New Memoir Remembers Legend Ethel Merman by Gordon Cox

Everyone knows Mama Rose's first line in 1959's "Gypsy." It's "Count four before you start, Louise!" Or at least it was. But one day in rehearsal Ethel Merman crossed it out for the line everybody now knows: "Sing out, Louise!" That nugget is among the discoveries in the Merman memorabilia collected by Tony Cointreau, an... Read more »

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