Channing, Ethel Merman and others, on November 24th; the special airs on PBS

'Don't Cry For' National Tour of Evita

White Christmas returned to San Francisco this week after last year's successful holiday run at the Curran Theatre, and this year boasts separate productions in Boston and Los Angeles.

Patti LuPone has been confirmed as Rose in the Ravinia Festival's production of Gypsy, which will run from August 11th through 13th in 2006

Bernadette Peters will host 'Broadway's Best at Pops' on PBS; the program will feature performances by Ethel Merman, Carol Channing, Tommy Tune and others

The First Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival concludes with an afternoon of great performers and the great songs they introduced