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!

“Welcome to Lichtenburg,” sings Cosmo Constantine, foreign minister of the diminutive duchy, as he anticipates the arrival of the new ambassador from the United States. And too easy to knock down.” A ...

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 ...

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 ...

In "Call Me Madam," the 1953 movie version of Irving Berlin's hit musical, it was no secret that Ethel Merman was channeling a real person – a wealthy widow by the name of Perle Mesta, who, in the ...

Known as the “hostess with the most-est,” former U.S. minister to Luxembourg and native Oklahoman Perle Mesta left a lasting legacy in Oklahoma City. Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma presents “Call Me Madam, ...

NEW YORK — “Neither the character of Mrs. Sally Adams, nor Miss Ethel Merman, resembles any other person alive or dead.” So theatergoers who saw “Call Me Madam” when it opened on Broadway in 1950 were ...

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 ...