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!

Russell Nype, the clean-cut actor and baritone singer who won Tony Awards for his performances alongside Ethel Merman and Elaine Stritch in 'Call Me Madam' and 'Goldilocks,' respectively, has died. He ...

“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 ...

Carmen Cusack, Tony-nominated for 'Bright Star,' leads the Encores! staging of 'Call Me Madam,' the Irving Berlin musical that previously scored triumphs for Ethel Merman and Tyne Daly. By Frank ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Jesse Green “Neither the character of Mrs. Sally Adams, nor Miss Ethel Merman, resembles any other person alive or dead.” So theatergoers who saw ...

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!

A [1950] hit musical on Broadway, Call Me Madam scored a run of close to two years in Gotham with Ethel Merman, as Ambassador Sally Adams, the fabulous Femme diplomat, representing the US in the ...

Reviving musicals that were tailored for a particular star is tricky business. If the work has a worthy book, it may sustain a wide variety of interpretations. But if the script is slight, the best ...

Call Me Madam was a good topical musical. Now as an historical motion picture, it is even better. For Call Me Madam was filmed as a part of the past--1951, when Harry Truman was entrenched in the ...

Call me dazzled. This concert adaptation (Charles Repole and Bill Russell) of the original book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse is a remarkably clean and uncluttered piece of work, directed with ...