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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0758445116120
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Showtime Entertainment
Manufacturer: Showtime Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Showtime Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 04, 2006
Running Time: 55 minutes
Sales Rank: 14872
Studio: Showtime Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
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With all her recent misadventures, it's hard to remember that Liza Minelli was once a startlingly impressive stage performer, following in her mother's footsteps (Judy Garland, for those that haven't been paying attention). This made for TV concert from 1972 shines the spotlight on Liza at her peak, with songs by Kander & Ebb and choreography by Bob Fosse. Forget everything else; all you need to know and remember about Liza Minelli is right here.
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The DVD Holy Grail for Liza Minnelli fans finally surfaces after 30-some years: Liza with a "Z", a splashy TV special from 1972. And wow, is it ever a product of its era. Minnelli and director-choreographer Bob Fosse were at the top of their popularity in 1972, having just made Cabaret, the blockbuster musical for which both won Oscars. Liza with a "Z" places the still-coltish Minnelli on the stage of the Lyceum Theater, in a one-night-only performance covered by Fosse's eight cameras. Songs by Cabaret composers John Kander and Fred Ebb provide a spine for the show, including a breathless rendition of "Ring Them Bells" and the tongue-twisting "Say Liza (Liza with a 'Z')," a goofball number that sounds more like one of Danny Kaye's patter songs than a tune for Liza Minnelli.
Liza treats each song as an emotional Mount Everest, never holding back a thing, and the result is a psychodrama played out in the klieg lights. (The outrageous costumes by Halston don't hold back a thing, either; Studio 54, here we come!) Memories of the all-or-nothing style of her mother, Judy Garland, are already heavy in the air by the time Minnelli reaches "My Mammy," and workouts on "God Bless the Child" and "Son of a Preacher Man" confirm the singer's approach.
As for Fosse's choreography, there are signature moves aplenty--his dancing so frequently suggested a choreographer lusting for actual sex to break out on stage. "Bye Bye Blackbird" gives Minnelli and her backup dancers a chance to stretch out in an echt-Fosse feast of bowler hats and white gloves. The bell-and-booty shaking in "Ring Them Bells" and the loony tuxedo-clad cowpokes in "I Gotcha" hint that Fosse was in the midst of a manic phase. Speaking of which, Minnelli tackling Joe Tex's "I Gotcha" is one of those jaw-dropping mismatches that she salvages only through dint of daft commitment. No quarreling with the Cabaret medley; say want you want about Liza, she owns those songs. Minnelli and Fosse won Emmys for the show. The restoration of the original materials looks about as good as can be expected, with the spirit of a glitzy seventies TV variety special quite intact. --Robert Horton
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Liza at 22 is just amazing. And with Bob Fosse! You just have to see it to appreciate it.
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"Liza with a 'Z'" is a significant concert for so many reasons. You will see a mix of Broadway, dance, melody, showtunes, film, burlesque, discotheque, television, comedy and satire in this one-time only concert from 1972.
Liza made history because this is the very first concert of its kind (like they say, like mother, like daughter). But it's not just a concert. Nope. Watching "Liza with a 'Z'" is like going to the theater or the circus or wherever you go to get your kicks and seeing ... Read More
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I never thought there would be the day I would be able to watch this Classic concert for the rest of my life any time I chose to.The only other concert I would DIE FOR to see is "Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall."
Liza was the GREATEST singer,actress,performer,EVER in 1972.This DVD is perfect.
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Wow. What a disappointment.
I watched this earlier tonight on "Great Performances". Perhaps it was an edited version?
Most important criticism: Um, this whole thing was lip-synced??? How come no one who talks about how great it is, ever mentions this??? When people talk about Britney Spears they say she does the same thing and she gets flack for it ... (yes, probably the only time the two will ever be compared ...).
Liza does half the concert away from her microphone. ... Read More
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Perhaps one of the greatest TV specials ever done. All Fosse, all Liza. It has the charm, the innovation and that 70's taste that put on stage some of the good cliches that signed many shows. Filled with extras specially designed for Liza's fans or newcommer fans. Don't missed it. This was a classical lost do not loose it again buy it.
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