Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli (/ˈlaɪzə/ LY-zə; born March 12, 1946) is an

American actress, singer, and dancer. Known for her
Liza Minnelli
commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice,
Minnelli is among a rare group of performers awarded an
Emmy, Grammy (Grammy Legend Award), Oscar, and Tony
(EGOT).[1] Minnelli is a Knight of the French Legion of
Honour.[2]

Daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and director

Vincente Minnelli, Minnelli was born in Los Angeles, spent
part of her childhood in Scarsdale, New York, and moved to
New York City in 1961 where she began her career as a
musical theatre actress, nightclub performer and traditional pop
music artist. She made her professional stage debut in the 1963
Off-Broadway revival of Best Foot Forward[3] and won a
Tony Award for starring in Flora the Red Menace in 1965,[4]
which marked the start of her lifelong collaboration with John Studio publicity photograph, c. 1973
Kander and Fred Ebb. They wrote, produced or directed many
Born Liza May Minnelli
of Minnelli's future stage acts and TV shows, and helped create
March 12, 1946
her stage persona of a stylized survivor, including her career-
defining performances of anthems of survival ("New York, Los Angeles,
New York", "Cabaret" and "Maybe This Time").[5] Along with California, U.S.
her roles on stage and screen, this persona and her style of Occupation Actress · singer ·
performance added to Minnelli's status as an enduring gay dancer
icon.[6]
Years active 1949–present
An acclaimed performance in the drama film The Sterile Spouse(s) Peter Allen
Cuckoo (1969), marked a film breakthrough for Minnelli and (m. 1967; div. 1974)
garnered her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best
Jack Haley Jr.
Actress. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal
(m. 1974; div. 1979)
of Sally Bowles in the musical film Cabaret (1972), for which
she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Most of her Mark Gero
following films, including Lucky Lady (1975), New York, New (m. 1979; div. 1992)
York (1977), Rent-a-Cop (1988) and Stepping Out (1991), were David Gest
panned by critics and bombed at the box office, and she had no (m. 2002; div. 2007)
more major movie hits except Arthur (1981).[7] She returned to
Broadway on a number of occasions, including The Act (1977) Parent(s) Vincente Minnelli
for which she earned a second Tony Award, The Rink (1984) Judy Garland
and Liza's at The Palace.... (2008), worked on various
television formats and has predominantly focused on music hall Relatives Lorna Luft
and nightclub performances since the late 1970s. Her concert (maternal half-
performances at Carnegie Hall in 1979 and 1987, and at Radio sister)
City Music Hall in 1991 and 1992 are recognized among her Musical career
most successful. From 1988 to 1990, she toured with Frank
Genres Traditional pop ·
Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in Frank, Liza & Sammy: The
Ultimate Event. musical theatre ·
While Minnelli is known for her renditions of American vocal · disco
standards, her early-1960s pop singles were produced to attract Labels Capitol · A&M ·
a young audience.[8][9] Her albums from 1968 to 1977
Columbia · Epic ·
contained contemporary singer-songwriter material. In 1989,
Angel · Decca
she ventured into the contemporary pop scene by collaborating
with the Pet Shop Boys on the album Results. After a hiatus Associated acts Judy Garland · Bing
due to serious health problems, Minnelli returned to the concert Crosby · Frank
stage in 2002 with Liza's Back and was a guest star in the Sinatra · Sammy
sitcom Arrested Development between 2003 and 2013. Since Davis Jr. · Fred Ebb
the 2010s, she has avoided huge concert performances in favor · My Chemical
of small retrospective performances.[10][11][12][13][14] Romance

Contents
Early life
Career
Theatre
Music
Film
Television
Later career
Personal life
Marriages
Philanthropy
Discography
Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre
Discography
Awards and nominations
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Early life
Minnelli was born on March 12, 1946, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Beverly Boulevard in Los
Angeles. She is the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli.[15] Her parents named her after Ira
Gershwin's song "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)". Minnelli has a half-sister, Lorna, and half-brother,
Joey, from Garland's marriage to Sid Luft. She has another half-sister, Christiane Nina Minnelli (nicknamed
Tina Nina), from her father's second marriage.[16] Minnelli's godparents were Kay Thompson and her
husband William Spier.[17]
Her first performing experience on film was at age three appearing
in the final scene of the musical In the Good Old Summertime
(1949); the film stars Garland and Van Johnson. In 1961 she
moved to New York City, attending High School of Performing
Arts and later, Chadwick School.[18]

Career

Theatre

During 1961, Minnelli was an apprentice at the Cape Cod Melody

Tent in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She appeared in the chorus of
Flower Drum Song and played the part of Muriel in Take Me
Along. She began performing professionally at age 17 in 1963 in
an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for Minnelli with her mother on the set of
Summer Stock in 1950
which she received the Theatre World Award.

The next year, her mother invited her to perform with her in
concert at the London Palladium. Both concerts were recorded and released as an album. She attended
Scarsdale High School for one year, starring in a production of The Diary of Anne Frank which then went
to Israel on tour. She turned to Broadway at 19, and won her first Tony Award as a leading actress for
Flora the Red Menace. It was the first time that she worked with the musical pair John Kander and Fred
Ebb.

Music

Minnelli began as a nightclub singer as an adolescent, making her professional nightclub debut at the age of
19 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. That same year she began appearing in other clubs and on
stage in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and New York City. Her success as a live performer led
to her record several albums for Capitol Records: Liza! Liza! (1964), It Amazes Me (1965), and There Is a
Time (1966). In her early years, she recorded traditional pop standards as well as show tunes from various
musicals in which she starred. Because of this fact, William Ruhlmann named her "Barbra Streisand's little
sister".[19] The Capitol albums Liza! Liza!, It Amazes Me, and There Is A Time were reissued on the two-
CD compilation The Capitol Years in 2001, in their entirety.

From 1968 to the 1970s, she also recorded her albums Liza Minnelli (1968), Come Saturday Morning and
New Feelin' (both 1970) for A&M Records. She released The Singer (1973) and Tropical Nights (1977) on
Columbia Records.

In 1989, Minnelli collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys on Results, an electronic dance-style album. The
release hit the top 10 in the UK and charted in the U.S., spawning four singles: "Losing My Mind"; "Don't
Drop Bombs"; "So Sorry, I Said"; and "Love Pains". Later that year, she performed "Losing My Mind"
live at the Grammys Award ceremony before receiving a Grammy Legend Award (the first Grammy
Legend Awards were issued in 1990 to Minnelli, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Smokey Robinson, and Willie
Nelson). With this award, she became one of only 16 people—a list that includes composer Richard
Rodgers, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, and John Gielgud and others—to win an Emmy, Grammy,
Tony Award, and Academy Award.
In April 1992, Minnelli appeared at the tribute concert for her late friend Freddie Mercury, performing "We
Are the Champions" with the surviving members of the rock band Queen at Wembley Stadium in
London.[20] In 1996, Minnelli released a studio album titled Gently. It was a recording of jazz standards
and included contemporary songs such as the cover of Does He Love You which she performed as a duet
with Donna Summer. This album brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal
Performance.

In 2006, Minnelli appeared on My Chemical Romance's album The Black Parade, providing backing
vocals and singing a solo part with Gerard Way on the track "Mama". Minnelli was nominated in 2009 for
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her studio recording Liza's at the Palace...!, based on her hit
Broadway show. Minnelli released an album on the Decca Records label titled Confessions on September
21, 2010.[21]

Liza Minnelli was among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008
Universal fire.[22]

Film

Minnelli's first appearance on film is as the baby in the final shot of

her mother's film In the Good Old Summertime (1949). Her first
credited film role was as the love-interest in Charlie Bubbles
(1967), Albert Finney's only film as director and star, although four
years earlier, she did voiceover work for the animated film Journey
Back to Oz, a sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Minnelli was the voice
of Dorothy (a character played in the earlier film by her mother
Judy Garland) in what would have been her first credited film role
had it been released in 1964 as planned—the Filmation production
was delayed, eventually being released in the UK during 1972.

Minnelli appeared in The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), Alan J. Pakula's

first feature film, as Pookie Adams, a needy, eccentric teenager.
Her performance was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
Actress in a Leading Role. She played another eccentric character
in Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970), directed by Otto As Sally Bowles in Cabaret
Preminger. A nude scene in that film, filmed in a Massachusetts
cemetery, resulted in a misdemeanor complaint by family of those
buried there, and a "Liza Minnelli Bill" was introduced the following year to penalise filming in
Massachusetts cemeteries without permission.[23][24]

Minnelli appeared in her best-known film role, Sally Bowles, in the film version of Cabaret (1972). She
said that one of the things she did to prepare was to study photographs of actresses Louise Glaum and
Louise Brooks and the dark-haired women of the era in which the film is set.[25] Minnelli won the
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance, along with a Golden Globe
Award, BAFTA Award, and also Sant Jordi Award and David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign
Actress.

Following the success of Cabaret, Bob Fosse and Minnelli teamed for Liza with a 'Z'. A Concert for
Television, a television special. The program aired two times on TV and was not seen again until a DVD
release in 2006.
Minnelli appeared in three expensive flops in three years, with Variety suggesting by 1978 that she was the
number-one choice for box office poison.[26] First was Lucky Lady (1975), then she worked with her father
in A Matter of Time (1976), co-starring Ingrid Bergman and then New York, New York (1977), which gave
Minnelli her best known signature song. She sometimes performed duets on stage with Frank Sinatra, who
recorded a cover version (for his Trilogy: Past Present Future album).

Minnelli made fewer film appearances from then on, but her next film, Arthur (1981), where she starred as
Dudley Moore's love interest, was a big hit.[27] She returned to film for Rent-A-Cop and Arthur 2: On the
Rocks (both 1988) and Stepping Out (1991), a musical comedy drama. She later appeared in The Oh in
Ohio in 2006 which received only a limited release in theatres.[28]

Television

During the 1950s, Minnelli appeared as a child guest on Art

Linkletter's show and sang and danced with Gene Kelly on his
first television special in 1959. She was a guest star in one episode
of Ben Casey and was a frequent guest on chat shows of the day
including numerous appearances on shows hosted by Jack Paar,
Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Joe Franklin, Dinah Shore and
Johnny Carson. During the 1960s, she made several guest
appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as well as other
variety shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood
Palace, and The Judy Garland Show.

In 1964, she appeared as Minnie in her first television dramatic

role in the episode "Nightingale for Sale" on Craig Stevens's short-
lived series Mr. Broadway.

Mikhail Baryshnikov and Minnelli in In December 1992, American Public Television aired Liza
Baryshnikov on Broadway, 1980 Minnelli Live from Radio City Music Hall produced by Phil
Ramone and Chris Giordano. The show received six Emmy
nominations and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding
Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics, awarded to Fred Ebb and John Kander.

Much later in her career, Minnelli made guest appearances on shows such as Arrested Development, Law &
Order: Criminal Intent and Drop Dead Diva. In the UK, she appeared on the Ruby Wax, Graham Norton
and Jonathan Ross shows, and in October 2006, participated in a comedy skit on Charlotte Church's show
and was featured on Michael Parkinson's show.

In November 2009, American Public Television aired Liza's at the Palace, taped from September 30 to
October 1, 2009, in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand's Hollywood Theatre.[29] The executive producers of
the taping, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, were previously involved with the 2005 rerelease of 1972's
Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning Liza with a Z.[30]

Later career

Minnelli returned to Broadway in 1997, taking over the title role in the musical Victor/Victoria, replacing
Julie Andrews. In his review, New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote "her every stage appearance is
perceived as a victory of show-business stamina over psychic frailty. She asks for love so nakedly and
earnestly, it seems downright vicious not to respond."[31]
After a serious case of viral encephalitis in 2000, doctors predicted that Minnelli would spend the rest of her
life in a wheelchair and perhaps not be able to speak again. However, taking vocal and dance lessons daily
(especially with Sam Harris, Luigi Faccuito, Ron Lewis, and Angela Bacari), she managed to recover. She
appeared on a September 19, 2001, episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show, notable because it was Rosie's
first show back following the September 11 attacks. Despite having vocal surgery shortly prior, she sang
her signature song, "New York, New York", and received an enthusiastic ovation. She also returned to the
stage in 2001 when asked by long-time friend Michael Jackson to perform at Madison Square Garden in
New York City where she sang "Never Never Land" and the televised "You Are Not Alone" at the
Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special concert produced by future husband David Gest. Minnelli told
reporters: "I am stable as a table."[32]

Gest was so impressed with Minnelli's stamina and ability to stun audiences that he produced her in Liza's
Back in Spring 2002, performing to rave reviews in London and New York City. The tour featured a tribute
to her mother: after years of declining fans' pleas for her to sing Garland's signature song "Over The
Rainbow", she concluded Act 1 with the final refrain of her mother's anthem to an instant ovation.

From 2003 through 2005, she appeared as a recurring character on the Emmy Award-winning TV sitcom
Arrested Development as Lucille Austero (also known as "Lucille 2"), the lover of both the sexually and
socially awkward Buster Bluth and Buster's brother Gob. Minnelli appeared in the role for the show's
fourth season in 2013.[33]

On December 14, 2004, Minnelli made her first appearance in the UK after a long absence, performing as a
special guest at the annual Royal Variety Performance. The performance was presented by the BBC, and
was attended by Charles, Prince of Wales. It was staged at the London Coliseum, celebrating both its
centenary year and the theatre's re-opening after an extensive 4 year restoration.[34]

In September 2006, Minnelli made a guest appearance on the long-running drama Law & Order: Criminal
Intent in "Masquerade", a Halloween-themed episode, broadcast on October 31, 2006.[35]

Minnelli also completed guest vocals on My Chemical Romance's 2006 concept album The Black Parade,
portraying "Mother War", a dark conception of the main character's mother in the song "Mama".[36]

Minnelli returned to Broadway in a new solo concert at the Palace Theatre titled Liza's at The Palace...!,
which ran from December 3, 2008, through January 4, 2009.[37][38] In her second act, she performed a
series of numbers created by Kay Thompson.[39]

Minnelli was a character in the Australian musical The Boy from Oz (a biography of her first husband)
starring Hugh Jackman. In the show's Broadway production, she was portrayed by Stephanie J. Block. In
October 2009, Minnelli toured Australia, and appeared on Australian Idol as a mentor and guest judge.
Minnelli made a cameo appearance in the May 2010 release of Sex and the City 2, in which she covered
Beyoncé's hit "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" and Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye". She
made a starring appearance in December 2010 in The Apprentice.

Also in 2010, Minnelli released an album of a number of American standards "unplugged" with long-time
collaborator Billy Stritch, showing a sultrier and softer, more interpretive side to her artistry. The songs are
said to have been recorded several years prior and later released as the album Confessions.

On June 14, 2012, Minnelli headlined at Hampton Court Palace Festival. On May 9, 2014, Minnelli had a
guest appearance on Cher's Dressed to Kill Tour in Brooklyn, performing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
with Cyndi Lauper and Rosie O'Donnell.[40]

Personal life
Minnelli has long suffered from alcoholism and has been addicted
to prescription drugs, originating from a Valium prescription after
her mother died.[41] Her use of recreational drugs in the 1970s was
noted by Andy Warhol, who in a 1978 diary entry recalled
Minnelli arriving at Halston's house and imploring the host to
"Give me every drug you've got."[41][42] Along with Warhol and
Bianca Jagger, Minnelli made frequent appearances at New York
City nightclubs during the late 1970s, including the paragon of a
new celebrity culture, Studio 54. Minnelli left her 1984 musical
The Rink to enter the Betty Ford Clinic.[43]

Minnelli has stated that she is an Episcopalian.[44]

The family moved the remains of Minnelli's mother Judy Garland

from Ferncliff Cemetery in Greenburgh, Westchester County, New
York, to Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California
in 2017.[45]

Minnelli's friendships have included the singer Adam Ant whom

she advised on what to wear when he was presented to Queen
Minnelli at The Heart Truth Fashion
Elizabeth II after the 1981 Royal Variety Performance at which his Show 2008
band Adam and the Ants performed.[46] Ant in turn namechecked
Minnelli in the track "Crackpot History and the Right To Lie" on
his 1982 solo album Friend or Foe.[47]

During an Australian visit, Minnelli and her then-boyfriend Peter Allen were invited to the opening of the
Compass Centre in Bankstown. They were awarded the titles of King and Queen of the Compass
Centre.[48]

Marriages

Minnelli has married and divorced four times. Her first marriage was to entertainer Peter Allen on March 3,
1967.[49] Australian-born Allen was Judy Garland's protégé in the mid-1960s.[50] They divorced on July
24, 1974.[51] Minnelli told The Advocate editor-in-chief Judy Wieder in September 1996 "I married Peter,
and he didn't tell me he was gay. Everyone knew but me. And I found out ... well, let me put it this way: I'll
never surprise anybody coming home as long as I live. I call first!"[52]

Later that year, Minnelli married Jack Haley Jr., a producer and director, on September 15, 1974.[53] His
father, Jack Haley, was Garland's co-star in The Wizard of Oz. They divorced in April 1979.[54]

Minnelli was married to Mark Gero, a sculptor and stage manager, from December 4, 1979, until their
divorce in January 1992.[55]

Minnelli was married to David Gest, a concert promoter, from March 16, 2002, until their separation in July
2003, and their divorce in April 2007.[56][57] In a 2003 lawsuit, Gest alleged that Minnelli beat him in
alcohol-induced rages during their marriage.[58]

Minnelli also had relationships with Rock Brynner (son of Yul Brynner), Desi Arnaz, Jr., Peter Sellers, and
Martin Scorsese.[59][60] Her close friendship with French pop singer Charles Aznavour has been described
by Aznavour as "more than friends and less than lovers".[61]
Minnelli has no children; one pregnancy left her with a hiatal hernia as a result of the medical steps taken to
try to save the baby.[16]

Philanthropy

Throughout her lifetime, Minnelli has served on various charities

and causes. She served on the board of directors of The Institutes
for The Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP) for 20 years, a
nonprofit educational organization that introduces parents to the
field of child brain development. In a 2006 interview with Randy
Rice at Broadwayworld.com, Minnelli said that she was the person
who told Elizabeth Taylor about HIV/AIDS while talking about
their mutual friend Rock Hudson.[62] She has also dedicated much
time to amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, which was Minnelli, in 1993, visiting the tomb of
co-founded by Taylor. Eva Perón (In the early 1990s,
Minnelli was in the running for the
In 2007, she stated in an interview with Palm Springs Life: role of Evita)
"AmfAR is important to me because I've lost so many friends that
I knew [to AIDS]".[63] In 1994, she recorded the Kander & Ebb
tune "The Day After That" and donated the proceeds to AIDS research.[64] The same year, she performed
the song in front of thousands in Central Park at the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Discography

Filmography

Film
 Year Title Director Role Notes
In the Good Old Robert Z.
1949 The Daughter Uncredited role
Summertime Leonard
Vincente Little Girl at
1954 The Long, Long Trailer Scenes deleted
Minnelli Wedding
1968 Charlie Bubbles Albert Finney Eliza
1968 The Odd Couple Gene Saks Go-go Dancer Uncredited
Alan J. Mary Ann Nominated for the Academy Award
1969 The Sterile Cuckoo
Pakula "Pookie" Adams for Best Actress
Tell Me That You Love Me, Otto
1970 Junie Moon
Junie Moon Preminger
Won the Academy Award for Best
1972 Cabaret Bob Fosse Sally Bowles
Actress
Hal
1972 Journey Back to Oz Dorothy Gale Voice
Sutherland
Jack Haley
1974 That's Entertainment! Host
Jr.
Stanley
1975 Lucky Lady Claire
Donen
1976 Silent Movie Mel Brooks Herself Cameo appearance
Vincente
1976 A Matter of Time Nina
Minnelli
Martin
1977 New York, New York Francine Evans
Scorsese
1981 Arthur Steve Gordon Linda Marolla
Martin
1983 The King of Comedy Herself Scenes deleted
Scorsese
The Muppets Take
1984 Frank Oz Herself Cameo appearance
Manhattan
Jack Haley
1985 That's Dancing! Herself/Host
Jr.
Rent-a-Cop Jerry London Della Roberts
1988 Linda Marolla
Arthur 2: On the Rocks Bud Yorkin
Bach
1991 Stepping Out Lewis Gilbert Mavis Turner
2006 The Oh in Ohio Billy Kent Alyssa Donahue
Michael
2010 Sex and the City 2 Herself Cameo appearance
Patrick King
Frédéric
2019 Halston Herself Cameo appearance
Tcheng

Television
 Year Title Role Notes
Episode: "The Judy Garland Christmas
1963 The Judy Garland Show Herself
Special"
1964 Mr. Broadway Minnie Episode: "Nightingale for Sale"
1964 Judy and Liza at the Palladium Herself Television special with Judy Garland
The Dangerous Christmas of Red
1965 Herself Television special
Riding Hood
1967 Woody Allen Looks at 1967 Herself Television Special
1968 That's Life Secretary Episode: "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
1970 Liza Herself Television special
Liza with a "Z": A Concert for
1972 Herself Television special
Television
1974 Love from A to Z Herself Television special with Charles Aznavour
1979 The Muppet Show Herself Episode: "Liza Minnelli"
1980 Goldie and Liza Together Herself Television special with Goldie Hawn
1980 An Evening with Liza Minnelli Herself Television special
Princess
1984 Faerie Tale Theatre Episode: "The Princess and the Pea"
Alecia
Mary-Lou
1985 A Time to Live Television movie
Weisman
1986 Liza in London Herself Television special
Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers
1987 Herself Documentary
Vincente
1988 Sam Found Out: A Triple Play Herself Television special
Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Television special with Frank Sinatra and
1989 Herself/Host
Event Sammy Davis Jr.
1992 The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Herself Television special
1992 Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall Herself Television special
Liza and Friends: A Tribute to
1993 Herself/Host Television special
Sammy Davis Jr.
1994 Parallel Lives Stevie Merrill Television movie
1995 The West Side Waltz Cara Varnum Television movie
1999 Jackie's Back Herself Cameo; Television film
2003–
05 Arrested Development Lucille Austero 21 episodes
2013
2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Beth Harner Episode: "Masquerade"
2009 Drop Dead Diva Lily Wells Episode: "Make Me a Match"
2013 Smash Herself Episode: "The Surprise Party"

Theatre
 Year Title Role Venue
Cape Cod Melody Tent,
1961 Wish You Were Here Ballet solo
Massachusetts
Cape Cod Melody Tent,
1961 Take Me Along Muriel
Massachusetts
Cape Cod Melody Tent,
1961 Flower Drum Song Chorus
Massachusetts
1961– Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale
The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank
62 New York and Israel Tour
1963 Best Foot Forward Ethel Hofflinger Stage 73, Off-Broadway
1964 Carnival! Lili Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey
Bucks County Playhouse,
1964 Time Out For Ginger Ginger
Pennsylvania
1964 The Fantasticks Luisa US National Tour
1965 Flora the Red Menace Flora Alvin Theatre, Broadway
1966 The Pajama Game Babe Williams US National Tour
Herself (one-woman
1974 Liza Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway
show)
46th Street Theatre, Broadway
1975 Chicago Roxie Hart
Note: replacement for Gwen Verdon

1977–
The Act Michelle Craig Majestic Theatre, Broadway
78
Are You Now or Have You Ever
1978 Letter Reader (cameo) Promenade Theatre, Off-Broadway
Been?
1978– Metropolitan Opera House, New York
The Owl and the Pussycat The Storyteller
79 City
1984 The Rink Angel Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway
1994 Love Letters Melissa Gardner Coconut Grove Playhouse, Florida
Marquis Theatre, Broadway
1997 Victor/Victoria Victoria Grant
Note: vacation replacement for Julie Andrews

1999– Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Herself (one-woman

Palace Theatre, Broadway
00 Palace show)
2008– Herself (one-woman
Liza's at The Palace.... Palace Theatre, Broadway
09 show)
2013 Liza & Alan Herself Town Hall, Broadway

Discography
Studio albums

Liza! Liza! (1964)

It Amazes Me (1965)
There Is a Time (1966)
Liza Minnelli (1968)
Come Saturday Morning (1969)
 New Feelin' (1970)
The Singer (1973)
Tropical Nights (1977)
Results (1989)
Gently (1996)
Confessions (2010)

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
1969 The Sterile Cuckoo Nominated
Academy Award Best Actress [65]
1972 Cabaret Won
Outstanding Performance in a A Royal Gala Variety
Nominated
1973 Variety Program Performance
Outstanding Variety Special Liza with a Z Won
1980 Primetime Outstanding Variety Program Goldie and Liza Together Nominated [66]
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza
1987 Nominated
Special Remembers Vincente
Outstanding Performance in a Liza Minnelli: Live from Radio
1993 Nominated
Variety Program City Music Hall
Best Leading Actress in a
1965 Flora the Red Menace Won
Musical
1974 Special Tony Award Liza at the Winter Garden Honored
[67]
Best Leading Actress in a
1978 Tony Awards The Act Won
Musical
Best Leading Actress in a
1984 The Rink Nominated
Musical

2009 Best Special Theatrical Event Liza's at The Palace... Won [68]

1990 Grammy Legend Award Liza Minnelli Honored

1997 Grammy Awards Gently Nominated [69]

Best Traditional Pop Vocal
Performance [70]
2010 Liza's at The Palace...! Nominated

See also
Honorific nicknames in popular music
List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

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Further reading
Leigh, Wendy (1993), Liza: Born a Star. E.P. Dutton
Mair, George (1996), Under the Rainbow: The Real Liza Minnelli. Carol Publishing
Schechter, Scott (2004), The Liza Minnelli Scrapbook. Kensington Books/Citadel Press
Spada, James (1983), Judy and Liza. Doubleday
Wimmer, Martin (2018), Clockwork Liza. Star und Künstlerin: Das Lebenswerk der Liza
Minnelli

External links
Liza Minnelli (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591485/) at IMDb
Liza Minnelli (https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/68333) at the Internet Broadway
Database
 Liza Minnelli (http://www.lortel.org/Archives/CreditableEntity/11652) at the Internet Off-
Broadway Database
Liza Minnelli (https://www.allmovie.com/artist/p49495) at AllMovie

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