“I think this is probably the first time that a show has transferred from Cherry Grove, Fire Island to Broadway,” Cumming said, referring to the almost exclusively gay beach town where the friends appeared during a July heat wave, cooling down between sets in a walk-in refrigerator. “Liza coming to Fire Island - can you imagine? It was like a papal visit,” Cumming said, recalling the friends’ two shows that spawned the sold out shows at Town Hall on Wednesday and Thursday. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.Singer Liza Minnelli and actor Alan Cumming perform during their one night only performance in New York, March 13, 2013.
Jonathan Groff recalled Minnelli attending a preview performance of “Spring Awakening” in 2006: “You were so generous and encouraging and enthusiastic and we couldn’t sell half of the house during previews and then you showed up and it felt like you blessed our company and our production and set us up for the beautiful run that we had on Broadway.”īefore Liza Minnelli Won an Oscar, She Got Serious With 'Sterile Cuckoo' and 'Junie Moon'Įverything Coming to Netflix in March 2021įinal Golden Globes Predictions: Best Motion Picture (Drama) – 'Nomadland' Gets the Slight Edge Over 'Chicago 7' Hosted by NY1 reporter Frank DiLella and produced by Daniel Nardicio, the evening’s bill also included Whoopi Goldberg, Coco Peru, Ute Lemper Michele Lee, Chita Rivera, Jason Alexander, Mario Cantone, Jane Krakowski, John Stamos, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Stritch, Kathy Griffin and Melissa Manchester. I’ll be right back.’”Īfter performing his number, when it was time to re-introduce Minnelli, Grey said, “Out you came, not in your chic, sleek, Liza Minnelli pantsuit, but in your bathrobe, telling the crowd, ‘I’m not quite ready,” which got a big laugh - even from me. Broadway star Liza Minnelli and fashion designer Halston were a regular sight together in the New York City nightclub scene in the 1970s and 80s.
So, I rushed on stage, pantsless, and said, ‘I’m not quite ready. On this particular night, I heard your announcement from my dressing room, and I was yet to put on my pants,” remembered Grey. I was on first, and you introduced me from offstage. Of the memories shared on Friday, Grey may have summed Minnelli the best, recounting a story from their early days touring the country. And in her shows like “Liza with a Z” and “Liza’s at the Palace,” she melded the singular sensation of a powerhouse solo act - like that of her mother’s - with the enduring precociousness of a modern Broadway icon. By “Cabaret,” she rode the musical’s modish, sex-infused return to the screen with Bob Fosse. When she moved to New York at age 16 - eschewing any help from her parents - she made it big on Broadway, winning a Tony in three years’ time.
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The daughter of July Garland and MGM director Vincent Minnelli - and goddaughter to Ira Gershwin - Minnelli’s early years touched the Golden Age of Hollywood, when the musical film drove the movie machine.
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In her 75 years, Minnelli has mirrored the full breadth of American musical theater in a way few performers have. “And the reason, my sweet sister, is because you’ve lived your entire extraordinary, Sally-Bowles kind-of life staying true to that very simple phrase.” “The song that really makes me think about you is one that Fred Ebb and John Kander wrote, called ‘Say Yes,’” recalled Joel Grey, Minnelli’s counterpart in “Cabaret,” for which she won an Academy Award for best actress in 1973.
And clear on Friday was the undeniable fact that Minnelli’s iconicism - ever a concoction of unadulterated talent and biography - is exactly what’s needed to keep the Broadway tradition alive. But, as one reviewer once wrote, Liza Minnelli isn’t a has-been. One of the world’s best-loved entertainers, she won Tony Awards. In the year since Broadway closed, star-studded birthday tributes like these - celebratory receiving lines at their best - haven’t changed much. Liza Minnelli was born in Los Angeles and made her screen debut as a toddler in the musical In the Good Old Summertime in 1949.
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