Liza Minnelli

[broadwayboy101]

Liza Minnelli#1

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]

re: Liza Minnelli#2

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]

re: Liza Minnelli#2

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

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

[Dollypop]

re: Liza Minnelli#3

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

What are her shows like?

Well, she does a lot of singing.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[PalJoey]

re: Liza Minnelli#4

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]

re: Liza Minnelli#5

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]

re: Liza Minnelli#6

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

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

"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Author Unknown

[husk_charmer]

re: Liza Minnelli#7

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.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[Yawper]

re: Liza Minnelli#8

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]

re: Liza Minnelli#9

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

Great story!

Diane

If I heard the bells and the banjos ring

[Silbee]

re: Liza Minnelli#10

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

[PalJoey]

re: Liza Minnelli#11

Posted: 3/12/26 at 11:44am

Happy 80th birthday, Liza.

[ACL2006]

re: Liza Minnelli#12

Posted: 3/12/26 at 12:44pm

The ultimate queen!!!

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[Highland Guy]

re: Liza Minnelli#13

Posted: 3/12/26 at 1:46pm

I am a few months younger than Liza.  My life has been enriched wherever her talent has taken me (stage, film, TV, recordings, writings).  Happy Birthday, Liza, and wishing you many more happy years ahead!   

Non sibi sed patriae

[nmartin]

re: Liza Minnelli#14

Posted: 3/12/26 at 9:31pm

My God! This thread was started in 2008, and I left two comments then.

Oh well, here's my comment now.

I still love Liza and will drive to L.A. from southern Nevada to see her at the Million Dollar Theater next week.