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. With the ...

Call Me Madam (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) opened with an advance sale of over $1,000,000 and the sort of fabulous buildup that ...

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 ...