Star power: Liza Minnelli to perform at Stadium

on 10-04-2008 23:22
WOONSOCKET — The Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Center has announced that Academy Award-winning actress and singer Liza Minnelli will perform here next month.
Letters went out to subscribers over the weekend with the announcement that the entertainer will premiere her new show at the Stadium before taking it to the Palace Theatre in New York City.Performances will be Nov. 19, 20, 22 and 23 at 8 p.m. at the Stadium. Tickets go on sale Monday, Oct. 6, with prices ranging from $55 to $85.Minnelli’s performance in “The Sterile Cuckoo” brought her first Academy Award nomination, See LIZA, Page A-2but her winning role came in 1973 when she was named Best Actress for the film version of “Cabaret,” released in 1972.She has received three Tony Awards for her Broadway work, an Emmy Award for her 1972 television special “Liza with a Z,” a Grammy Legend Award, and Golden Globe Awards for “Cabaret” and the 1985 television movie “A Time to Live.”