With the opening of Merman's Apprentice a few weeks away, I thought I would do part 2 of Ethel's great video appearances. Don't forget to visit http://www.sonomaartslive.org/ to get your tix and Mr. Cole and Mr. Evans will be there to chat you up and sign the fabulous Birdland Concert CD which will be sold in the lobby! So let's get to the Merman TV goodies. 6. From that bi-centennial year of 1976 and a TV event appropriately called The Big Event, we get Merman in her natural habitat...upstairs at Sardi's! (after trudging thought Shubert Alley in the rain singing to a playback). I remember the night well as I could not watch it live. I had tickets for the revival of Porgy and Bess at the Ur
TEN GREATEST ETHEL MERMAN TV APPEARANCES Part 1 (The First Five) With Merman's Apprentice opening in less than one month, I was thinking about Ethel Merman's ten greatest TV appearances. Despite Merman being the "Queen of Broadway," she secretly longed for the wider fame that movies and TV would bring. TV especially! Ethel placed herself on the tube from the earliest days in the late 1940s all the way up to her last years in the 1980s. This kept her in front of the public and brought them out to see her in concert and on the stage. So let's take a look at The 10 Greatest TV Appearances of The Merm! 1. The Texaco Star Theatre starring Milton Berle. (1949) Just at the end of Ethel's long run
