The other half of the alert, though, was simply a statement of fact. Merman’s clarion voice, brusque style and ha-cha-cha exuberance made her musical theater’s indispensable star for decades. With the ...

For the second time in Encores! history - and as a tip of the hat to City Center's legacy - we’'e reviving one of our own revivals. Call Me Madam was the highlight of the second season of Encores!

Russell Nype, a singer and actor who won two Tony Awards in the 1950s, one for a role alongside Elaine Stritch in “Goldilocks” and another for his part in “Call Me Madam,” which included a rousing, ...

Lili (M-G-M). An elfin little musical that never quite gets lost in its own whimsy; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March 9). Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox). Ethel Merman’s ...

The other half of the alert, though, was simply a statement of fact. Merman’s clarion voice, brusque style and ha-cha-cha exuberance made her musical theater’s indispensable star for decades. Without ...

For the second time in Encores! history - and as a tip of the hat to City Center's legacy - we’'e reviving one of our own revivals. Call Me Madam was the highlight of the second season of Encores!

There’s no better set of songs on the London stage than Irving Berlin‘s for Call Me Madam, a 1950 musical written for Ethel Merman in the wake of a coarse-grained Washington DC party-giver, Perle ...

It will be interesting to see how this 1950 political parody, being performed as part of the “Ovations!” concert series, will play in 2001. Written for Ethel Merman by songwriter Irving Berlin as a ...