Liza Minnelli

[broadwayboy101]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 8:14pm

So I'm going to see Liza Minnelli in concert for the first time in a few weeks. Can anyone tell me what her shows are usually like / what the usual setlist is?

[nmartin]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 9:38pm

I have seen Liza three times, Carnegie Hall, The Rink and the Stepping Out tour. Those were years ago. Where are you going to see her?

[broadwayboy101]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 9:45pm

Bass Hall in Ft. Worth. It's a one-night only thing.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 9:52pm

What are her shows like?

Well, she does a lot of singing.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 9:56pm

I saw Liza at the Concord Hotel, in the Catskills, in 1970, one year after her mother died and one year before she made Cabaret. I was 14.

She sang "Mister Bojangles" and "Maybe This Time," "God Bless the Child" and an amazing version of "Shine on, Harvest Moon." A drunken man yelled out that she should sing "Over the Rainbow" and she said, "There was only one woman who could sing that sing, and she's no longer with us." The audience applauded and the drunken man's wife escorted him out.

I went backstage and she let me hold her dog's leash. The dog pooped in the corridor outside the dressing room. Someone cleaned it up and said, "Don't tell Liza." Liza kissed me on the cheek and thanked me for walking her dog.

Thirty years later--I was now 44--I was seated at a dinner table with her and I told her that story. She pointed a finger at me and said, "I was just going to say...you LOOK very familiar!"

Updated On: 4/14/08 at 09:56 PM

[nmartin]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 10:09pm

Pal, I love that dog story. That's great.

BroadwayBoy, be sure and give a full report from Fort Worth.

[vbplayer]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 11:38pm

Is Liza touring? And NOBODY told me!!!??? Some friends (well sort of).

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 11:41pm

vbplayer-
No, it's a special concert for the 10th Anniversary of our Performing Arts Center from Hell.

[Yawper]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 12:40am

She has been touring but she's already played a lot of US dates and is now headed for Mexico and the UK. Her schedule is posted on her website.
link

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 3:10pm

Great story!

Diane

[Silbee]

Posted: 4/15/08 at 4:18pm

Minnelli = Charisma in spades. Even on her laurels, the rest is gravy.
Updated On: 4/15/08 at 04:18 PM