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1 Review: SILENT FILMS IN SOUND Is a Wonderful Trip Through History at Joe's Pub "I have an idea! While cleaning up a little flood in the basement, I realized you have to open the boxes and give the ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Rita McKenzie is such a natural as Broadway icon Ethel Merman, most audiences never realize it's all an act. But it's an act McKenzie has been playing quite convincingly for more than ...

Two biographies of Ethel Merman in the same month? You may think that’s overkill, but you may also think that one biography of Ethel Merman is overkill, considering that there already are two, one of ...

Varla Jean Merman (Jeffery Roberson) is optimistic about her future as a female impersonator: "The glass is not half empty — the glass is half not drunk." She brought her delightfully raunchy show, ...