LIZA WITH A 'Z' TO BE REBROADCAST!!!!

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 3:31pm

HELL YES!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=4000

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 3:41pm

All str8 men like you feel that way!

[MusicalComedyMan]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 3:48pm

WOO HOO!!!

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 4:07pm

PRAISE GOD!!!! Now I just have to get Showtime! Will it be put on DVD!?

[bta212]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 8:23pm

"Showtime--gayer than LOGO"

Setting the TiVo and calling the gang...

Updated On: 7/17/05 at 08:23 PM

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 9:35pm

Nickelodeon is gayer than LOGO.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 9:51pm

It's about time this classic was re-broadcast.

There is a mistake in the press release. It states that NBC broadcast the show ONCE only. Actually they showed it again in April 1973 about a month after the Oscars. But since then it has never been rerun or issued on video.

If you have the TV soundtrack album (on Columbia) you have the audio of virtually the whole show. Now you can see what Liza was like before she had "too much pills and liquor!"

[roquat]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 10:53pm

I'm so happy! Now the generation that only knows Liza as a campy self-parody can see what she was like in her heyday, when her gigantic personality and outsized talent made her a star!

[Marquise]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 11:03pm

Kinda sad she let it all go to waste....

[roquat]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 11:06pm

Yes it is, but she ain't dead yet.

[DAME]

Posted: 7/18/05 at 2:38am

I don't think she let it all go to waist. I thnk two hip replacements, ncephalitis, age and vocal chords surgery contributed to a difficult period. But I saw her in concert last year in Atlanta and she still has IT. Sure she really can't dance anymore. And the voice is not the same. But she sells a song like no other

Updated On: 7/18/05 at 02:38 AM

[Yawper]

Posted: 7/18/05 at 2:59am

whoa! - encephalitis, ie 'brain fever', but no brain surgery for Liza (thank God).

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/18/05 at 11:59am

I have a copy of the show on VHS that was transferred from BETA. I am SO excited about seeing a very clear version of it.

Updated On: 7/18/05 at 11:59 AM

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/18/05 at 12:05pm

Wonder Boy -- it was filmed on 16 mm film -- so it will always have a slightly grainy/hazy quality to it even with the best of restoration.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/18/05 at 12:05pm

Yay!

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 7/18/05 at 12:09pm

It is a crime when a talented artist's demons take control and destroy the very talent that made them special.

It angers me to think of the wonderful films, shows and songs the fans aren't able to enjoy because of some personal problem that takes control.

Can you imagine if Garland had lived a healthy life, the joy her additional work would've brought.

One can argue that her demons fed her talent and I suppose to a degree that is true.

Same with Minnelli - I am a fan of her work surrounding the time of Cabaret, this TV special included, but shortly thereafter, she gave into her weakness and destroyed her artistic output.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 7/19/05 at 9:55am

Liza With A Z was rebroadcast during the Oscar balloting in 1973. It was a very shrewd move as the film has been released in early 1972. The Best Actress race was very tight that year with Berry Gordy throwing many dollars at a huge campaign for Diana Ross and Cicily Tyson was not exactly chopped liver.

This was a very subtle way of showcasing nominee Liza doing numbers from her Cabaret performance without ever saying "VOTE LIZA!"

Liza also did a lot of talk show rounds during the voting period.

I guess it all paid off.