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Episode Detail: The Private Life of Ethel Merman - Theater Talk

Ethel Merman (1908-84) is remembered by her friends Tony Cointreau and Jim Russo, who share mementos and treasures that she left them, including a notebook that's filled with her day-to-day observations about her life and career.

Episodes: Theater Talk - 217 total Episodes

6/6/2013: The Nance
5/30/2013: Season's End Critics' Panel 2013
5/23/2013: Tony Awards Predictions
5/16/2013: Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein: Kinky Boots
5/9/2013: Matilda the Musical
5/2/2013: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Finks
4/25/2013: In the Lower Depths with Barbra; On Broadway with Evans & Feldman
4/18/2013: A Conversation With Actor/Playwright Jesse Eisenberg
4/11/2013: Vineyard Theatre's 30th Anniversary
4/4/2013: A New Take on Cinderella
3/28/2013: Amy Herzog on Belleville; Joe Allen on Restaurant Row
2/28/2013: Top Casting Directors Explain It All
2/21/2013: Elaine Stritch's 88th Birthday Bash
2/14/2013: Spring Season Preview 2013
2/7/2013: The History and Heritage of Broadway, Its Songwriters and Its Performers
1/24/2013: William Ivey Long
1/10/2013: The Fall 2012 Season in Review
1/3/2013: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
12/27/2012: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; My Name is Asher Lev
12/20/2012: Ed Asner
11/29/2012: Scandalous
11/22/2012: Nice Work If You Can Get It; West Side Story
11/8/2012: Checkers
11/1/2012: Ethan Mordden on Lotte Lenya & Kurt Weill
10/25/2012: Fall Season Preview
10/18/2012: The Private Life of Ethel Merman
10/4/2012: Christopher Bram on "Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America"
9/26/2012: Bruce Jay Friedman: Lucky Bruce
7/26/2012: Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
7/5/2012: Simon Gray
6/28/2012: Lewis Black & Nancy Giles
6/21/2012: Tony Wrap-Up
6/14/2012: A Streetcar Named Desire; Rob Bartlett
6/7/2012: Peter and the Starcatcher's Elice & Rees
5/31/2012: Tony Predictions 2012
5/24/2012: Menken & Fierstein: Newsies
5/17/2012: Brantley, Marks, and Teachout Review the Spring Season
5/10/2012: One Man, Two Guvnors
5/3/2012: Gore Vidal: The Best Man
4/26/2012: Singer Marilyn Maye
4/19/2012: Taymor vs. Bono; Remembering Theodore Mann
4/12/2012: Venus in Fur: Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy
4/5/2012: The Producers of "Smash"
3/29/2012: Sir Tim Rice
3/8/2012: The Best of Theater Talk: Christopher Plummer and John Simon
3/1/2012: On Wit and Silence
2/23/2012: Seminar
2/16/2012: Spring Season Preview
2/9/2012: Kevin Spacey
2/2/2012: Critics' Winter Rampage
1/12/2012: New Follies; Critic Isherwood
1/5/2012: Follies '71 and Jackie Hoffman
12/29/2011: Hugh Jackman Holiday Celebration
12/22/2011: Lysistrata Jones and Shock Value
12/15/2011: Stiller and Meara
12/1/2011: Chinglish; Standing on Ceremony
11/17/2011: Frank Langella: Man and Boy
11/10/2011: Paige and Raines of Follies
11/3/2011: Behind the Scenes at "Spider-Man"
10/27/2011: Veterans of Follies '71
10/20/2011: Fall Season Preview
10/13/2011: Regarding Terence Rattigan
7/28/2011: Sheldon Harnick
7/21/2011: Alan Menken
7/14/2011: Alan Menken
7/7/2011: Producers Manny Azenberg and Michael David
6/30/2011: Critics Review the Spring Season
6/23/2011: Sir Nicholas Hytner and 2011 Tony Wrap-up
6/16/2011: John Leguizamo & Larry Kramer
6/9/2011: The Book of Mormon's Cast, Choreographer & Co-Director Tell All
6/2/2011: Tony Predictions
5/26/2011: Remembering Arthur Laurents
5/19/2011: Jerusalem
5/12/2011: Rock, Cannavale, Guirgis: The Mother With the Hat
5/5/2011: Alan Arkin: An Improvised Life
4/28/2011: Shaiman and Wittman on Catch Me if You Can
4/21/2011: Good People
4/14/2011: Harvey Fierstein
4/7/2011: Peter Gelb: The Changing Face of the Metropolitan Opera
3/31/2011: The Book of Mormon
3/24/2011: Dick Cavett
3/17/2011: Dick Cavett
3/3/2011: The Importance of Oscar Wilde; Priscilla Preview
2/24/2011: F. Murray Abraham
2/10/2011: Three Sisters
2/3/2011: Theater Talk
1/20/2011: Theater Talk
1/13/2011: Stiller and Meara
1/6/2011: Critics Review the Season and the State of Their Art
12/30/2010: Elaine Stritch
12/23/2010: Colin Quinn and Todd Robbins
12/16/2010: Ethan Mordden on 'The Guest List'
12/9/2010: John Cullum; Eric Bentley's 94th Birthday
11/25/2010: The Merchant of Venice; Jill Clayburgh
11/25/2010: Regarding Shylock; Remembering Jill Clayburgh
11/18/2010: Mrs. Warren's Profession
11/11/2010: The Pitman Painters & Brief Encounters
11/4/2010: The Divine Sister
10/28/2010: Elaine Stritch
10/21/2010: Broadway Fall Preview
7/23/2010: 50 Fantastic Years of The Fantasticks
7/15/2010: Jules Feiffer
7/13/2010: George Packer
7/8/2010: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
7/1/2010: Critics Spring Retrospective
6/24/2010: Tony Wrap Up and Marian Seldes
6/17/2010: Tony Nominees Linda Lavin and Twyla Tharp
6/10/2010: Britain's Baz Bamigboye
6/3/2010: Tony Predictions Special
5/27/2010: Fences' Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Kenny Leon
5/20/2010: Christopher Walken
5/13/2010: From MTV to Broadway
5/6/2010: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
4/29/2010: Robert Osborne
4/22/2010: Legendary Producer Ted Mann
4/8/2010: Party Animals
4/1/2010: Janeane Garofalo and Carol Kane: Love, Loss, and What i Wore
3/25/2010: Waking Sleeping Beauty
3/18/2010: The Scottsboro Boys
3/11/2010: Oscar Nominee Maury Yeston
3/4/2010: Maury Yeston
2/25/2010: Playwright Douglas Carter Beane
2/18/2010: Time Stands Still's Margulies and Bogosian
2/11/2010: A View From the Bridge
2/4/2010: Producers, Orphans, and Things 'Under the Radar'
1/28/2010: Spring Season Preview
1/7/2010: Ragtime
12/31/2009: The Understudy
12/24/2009: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
12/17/2009: The Legacy of the Great Ziegfeld; Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles
12/3/2009: Sir Alan Ayckbourn
11/26/2009: Idiot Savant and Jude Law's 'Cerebral' Hamlet
11/19/2009: The Lyrics of Johnny Mercer
11/12/2009: George S. Kaufman and The Royal Family
11/5/2009: Fela! Creative Team and the Magic of Finian's Rainbow
10/29/2009: Jordan Roth; Neil Simon
10/22/2009: Look to the Rainbow: The Legacy of Yip Harburg
10/15/2009: Season Preview
10/8/2009: A Walk Through the Players Club
7/23/2009: A Chorus Line: Every Little Step
7/16/2009: Our Town: Then and Now
7/9/2009: Lewis Black and Nancy Giles
6/25/2009: Celebrating 'The Boys in the Band'
6/18/2009: Irena's Vow: The Truth Behind the Legend
6/11/2009: Tony Wrap-Up
6/4/2009: Mary Stuart; Reasons To Be Pretty
5/28/2009: Critics' Calvacade
5/21/2009: Tony Predictions Special
5/14/2009: 'Hair': Then and Now
5/14/2009: Angela Lansbury: Blithe Spirit
5/7/2009: 'God of Carnage' Cast
4/30/2009: Jane Fonda
4/23/2009: Geoffrey Rush
4/16/2009: The Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein
4/2/2009: Arthur Laurents
3/26/2009: 'Ruined' and a New Critical View
3/19/2009: Celebrity Autobiography
3/12/2009: Guthrie Theater
3/5/2009: Remembering Harold Pinter
2/26/2009: Becky Shaw; Remembering Tin Pan Alley
2/19/2009: Garry Hynes and Marie Mullen
2/12/2009: Frank Langella
2/5/2009: Spring Preview
1/29/2009: Remembering Betty Comden
1/22/2009: Christopher Plummer and John Simon
1/15/2009: Lee Hall on Billy Elliot
1/8/2009: Are Drama Critics Necessary?
1/1/2009: Brits on Broadway
12/25/2008: Dividing the Estate
12/18/2008: Harvey Fierstein
12/11/2008: Remembering Clive Barnes
12/4/2008: Peter Morgan on Frost/Nixon
11/27/2008: Shaiman & Wittman on Prop. 8
11/20/2008: Stephen Daldry
11/13/2008: Frank Langella
11/6/2008: Lawrence Wright
10/30/2008: Equus
10/30/2008: Daniel Radcliffe & Richard Griffiths
10/23/2008: Producers Emanuel Azenberg and James Freydberg
10/16/2008: Estelle Parsons
10/9/2008: Broadway Season Preview
10/6/2008: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
10/2/2008: Forum at the Guthrie
9/11/2008: Arthur Laurents: Gypsy
9/11/2008: 10th Anniversary
9/3/2008: Annie Composer Charles Strouse
8/21/2008: Annie Composer Charles Strouse
8/15/2008: South Pacific Then and Now
8/7/2008: Al Hirschfeld and Art Spiegelman
7/31/2008: Patrick Stewart and Rupert Goold
7/31/2008: Neal Gabler
7/24/2008: Michael Blakemore
7/24/2008: George Wendt; Javerbaum & Schlesinger
7/17/2008: Albert Maysles
7/17/2008: Theater Talk
7/10/2008: Jersey Boys
7/10/2008: John Waters
7/3/2008: Tim Rice on 'Chess'
6/29/2008: Tony Awards Wrap-Up
6/27/2008: 12th Annual Tony Predictions Show
6/26/2008: John Heilpern on John Osborne
6/20/2008: Sir Tim Rice
6/19/2008: David Hyde Pierce, Edward Hibbert, and Karen Ziemba; Duncan Sheik
6/11/2008: Critics Cavalcade
5/25/2008: Rent; Billy Elliott
4/6/2008: Theater Talk
4/3/2008: John Lahr and Elizabeth Ashley on 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'
3/27/2008: Robert F.X. Sillerman
3/20/2008: Stew and Heidi Rodewald
3/13/2008: Charles Isherwood, David Rooney and Linda Winer
3/9/2008: Ian McShane and Raul Esparza
3/6/2008: Edward Albee
2/28/2008: Conleth Hill and Ciarán Hinds
2/21/2008: Tom Stoppard
2/14/2008: The Letters of Noel Coward
2/7/2008: Chazz Palminteri
2/3/2008: Theater Talk