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Summary: LIZA MINELLI LIVE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
Comment: It is an extraordinary spectacle. Outstanding performance by Minelli, still in top form, singing, dancing.
Ensemble backing her is tops. So is music, lighting, choreography .
She was without a doubt the outstanding "One Woman Show" star in the world, from the seventies to the early nineties.
I also recommend buying 'LIZA WITH A Z", which was directed and choreographed by the great Bob Fosse.
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Summary: Liza at her Best!
Comment: I was one of the ones lucky enough to see this show live at Radio City! This is Liza at her best!!! Just absolutely awesome! I already owned this on VHS, and was so thankful that it has finally been released on DVD. This DVD does not have any extra features on it...just LIZA...and let me tell you, this performance speaks for itself! Liza and her Demon Divas put on one heck of a show!The show starts off kind of slow, unless you are a Liza fan like I am...then she starts singing Stepping Out and all people in the audience are glued to some crazy lady interrupting the show...What happens then is just one great production number with the Demon Divas and Liza.
Get this DVD while it is still available...you will not regret it!
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Summary: Energy and Emotion
Comment: "Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall" is an excellent live concert recording DVD that seems to suffer in undeserved obscurity alongside its beloved stable mate, "Liza with a Z." It gives us a young Liza, star of stage, screen and television, at the top of her form. It was made by many talented hands, and won a Primetime Emmy, so its obscurity is surely not deserved.
For starters, it was written for the stage and directed by Fred Ebb, of the greatly talented pair of songwriters from whom Minelli has gotten some of her most famous material ---try "Cabaret," or even "Chicago." It was choreographed by Susan Stroman, who has gone from triumph to triumph on Broadway recently - try "The Producers." (And Stroman actually directed the recent movie version of that hit play.) "Live" was produced by multi-talented Phil Ramone, directed by reliable tv hand Louis J. Horvitz. Jazzman Billy Stritch gets credit for musical supervision. Clothing was by esteemed designer Isaac Mizrahi; Liza's makeup was by deservedly popular Kevyn Aucoin. And then, of course, we get Minelli herself, backed by a good-sized orchestra that occasionally sings too, and her "Demon Divas," a group of women that's unusually inclusive by age and size, who sing and dance like, well, demons.
Then there's the star of course, one of the belters in the great tradition of her mother, beloved star of stage and screen, Judy Garland. Each can pack a song full of emotion while belting it out, but can still deliver a quiet one; can act out a song as few others, and can change pace on the spot. In addition, as a younger woman, Minelli's generally got more energy than her mother. The young star had not yet begun to have voice or hip troubles; she can work up a sweat dancing, and still deliver the goods vocally.
For the first act, Minelli joins us in Mizrahi's famous white trenchcoat. That act is on the quieter side, with memorable solo versions of "Teach Me Tonight," "Old Friends," and a cynical number Lotte Lenya introduced in 1929 Berlin, cabaret time, "So What." It concludes with a work by the French singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour, in that language, for a lovely emotional-laden tribute to Minelli's father. He, Vincente Minelli, went from art director at Radio City, as a young man during the 1930's, to a famous director of movie musicals.
The singer speeds up the second act. She's joined on stage by the Demon Divas; don't ask me why, but the way they were salted away in the audience, and stood up to demand to join her onstage just made me uneasy. But they sure do a job of work. During several medleys, the star and her divas give us fresh versions of favorite "Cabaret" tunes, a new take on her mother's "The Man I Love," a sexy, high-energy, white-gloved tribute to her close associate Bob Fosse, and a high-stepping, ever-so-appropriate to the venue, Rockette style tap dance. And soaked in sweat, lubricious in a bright red dress, she gives us an electrifying version of her signature, "New York, New York," backed by those divas, in black Mizrahi trenchcoats this time. The number of people who love Liza is no puzzle. What is? The relative obscurity of this selection.
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Summary: The Best !
Comment: What can I say about Liza. Nothing.
She's the best singer I ever saw.
This DVD is amazing. Buy it.
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Summary: Talent ~~Talent~~~Talent!!!!!!!
Comment: I came across my homemade video of this wonderful concert.
I sat mesmerized and even missed Jeopaedy to watch it.
Liza is ( in my Opinion ) the ultimate performer.
Her rapore with her demon divas,her Bob Fosse numbers, the costumes,the orchestra, were all topnotch.
It is top on my to watch again and again list.
I might even splurge on the DVD.
Mother should see her now !!!
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