Liza Minnelli's illustrious career, spanning over five decades, is a testament to her relentless passion, versatility, and timeless appeal. Also ranks #8 on The Best Actresses Who Won Oscars and Globes for the Same Role Also ranks #11 on The Most Musically Gifted Children of Musicians...
CabaretLiza Minnelli and Joel Grey inCabaret(1972), the film version of a Kander and Ebb musical.(more) There was also a growing subtlety in musicals, as in the French filmThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg(1964;Les Parapluies de Cherbourg); a tendency to use the musical to exploit the appeal of...
(1895–1976), a former Broadway dance director who presented elaborately staged dance sequences within the framework of well-worn stories. The Berkeley spectaculars such as the Gold Diggers productions (1933–37),Footlight Parade(1933), andForty-second Street(1933) often starred Joan Blondell,...
Sandwiched between ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Raging Bull,’ and fueled by equally large stacks of Hollywood money and cocaine, ‘New York, New York’ is a backstage musical about Francine Evans and Jimmy Doyle (played by Liza Minnelli and Robert DeNiro), the couple who wrote the eponymous ode ...
There is little reason to watch A Star Is Born (1976) more than once, or at most twice to confirm that the film lacks a bit. It’s not terrible but hardly memorable unless the desire is to giggle over an incredibly bad 1970s hairstyle by one of the greatest divas. ...
Minnelli spelled Gwen Verdon, who had to departChicagofor medical reasons. In 1977, she had a second Tony win for her starring role inThe Act. In 1984, Minnelli starred opposite Chita Rivera in the mother-daughter musicalThe Rink. All of Minnelli’s original roles on Broadway were in ...
Margaret* starred in Lanford Wilson’s THE MOONSHOT TAPE & A POSTER OF THE COSMOS, directed by Mark Cirnigliaro, also starring Geoff Stoner. A pair of one-act plays about taking control of destiny and retaliating against fate, THE MOONSHOT TAPE & A POSTER OF THE COSMOS played a one-...
It was one of the first of the so-called "concept" musicals, in which book, music, lyrics, scenery, costumes and lighting worked together to get across the show's idea. A 1972 film version was directed by Bob Fosse and starred Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Grey. ...
A handful of the tunes were from the score of Peter's final Broadway show for which he also starred, the not so lucky at the box office, Legs Diamond in late 1988.Often when we see a bio-musical, we love to look up more information about the subject's life and even when avai...
Tears flow freely and often, what with the high stakes of teenage emotions and the sheer cruelty behind the community’s intolerance. You also have Meryl Streep in a Liza Minnelli wig sauntering through torch ballads, tongue-in-cheek one-liners that lovingly skewer Broadway, ...