Miss Minnelli sings more than 20 numbers, some old, some not so old, and some new. It knows its way around and has come up with a program that is perfect of its kind, It is a team responsible for both her movie “Cabaret” and her award‐winning TV special. The show has been written by Fred Ebb, who collaborated with his partner, John Kander, on the original musical material, and staged by Bob Fosse. She grin's, she dances, and she sings with voice of experience hut eyes childish with glistening hope. Even a seemingly contrived gesture -again that flick of nervousness, that interesting spasm of disbelief-adds to the total reality. Sometimes she is coming on strong, doing a Jolson number as Miss Showbusiness of 1932, then she will be a little girl lost in a Lord Fauntleroy velvet suit mourning in a tough way, the tattered loss of innocence.Īlways she is on. She seems to be playing a game with herself and with her audience. It is probably her nerviness, those stretched out moments of the spirit, that makes her performance so exciting. Then look for that sudden insecure glance she sometimes gives, aimed at the middle distance of nowhere, apparently seeking some reassurance. Her hands - sometimes clenching, sometimes limp at her sides, sometimes seeming to force body and voice on. It is compulsive and,‐ for all its ease, a little agonized. It is not the sheer powerhouse drive of some singers, but rather the result of some exciting internal tension. ![]() She is Liza-Liza Minnelli, that is - and she opened last night for a threeweek stint at the Winter Garden and made that old Winter Garden seem like summer again. She takes her calls like a little girl, a sudden bob of a curtsy, a mischievous flash of a grin. WITH: Lisa Minneili, Pans Barlow, JIMMY Roddy, Silencer Henderson, Sharon Wylie. Fosse and Ron Lewis original musical material be Mr Ebb and Joh!, Kander musical coordinatcr, Marvin Hanillsch musical conductor, Jack Fresnch lighting by Jules Fisher, audio design, Phil Ramone sound, Stan Miller coordinated by Bill Liberman, Presented by the Shubert Organization, In association with Rev Delsener. LIZA, a one woman show, Directed bi Bob Fosse: written he Fred Ebb choreographed by Mr. She is also very sexy-in an old‐fashioned way that I was beginning to think had. ![]() She has urchin hair, big gypsy eyes, good legs, lovely expressive hands, and a voice that can purr, whisper, snarl and roar.
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