Liza book promotion chat — Page 11

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Lorna's been busy.

J/k"

Thank God the signature is auto-pen or they’d be going ape s**t refunding all those pre-orders they couldn’t fill. 😝

TotallyEffed said: "Tickets for the Carnegie Hall tribute are damn expensive."

I wasn’t too too bothered by them. More than Hello, Dolly!, but a lot less than what I paid for Follies. Half an hour in and there’s still plenty sub-$100 tickets available. I do think my expectations for this concert are incredibly high and I’m hoping for an A++ cast.

I’m just glad the queue was well managed. I think I still have PTSD from the Chorus Line Actors Fund benefit! 😂

TotallyEffed said: "Really? I paid $99 for a beautiful orchestra seat for Follies. Can't afford $300-450 to sit on the floor for this, especially when we don't know who is performing or if Liza will show. They also changed "signed copy" to just "copy," which I guess isn't a surprise at this point. I settled for a nosebleed which was still pretty expensive.



I'm hoping for Joel Grey and Ben Vereen to make appearances."

I just looked through my email, and I paid about $60 for upper balcony for Dolly, but $500 for back orchestra for Follies. Not sure about the pricing on the latter, but it was definitely worth it! I went with about a $200 ticket for a mid level.

I didn’t notice the change from a signed copy, but I’m kinda surprised given that it’s basically been proven at this point they were either autopen or signed by other people. Seems silly to change it now. But also I didn’t really care about the physical book, so obviously not a dealbreaker.

Still waiting for my book.

Mine says “still awaiting fulfillment “. Very shady.

It’s likely very true that “all books were signed by the author” - because the author is Michael Feinstein.

Just like the book itself, Liza authorized Michael ‘to do what he needs to do’. This is essentially an authorized signature done by Michael and his team.

The only surprise to me was seeing autographs actually on the page - my two copies from Million Dollar Theater were on large blank stickers that I stuck inside.

Yeah, I was hesitant from the jump about buying a signed copy of her book and now I'm glad I didn't. I kept meaning to, but just didn't pull the trigger.

It’s baffling how her memoir clearly states on the cover that she didn’t write it yet people keep referring to things she wrote in her memoir.

as told to Michael Feinstein:

Am I correct to assume that all other book events that were cancelled with the promise of rescheduling are not happening?

Updated On: 5/15/26 at 01:23 PM

This is all just an unfortunate, graceless way for Liza's last years to play out.

It's easier for me to say this, I guess, since I neither bought tickets nor the book, but if it's given her pleasure to let someone do this book for her and for her to make a few public appearances, I don't begrudge her any of it. There's no way to know if the stories in the book are untrue. I rather doubt it, though much like Lady Sings the Blues (which for years was treated as largely fabrication, until better scholarship revealed more truth to it than most had thought), there may be issues of memory or what the person assembling the material chooses to emphasize.

I think the woman's life is, and for decades upon decades has been, a mess, so it isn't suprising the book and everything around its promotion is a mess. But I don't think she acting out of any ill-will or desire to cheat her public. She may indeed have believed she could record the book, sign copies herself, do multiple appearances, until confronted with reality and her simple inablity to fulfill her obligations. Wouldn't be the first time.

Updated On: 5/15/26 at 04:37 PM