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The First Lady, like many before her, favored de la Renta's designs. Here, she and the designer pose next to a dress de la Renta donated to the Spring Fashion 2004 Heart of Truth Campaign. Liza Minnelli is auctioning off her “Cabaret” costume, her Halston gowns and items belonging to her mother, Judy Garland, as she works to “downsize her life.” Minnelli is selling off her. Hell hath no fury like Liza Minelli’s publicist, apparently, who gifted a no doubt red-cheeked Shia LaBeouf a DVD copy of Cabaret following his theatre arrest last week.

By Huntingtonnews.net Staff August 30. Huntington, WV (HNN) - Share an evening with an American icon who has run with the Rat Pack, bedazzled Broadway, captivated in “Cabaret”, and was adored by “Arthur.” LIZA MINNELLI, one of the most versatile, highly regarded and best-selling entertainers to ever live, will grace the stage of the KEITH-ALBEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER on Sunday September 12, at 7:00 PM as the kick-off event of the 74th season of the Marshall Artists Series. Speaking of kick-offs, the Liza Minnelli performance caps off a full weekend of events happening in Huntington in conjunction with the Friends of Coal Bowl matchup between Marshall University and WVU. Liza Minnelli embodies the very definition of a living legend, with Tony’s, Grammy’s, Emmy’s, Golden Globes, Legend awards to her credit, Minnelli’s trophy cases are anything but bare. Born in Hollywood, California to the celebrated actress Judy Garland and director of timeless film classics such as Kismet, and Meet Me in St. Louis, Vincente Minnelli, Liza Minnelli was destined to be a star. Starting off as a gifted lounge singer, Minnelli rose to international stardom for her appearance as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical, Cabaret, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

After which she started in the first concert ever filmed live for television in 1972, “Liza with a Z. Liza Minnelli’s accomplishments range from hosting the first-ever TV broadcast of “The Wizard of Oz,” at age 10, reaching a viewing audience of about 45 million people; Winning a Tony Award at age 19 (the youngest woman to win leading actress); Filling in for an ailing Julie Andrews in Broadway’s, Victoria/Victoria, and paying tribute to her father in Broadway’s Minnelli on Minnelli at New York’s Palace Theatre. In 2008 Liza returned to Broadway with Liza's at the Palace., which went on to win her fourth Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event. She recreated the show at the MGM Grand where her performance was filmed for a public television special and a DVD. The show's cast recording was then nominated for a Grammy Award. Liza continues her extraordinary music career with ongoing concert tours in the U.S.

And Europe, as well as recording a new album, Confessions, which will be released in September 2010; she even had her own cameo appearance in the May 2010 release of Sex in the City2 along with a few tracks on the movie soundtrack. Don’t miss the event of a lifetime! See Liza Minnelli with her first ever appearance in the area Sunday September 12, at 7:00 PM.! Tickets for Liza Minnelli are on sale now for $45.00, $65.00, $85.25. Tickets may be purchased at the Marshall Artists Series Box Office, located on the right side of the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center, or by calling (304) 696.6656. Patrons can also visit www.marshallartistsseries.org for ticket information.

The box office is open Monday through Friday from noon – 5:00PM. Tickets can also be purchased at any Ticketmaster location, including online at www.ticketmaster.com. My review of Liza's show in San Diego, August 28th.

Liza fan Anthony & his dad. Hey guys, I'm back. Here is my review of Liza's show in San Diego last weekend. I went, I saw, Liza was fantastic. The much needed rest from the stage that Liza took seems to have helped her knees a good deal.

She was practically dancing at the show. She only sat down in the director's chair for two songs, and she did not sit down for the whole time during those songs.

Her knees seem to be leaps and bounds better compared to when I saw her in Saint Louis, where she sat down in the director's chair for most of the songs, and did not move around the stage. Liza's set was only an hour, 13 songs. Something I did not know when I arrived, is that the show, which ran from 8-10pm, was only half Liza. The time from 8-9pm, Thomas Wilkins conducted the symphony orchestra, performing selected pieces from famous composers. The first couple of numbers Mr. Wilkins conducted were 'I got rhythm' and 'Embraceable you'. I thought this must be Liza May's overture, she has sun g those two numbers before, and mabey she plans to sing them tonight.

Well after about 30 minutes of the orchestra, and no Liza, and after thinking 'damn this is a really long overture', it became apparent that this was not just a really long overture, but an hour long symphony. Liza's time slot was from 9-10pm. She came out on stage, 9 on the dot, ready to sing. She launched straight into 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'. I was so thrilled with the way she looked and sounded, her vocals soaring far into the night air, I daresay, a bit chilly night air, but not too cold.

Her next number was 'Teach me tonight'. When she got to the middle of the song and her 'bah, buh, doop a doo-wah', she was really workin' it, letting loose. Liza's third number was 'Here I'll stay/Our love is here to stay'. This song I have always wanted to hear live and it ranks amoung my favorite Liza numbers, so magical it was to hear it performed at this elegan t affair, under the night sky.

This song alone was worth the trip as was the next song 'My own best friend'. This version of the song was the best I have ever heard Liza do. Before the song started she acted out the scene from 'Chicago' in the same way as she did in 'At the Palace', you know, 'to hang? They're gonna hang her? Hey where ya goin?

Screw me' screw you!' , absolutely fantastic. Concert staples 'Cabaret' and 'But the world goes round' were performed back to back with no intermission between them as it was only an hour long set. The second half of the show was mostly songs from 'Confessions'.

She opened this half with the song 'Confession'. From there we were treated to 'I hadn't anyone but you', then 'I must have that man'.

'You fascinate me so' was performed as was 'He's a tramp'. Before I mention the last two numbers I would like to say a w ord about the crowd at this event. Much of this crowd seemed subdued and distracted during the show, and I think it was because, this sounds strange, they were not there to see Liza Minnelli. In fact, bizarrely enough, as I talked to different audience members before the show and during the intermission, which ran between Thomas Wilkins's set and Liza's set, I found it to be literally the case that many did not come to see Liza. Most of the people who attended are associated with the Salk Institute or with the University in some way, and they attend the annual 'Symphony at Salk' every year regardless of who's performing, this year it happened to be Liza Minnelli.

We were all sitting at round tables that seat ten people, as dinner was served beforehand. I became annoyed several times during the show as a few of the people at my table and the table in front of me kept talking during Liza's set.

I wanted to tell them, be quiet, the lady is on stage. Talking throughout Liza's set is near blasphemy in my opinion. And after the songs, several of those in the audience would not applaud.

Especially those in the back half of the audience where I was. I was sitting at about the fourth row of tables from the back, even so I was not very far from the stage as this was not a large gathering. Personally if I am at any show, and say I am not enjoying the performer or interested in the performer, I applaud anyways, as it is disrespectful not to do so when a performer is on stage, and Liza was really throwing it out there for us. I just became annoyed with some of the people.

In between two of the songs when Liza was talking about either Ira Gershwin or Vincenet Minnelli, she talked about both men during the night, when she had finshed talking, at a point when it would be normal to applaud for Ira or Vincente, there was a dead silence, Liza waited a couple of seconds expecting some kind of response, then she said 'Thank you' and started up t he next number. I think most of the attendees were bigger fans of The Salk Institute then of Liza. One of the bigger rounds of applause Liza got was after her speech of how honored she was to perform at 'The Symphony at Salk', and how she remembered when she was a kid, living in England, her nanny picked up a newspaper one day, read it and dropped it crying tears of happiness, Liza asked her, what was it, and her nanny told her that scientists at The Salk Institute had just discovered the cure for polio. Noble prize winning scientists have come from The Salk Institute and during the show scientists were coming out onto the balconies from the research labs to watch the show.

The people sitting at my table were quite fascinated by my level of dedication to Liza. They were quite taken by the idea that someone would travel across the country just to see a show, then go home. To me it is normal, and if I had it in my pocket to do so right now, and if Liza were performin g in England, I would fly to England and back to see her.

After the shows closer 'New York, New York' ended, she was really singing that one with all she had, you know 'mmyyyy lliitttllee ttooowwwn bbllueees!' , some people in the audeince left right after the song ended. A couple of people at my table started to leave, I told them 'wait Liza is going to do an encore'. She did a song I have never heard her sing 'Everytime we say goodbye', this was a real treasure, she sat at the piano bench with her back to Billy Stritch as he thumbed the notes. I give this show 50 stars and it was so special to see Liza as she was that night, she was in fine form, strutting around the stage in her usual black sparkling blouse, balck slacks and black shoes and a long pink scarf draped around her neck. The memory lives on in me. Love, Anthony.

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Bringing together the subject of this week’s InDepth InterView, Liza Minnelli, and this week’s Sound Off, Stephen Sondheim, is today’s Flashback Friday taking a look at some fantastically spectacular performances of Ms. Minnelli singing and words and music of Stephen Sondheim throughout the years. A song from FOLLIES given a Pet Shop Boys face-lift, a trip down MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG lane, a jazzy Mel Torme gem from DICK TRACY and a lot more than you could have ever wished for given the blazing talent and astonishing accomplishments of both legends. When Sondheim’s intellectual artistry meets Liza’s extroverted actorly introspection it is a combustible combination with the results more mind-blowing than you would ever even think possible even loving both! Indeed, both individuals are the very, very best of Broadway. So, see why when they meet it is pure Broadway magic. Hey, Old Friends Besides the 1992 SONDHEIM: A CELEBRATION AT Carnegie Hall and the errant “Some People” from GYPSY or “Losing My Mind” from FOLLIES here or there, Liza Minnelli could very well do an evening of Sondheim if she wanted since she has performed relatively little of his material over the years.

Yet, she hasn’t chosen to do so. So, we have something to look forward to since seemingly everyone else has done a night of Sondheim's songs, but, until then, we have these marvelous clips of Minnelli On Sondheim. In my conversation with Ms.

Minnelli last week, this comment which will be a part of the complete InDepth InterView: Liza Minnelli, we talked a bit about that momentous night that also hosted unforgettable performances from Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley, Glenn Close and Karen Ziemba. The Manor Restaurant and Bar Price: $29-$35 Somewhere Over the Manors By Penn Bullock Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli are the God/Jesus team of gays. They've got all the tragedy, venerability, and immortality of an Abrahamic religion; the church is cabaret. Judy is long since dead from an accidental drug overdose, but with the right dress, stage makeup, and accent, she can be resurrected and made to cavort side-by-side with Liza. That's the plan at the big gay nightclub the Manor, where two drag queens have been hired to impersonate mother and daughter for the show Judy and Liza. There is a surplus of drag queens in the Wilton Manors area, more than few of them tawdry and boring.

So what a relief that Rising Action Theatre has hired two real professionals, Tony Femia and Rick Skye, both winners of Manhattan Association of Cabaret awards, to become the idols. Judy and Liza perform at 7:30 p.m. At the Manor (2345 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors). Tickets cost $29 to $35. Call 954-561-2225, or visit risingactiontheatre.com. Location The Manor Restaurant and Bar 2345 Wilton Drive; Wilton Manors FL Reviews Events.

Liza spoke to the North County Times in support of her August 28 concert at the Salk Institute and 'Confessions.' The link to the article is below.

By PAM KRAGEN - pkragen@nctimes.com Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:24 am Liza Minnelli may be a legend, but the down-to-earth diva isn't one to stand on ceremony. Just try greeting her with the courtesy title of 'Ms. 'Oh, honey, just call me Liza,' she responded enthusiastically in a telephone interview from her New York home. The 64-year-old actress/singer/dancer is hitting the road for a 20-date concert tour next month, but she'll warm up first with the San Diego Symphony on Saturday night at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. The Symphony at Salk event, a fundraiser for the research institute, will include a pre-concert cocktail party, dinner al fresco and lab tours.

The concert will be presented in the U-shaped institute's ocean-facing courtyard. One of the few artists to win an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Oscar, Minnelli said she's most at home onstage and can't wait to hit the road with her new album, 'Confessions,' a collection of favorite songs set for release Sept. Although this tour won't include as much of Minnelli's signature dance moves (she's recuperating from knee replacement surgery), she's excited to get back in front of audiences again (her last stage show, 'Liza's at the Palace,' concluded a sold-out Broadway run in January 2009).

Question: What will you perform at the Salk concert? Answer: I do some things from the new album and some things by Fred Ebb and John Kander (songwriters for 'Cabaret,' 'Chicago') like 'Maybe This Time' and 'New York, New York.' It's a program I've done before and people seem to like it. I put a bunch of new stuff and old stuff together and it works.

Q: What's a typical day for you? A: Well, I can walk again, thank goodness. Getting back into shape is hard. But I'm back taking dance lessons again and it feels wonderful. In the mornings I'm going to the gym and dance class. Then I usually have lunch with friends. Then I come home and do my business and either go out to dinner or stay home and someone comes over.

Mornings are when I usually cook. I don't exercise my voice every day. I save it, and then go back into my vocal exercises a week before I go out on tour.

Q: How did you choose the songs (including 'At Last' and 'He's a Tramp') for your new album, 'Confessions'? A: Almost every Saturday night in the fall, I have friends come over and we sing to each other softly, and funny songs. It's not performing, it's just sharing. Finally, Billy (Stritch, her longtime stage partner/accompanist) said, 'Why don't you do this on an album?'

It's all the songs I learned growing up at different people's houses. When I was a child, I'd sit under the piano and listen to my mother and others sing, and these songs are drawn from those memories. Q: How is it different from your other albums? A: I think this is my favorite album. It' very quiet and completely intimate. It's just wonderful. Q: You recently had a cameo in the movie 'Sex and the City 2' singing Beyonce's 'Single Ladies.'

How did that come about? A: I've known all those girls for a long time, so I was happy to do it when I was asked. That wonderful dance that Ron Lewis choreographed for me was hilarious. Q: You also had a long-running role as the kooky neighbor Lucille Two on the cult favorite TV show 'Arrested Development.' Any truth to the rumors that an 'Arrested Development' movie is in the works?

A: Wasn't that fun? I had such a ball working on that show. They had such brilliant writers and an incredible producer.

I keep hearing rumors about a movie, but nobody's told me that a movie is going to happen yet. Q: You also poked fun at yourself on a recent 'Snickers' bar television commercial, acting the diva with Aretha Franklin. Do you often find worshipful fans treating you like a queen?

A: I thought the 'Snickers' commercial was so funny. People do treat me as if I'm royalty until they meet me, then they see I'm just Liza. It's funny, I know a lot of real royalty and they're very down to earth because they were born into it. I was born into Hollywood royalty (her parents were Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli), and there's nothing to be snobby about. You just do your job and live your life. Q: Who are some of the artists you look up to?

A: I was lucky to work with Charles Aznavour (the French singer/songwriter), Fred Ebb and John Kander. They were all a big influence on me. Q: What about some of the contemporary performers out there today?

A: I love Pink, and Lady Gaga is great. I watch it all and enjoy keeping up on everything - that's how you learn. Symphony at Salk with Liza Minnelli When: 5 to 9 p.m. 28 Where: Salk Institute, 10010 N.

Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla Tickets: $250 Info: 858-453-4100, ext. By Zeke Turner August 24, 2010 2:45 pm New Republic editor-in-chief Martin Peretz said something sort of mean about Liza Minnelli yesterday and then took it back this morning. Peretz quoted a column yesterday on his blog from The Daily Beast's Tunku Varadarajan in which Mr. Varadarajan compared John McCain to Liza Minnelli.

It was really no big deal, just a few words at the bottom of a big block quote. Peretz also quoted Mr. Varadarajan's comparison of Mr.

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McCain to Barnacles. Peretz apologized today for circulating the reference to Ms. He's a big fan! His 'movie director son, Jesse' cast her in a film, The X, three years ago, so they're sort of close. He said he was sorry but not entirely to blame.

(When you're in your seventies people blog blockquotes for you?) 'Minnelli has been a talented singer and actress for several decades, and she still has the the sic warranted courage to perform,' he wrote this morning on his blog, The Spine. 'What's more, she is one of those paradigmatic entertainers who gives of herself—her ample brain and enchanting personality—in the cause of human rights, a cause not as popular as it once was was.' 'And, by the way,' he added, 'what an exemplary private life she has had.'

San Diago Union Tribune By George Varga, UNION-TRIBUNE The 15th annual Symphony at Salk — A Concert Under the Stars, featuring Liza Minnelli and the San Diego Symphony When: Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Where: Theodore Gildred Court, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla Tickets: $250 (includes dinner, reception and concert); sponsorship packages range from $2,500 to $75,000 Phone: (858) 453-4100, ext. 1882 Online: salk.edu/events/symphony10 With her bigger-than-life voice and a personality to match, Liza Minnelli has never been regarded as laid back. In a career that began with her Broadway debut at age 3 in 1949 and has since seen her win an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, several Tony Awards and a “worst actress” Razzie, she has always seemed like an indomitable force of nature.

Whether making an indelible impression as the brassy star of the iconic musical “Cabaret” in 1972 or during her recent cameo in this summer’s “Sex and the City 2” movie, which finds her belting out Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On it)” with steamrollerlike intensity, Minnelli fills a room, movie theater or concert hall as if it’s her birthright. And it may well be, considering that she is the daughter of two Hollywood legends, singer-actress Judy Garland and film director Vicente Minnelli (of, respectively, “The Wizard of Oz” and “An American in Paris” fame). But when it came time to record her new album, “Confessions,” Minnelli got as laid back as any singer could while still remaining fully conscious, albeit only partially upright.

“I made it in my bedroom!” chirped the veteran singer and actress, who performs here Saturday night with the San Diego Symphony in a benefit gala dinner concert for (and at) the Salk Institute in La Jolla. “I had to have knee-replacement surgery and I go nuts with nothing to do because I have so much energy,” she continued, speaking from New York.

“So it was perfect. I did part of the album before the operation and part of it after. I started off singing in bed and then, as I got better, I moved into a director’s chair. There was no other way to do it, because I couldn’t walk.” Now 64, Minnelli shows no sign of slowing down soon, despite the knee replacement (it was at least her third knee operation), two earlier hip-replacement surgeries, three divorces and a number of drug- and alcohol-fueled stays in various rehab clinics. On “Confessions,” which she recorded in her bedroom with veteran pianist Billy Stritch, she sings in a far more intimate and understated style than is usually associated with her name. While some of the songs, such as “At Last” and “All the Way,” are weathered standards, many are more obscure, such as “Moments Like This,” “You Fascinate Me So” and the finger-snapping Peggy Lee chestnut, “He’s a Tramp.” At its best, which is on about half of the 14 songs she performs on the album, Minnelli and Stritch come close to evoking her longtime friend Tony Bennett’s two splendid releases with jazz piano great Bill Evans in the mid-1970s.

“These songs are very personal and private to me, and my singing on the album is not a performance,” she said. “It’s so personal that I had to be talked into doing it,” she said.

But the album, due out Sept. 28 on Decca Records, also takes Minnelli back to her childhood in Hollywood. On many a night as she was growing up, such American music icons as Irving Berlin, Oscar Levant and Ira Gershwin (her godfather) would drop by to socialize.

On other nights, the Minnellis would go visit Berlin, Gershwin and other pioneering songwriters. Invariably, they would take turns singing and playing a few songs, while a little girl named Liza would sprawl under the grand piano and listen intently. “To me, they were the neighbors,” she recalled of her family’s famous friends.

“Our home was like a coal mine in town and everybody knew everybody who worked in the mines. The songs on my new album are the songs I heard sitting all under pianos all over Hollywood.” In 1964, when she was still a teenager, Minnelli famously recorded a live album in London with her mother, who would die five years later of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 47. Yet, while she now pointedly credits all of her musical acumen to her godmother, Kay Thompson, Minnelli allows that appearing on stage with her mother in London was a major turning point for both of them. “I was scared to death, but I was determined,” she recalled. “I asked my mom: ‘Why don’t you do this with Frank Sinatra or Peggy Lee?’ She said: ‘No, I want you.’ And I thought: ‘Oh my god!’ ” In 1967, Minnelli co-starred opposite Albert Finney in “Charlie Bubbles.” It was her first movie since 1949, when she briefly appeared in a scene with her mother at the conclusion of “In the Good Old Summertime,” and it marked the launch of a lengthy film career. Today, she credits her many roles on Broadway and the inspiration of French singing institution Charles Aznavour for informing her actorlike approach to interpreting the lyrics she performs on stage.

“I always loved music,” she said. “But I didn’t really get into it until I saw Charles perform, and he influenced me. It was the acting. How he could take you to different places when he sang; it was like God (was) acting. I asked him if he would be my mentor, and he said: ‘Yes.’ But I know so much music because I was a shy little girl and the songs said what I couldn’t say. “If you are singing 20 songs in concert, each song has to have a character breakdown.

Who is this woman (in the song)? What does she look like? Where is she?

The top floor of a penthouse? It’s almost like I am the character, so each song is different.

But none of that is happening on my new album — which is me just sitting there singing.” Though Minnelli is long a Broadway favorite, her fans also include rock singer Pat Benatar, Crowded House band leader Neil Finn and the members of Queen, Pet Shop Boys and My Chemical Romance, all three of whom she has collaborated with. Asked if she or the all-male members of the guyliner-fueled My Chemical Romance wore makeup in the recording studio, she laughed with delight. “I don’t know who had more on, but we were sure wearing a lot!” said Minnelli, who for a short period in the 1980s was managed by Kiss bassist-singer Gene Simmons. Through all her ups and downs — and there have been many of both — she has always charged (or, sometimes, limped) forward, determined to do her best whatever the circumstances. While her reputation as a diva is not undeserved, she maintains that “it’s easier to treat people nicely.” Ultimately, Minnelli said, “When people remember me, I want them to say: ‘She did a good job.’ ”. The Fan Carpet August 9 2010 The minute I lay my blanket on the ground it was obvious that this was going to be a special evening.

There's a sense of excitement at certain venues, and Somerset House is no different. Sitting in the peaceful square flagged by the magnificent neo classical buildings of Somerset House, I couldn't help but feel humbled in the presence of so much history and the people over the last three century's who have been lucky enough to feel in awe of this house. History, along with the world's greatest musicals, has also become the theme for this particular night at Summer Screen. Over the last ten years we have enjoyed nostalgic treats such as Singing In The Rain from the 1950's, and West Side Story from the swinging sixties, but tonight was the decade of disco, where musicals were scarce, but one outstanding and memorable performance from Liza Minnelli and friends ensured Cabaret, from the 1970's, will be never be forgotten. It really was a treat for Liza fans as the opening credits rolled.

We adore her and we still smile at the portrayal of Sally Bowles. Born into Hollywood aristocracy with talent to spare and deep-well eyes, she has made a spectacular play of growing up. No battle is won. Addictions ravage her; marriages collapse around her and health and weight problems haunt her. But Life is a cabaret, or so the song goes. Set in the early 1930s, Bob Fosse's portrait of decadent life in a decidedly decadent Berlin is both uplifting and grim.

Not a typical movie musical it is comedic, dramatic, realistic, tasteful and ultimately thought provoking. Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles, plays an entertainer at the Kit Kat Klub, a German hot spot where the festivities are overseen by a charming Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey).

She is determined to become a film star and willing to bed whomever she must in pursuit of screen tests. Brian Roberts (Michael York) is a mild-mannered lad from England who arrives and rents a room at her boarding house.

Romantic complications are provided by the handsome Baron Maximilian von Heune (Helmut Griem), who spends lavishly. The uneasy involvement of the trio provides the film's best scene, in which they all get drunk and a little touchy-feely. Nothing, but everything happens. Griem, Wepper, and Berenson provide good support in their smaller roles, but the only one who comes close to stealing Minnelli's thunder is Grey in his Oscar-winning role as the sly emcee. The musical numbers were masterfully staged by director Bob Fosse, who beat out Francis Ford Coppola as the year's Best Director at the Academy Awards in 1974. Nominated for ten Oscars, Cabaret won a stunning eight.

I remember watching Cabaret seven or eight times with my mother so I found it quite hard to restrain myself from blurting out the lyrics at the top of my voice. I couldn't get enough of it. The film (and Liza) makes me feel that I didn't know what to do, even if I didn't know who I was, or what I specifically wanted out of life, I did want life and I wanted experience. Afterall, what good is sitting alone in your room? If you missed out on tickets this year - be sure to book well in advance next year.

It's a night to remember. External Linkshttp://www.somersethouse.org.uk.

Liza Minnelli is going to make a cameo as herself on the second season of 'Smash.' The award-winning singer-actress, 66, will appear in an episode titled 'The Surprise Party' that is set to air in the spring, NBC announced Tuesday. She'll also sing an original song, written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, alongside series star Christian Borle, who won a Tony Award earlier this year for his turn in 'Peter and the Starcatcher.' He plays Broadway composer Tom Levitt on the show. 'Liza Minnelli is the essence of a multi-talented, singular show business sensation, particularly for her extraordinary contributions to Broadway,' NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said in a statement. 'So what could be more fitting than to have her legendary talent on a show that celebrates a world Liza has dazzled for decades? I had the pleasure of working with Liza when we restored her landmark television special 'Liza With a Z' at Showtime, and to see her artistry up close and personal is a thing to behold.'

'Smash' will return to NBC on Feb.