"Liza's At The Palace" REVIEWS- Page 2

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:14am

There actually was a set (in addition to the band being on stage) and the lighting was also excellent. This is not a low-budget show at all. Only the best for Liza!!

[Yawper]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:27am

Looking at the pictures at gettyimages.com they show in attendance:

Alan Cumming
Cheyenne Jackson
Mary Louise Parker
Tommy Tune
Christine Ebersole
Sandra Bernhard
Vincent D'Onofrio
James Lipton
Mario Cantone
Tamara Tunie

and elsewhere I read mention of Shirley MacLaine, Tony Danza, Michelle Lee, Robert Osborne, Rex Reed, Liz Smith, and Cindy Adams.

[A Director]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:29am

I feel like a new man after seeing Liza perform live

And when it's a full moon, she heals the sick - the lame walk again, blind can see...

She got through opening night, what about the rest of the run? Place your bets!

[Yawper]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:35am

She'll be fine. She's in a better place now than ever before in her life.

[DAME]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 2:36am

She has been doing versions of this show all over the world for the last two years. She will be fine.

[A Director]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 3:05am

Not in Sweden.

[keithp]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 4:56am

I take it you've never been ill? - it happens. Given he number of concerts she has done over the years, she has a great record despite people like you wishing it otherwise.
Saw this show in Glasgow a few montsh ago and she was in great form.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 7:18am

Does she still change the lyrics to Cabaret to "I'm NOT going like Elsie"?
Who is the understudy?

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 8:13am

I guess Stephanie Block is the understudy.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 8:32am

"Does she still change the lyrics to Cabaret to "I'm NOT going like Elsie"? "

Yes...and it got a laugh.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 8:34am

Because it changes the whole meaning of the song? We have discussed this before, if you don't believe in the message of the song, don't sing it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 8:58am

Buzz, off Sue, this is LIZA! If you don't like the changed meaning of the song, DON'T FRIGGIN' LISTEN!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:14am

Don't tell ME to buzz off, you overstuffed bag of wind! How would you like it if they changed the song to "If they asked me I could send a text."? Huh? HUH? How about THAT?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:16am

Oh sh*t.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:20am

Leave Sueleen alone. It's not like she dared to find Marc Shaiman's video unfunny.

The Kay Thompson numbers were my least favorite part, too, when I saw her do this on the road over the summer. It seemed like there were more than four when I saw it. Maybe she (wisely) trimmed that section.

Is the hot "Andy Williams" still in it?

[jaystarr]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:29am

Did I tell you that Liza is gonna be GREAT? I'm glad you guys had a blast!

Sue- Yeah- she changed the lyrics of that song to I'm 'NOT' gonna be Elsie! It was over-emphasize too Me too! I thought it change the meaning of the whole song..as in Life is a Cabaret, old chum. no need to worry! live your life as you want it to be...oh well!

Wat- Did you get the recording?

CONGRATS TO Liza! I was glad I saw the show in R.I !

J*


Updated On: 12/4/08 at 09:29 AM

[jaystarr]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:32am

oh.. Were there people taking photos during the show at the Palace?

J*

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:41am

Yes, I bought the recording and have already listened to it three times. Didn't notice anyone taking photos during the show (but I'm sure people did). Someone next to me was recording it.

[voiceanthliveth]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:44am

WOW!! It takes a Broadway hater to point out that the song CABARET was WRITTEN, tested and work-shopped for Minnelli - she was the first person to even look at the music...i.e without Liza, the song and indeed the whole score would sound like something written for Tammy Grimes!

She can do whatever she wants to with it!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 9:49am

The rewritten lyrics don't bother me, since the "NOT!" was included by Fred Ebb himself, after Liza's 2nd (or 3rd--Yawper?) stint at rehab. It was inserted as a triumphant statement of survival and recovery, one that gave courage to recovering addicts everywhere. (In the 1990s, at certain 12-step meetings in Manhattan and West Hollywood, to "NOT go like Elsie" became the 13th step.)

What bothers me is that the Cockney accent that Liza has always used (questionably) for Elsie-from-Chelsea's voice at the end of the song (after "I remember how she'd turn to me and say...") has drifted, inexplicably, to the opening few words of the song.

So she starts off in a weird British accent ("Whoht goooood is seating, aleh-owhn in yaw rhee-oom...") that then disappears until the Elsie section.

But whoht the hey-ell--it's LIZA!

Updated On: 12/4/08 at 09:49 AM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 10:06am

It's no weirder than her Thelma Ritter ("Friday? Rumplemeyers?") or Nancy Mitford ("Oh, my darlings, my babies") accents that come and go when she's talking.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 10:08am

And just to put my two cents' worth in: she was great. She looked wonderful--sorry, "terrific!"--and sounded better than she has in a while. In fact, I thought her voice got noticeably better in the second act.

She seemed, as always, to be having a blast, so the audience did too.

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 10:12am

I like Liza. I hope LIZA at the Palace is a smash and quiets the doubters who seem to froth with glee in the hopes that she's going to fall apart onstage (or off).

But does it make me a bad homosexual to admit that I don't have any great desire to see her show?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 10:25am

I agree, Tulita. I think it will be a triumph for her.

But I went only because the bf had never seen her. But I'm glad I did.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 12/4/08 at 10:28am

"But does it make me a bad homosexual to admit that I don't have any great desire to see her show?"

Yes...you must see this.