Liza Minnelli Stepping Out! 2015

Liza Minnelli Stepping Out! 2015

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Best of Liza...from Italy website


The program of the concert previews many between its more {bigger?} smash hits, from historical pieces like Cabaret, Maybe This Time, And The World Goes Round, and beyond, and naturally to New York New York, all truely written for her from two "monsters" of Broadway John Kander and Fred Ebb, authors also of the huge musical Chicago. Liza will also dedicate an affectionate tribute to her godmother Kay Thompson, arranger and vocal coach of personages like Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and Vincente Minnelli, the father of Liza, and will be supported by four formidable dancers/singers in thrilling pieces of Thompson's act, comprised of famous numbers like I Love a Violin, Clap Your Hands, Jubilee Time, and Hello Hello.Then here's the part from the True Diva section:The Biggest Icon of the show From Diva of the American cinema to interpreter of some of the biggest smash hit musicals of all time, the unforgettable star of Cabaret and New York New York fascinates once again, bewitching and moving. Her eyes shine, and are only and inimitabile in the gestures and expressive voice. Between great stars, she remains divine, historic, the last true animal of the stage: and knows it. From she sees her public there it loves and it, she enters in tuning, she takes for hand and the door {?} to it to the visibilio {? visible?} also with a single song. It was 1989 when in Milan the Palatrussardi {?} accommodated a memorable concert with Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr. and the great Frank Sinatra. Nineteen years after, the magic is repeated with the single Liza in the theater, ready to once again bewitch and to astonish her numerous fans: between desire and nostalgia, an event that writes another history page of the show.Pure Talent Daughter of actress/singer Judy Garland and of the director Vincente Minnelli, she begins her career at 3 years, playing side by side her mother in the film "In the Good Old Summertime". Still young, for her exceptional interpretation in "Flora, the Red Menace" on Broadway, she wins her first Tony Award for best actress in a musical. In '72 with the film "Cabaret", wins an Oscar. Her acting bears also a Golden Globe and a British Film Academy Award. In '77 she acts beside Robert DeNiro in the huge musical "New York, New York" , directed by Martin Scorcese and in 1981 with Dudley Moore, has success with the film "Arthur". Her tour with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., "The Ultimate Event" at the end of '80 is unforgettable. In '97, she acted in the great musical comedy "Victor/Victoria", one of the biggest smash hits on Broadway. Liza reappeared in the theater in '99 to offer a tributo to her father with a show titled "Minnelli on Minnelli" at New York's Palace Theatre. In 2002, after a serious disease, she returns to sing to the Beacon Theatre in New York. She prevails with the album of entitled return "Liza's Back!" It comes after few months. Liza Minnelli today continues her extraordinary musical career with a world-wide tour that reportedly ends in Italy.And then this is the text that appears alongside the gallery:An Extraordinary Event The Theatre of Taormina has received this year the great return of Liza Minnelli with a show of other times. A crowd in the thousands, a unforgettable standing ovation, a natural frame mozzafiato {? I have a feeling it has to do with the type of venue...look at the pic}, more than 4,000 persons stregate {?} from the magic of an irrepeatable evening. Liza has said of that occasion, "To be in Tormina is an honor and to exhibit me in this theatre is pure emotion: the air breathed is music."

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