{"product_id":"liza-with-a-z","title":"Liza With a Z","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Minnelli, Liza\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Live\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 25-10-1990\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Selections: Disc 1 Yes God Bless The Child Say Liza (Liza With A “Z”) It Was A GoodTime I Gotcha Son Of A Preacher Man Ring Them Bells Disc 2 Bye Bye Blackbird You’ve Let Yourself Go My Mammy Cabaret Medley\/Bows\nThe Holy Grail for Liza Minnelli fans finally resurfaces on vinyl after 40-some years. Remastered and for the first time released as a 2LP set, Liza with a “Z”, is the audio document from a splashy, award-winning TV special from 1972. 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.\nLiza 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 the 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.\nLiza 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. 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.\nAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 074643176224\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0074643176224\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Audio CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IDshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891483668739,"sku":"JI-S0NH-M888","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0030\/9765\/7390\/products\/71ADfkEnMnL.jpg?v=1710866375","url":"https:\/\/idshop.ca\/en\/products\/liza-with-a-z","provider":"ID Shop.ca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}