Ethel Merman

On stage 16 productions, 45 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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George White’s Scandals

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In the literature8 passages

• Oh my God, some of the things we said. The actress playing my character’s sister, Caroline O’Connor, who later went on to appear as Ethel Merman in De-Lovely, would begin the conversation by introducing Stefanie Powers as Ginger Dungbucket. That’s all it took. We were off. One of the boys, dressed as a waiter for the scene, would serve us…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• Since this was a revival of an older show, the animals were just props. I actually knew stagehands who worked on the original production with Ethel Merman. They told me some pretty scary stories of the tryouts in Philadelphia. In the original script, as in real life, the characters had a monkey. During the tryouts, the monkey destroyed th…ebooks/Berloni, Bill/Broadway Tails_ Heartfelt Stories of Rescued Dogs Who Became Showbiz Superstars - Bill Berloni & Jim Hanrahan.txt
• The 1936 Anything Goes adaptation may have cut or mutilated much of Porter, but it does give audiences a chance to see the original Ethel Merman in her prime and fine film portrayals of Billy Crocker by the young Bing Crosby, and the character of Moon by Charlie Ruggles. It also delivers a surprising amount of the original Broadway libret…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Another song intended for this scene, “Kate the Great,” was, according to the recollection of Anything Goes orchestrator Hans Spialek, rejected by Ethel Merman who “vouldn’t sing it” because it was a “durr-ty song!” 8 A song planned as a tongue-in-cheek romantic duet in act I, scene 6, between Hope and Billy, “Waltz down the Aisle” (which…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• • The 1936 Paramount Anything Goes retains much of the original plot, a surprising amount of dialogue from the 1934 libretto, the original star Ethel Merman, a small sampling of the songs Porter wrote for the stage version, and more than an equal number of new songs by other composers and lyricists.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Anything Goes , 1936 film. Billy Crocker (Bing Crosby, left), Reno Sweeney (Ethel Merman, upside down center), and Rev. Dr. Moon (Charles Ruggles, right).ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt

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