![]() “To recreate some of her songs is so much fun, because the arrangements are so good.” “Kay did the first nightclub act where people really moved around the stage and hung microphones,” Minnelli explains. The show is based on the nightclub act of Minnelli’s beloved godmother, Kay Thompson, and the Williams Brothers. Her current concert, which she will perform at the McCallum, is called The Godmother and the Goddaughter. “It’s interesting, because their grandmother brings their mother who knows me, who brings their daughter who was a great big fan of Arrested Development.” “The funny thing is, I have so many young fans now,” Minnelli says. She also became a fan favorite on the cult TV hit Arrested Development in 20, which broadened her appeal. In 1989, she collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys for the successful dance hit “Losing My Mind.” Last year, she was the guest vocalist on an album for the rock band My Chemical Romance. Minnelli continues to evolve as an artist by opening herself up to new experiences and carefully choosing acting roles. Years of touring with acting gigs sandwiched in between marked much of the next three decades for Minnelli, highlights of which included a record-breaking three-week run at Carnegie Hall in 1987, a Grammy Legend award in 1989, and two Golden Globes. Her Emmy-winning televised concert in 1972, Liza With a Z, cemented her status as a gifted singer and dancer who knew the meaning of showmanship. Though Minnelli has acted in her share of films (her most notable being Cabaret, for which she won an Oscar), concerts have always taken center stage. In late 1965, she performed her first nightclub act, marking the beginning of her tenure as one of the world’s greatest live performers. At 19, Minnelli garnered her first starring role on Broadway in Flora the Red Menace, for which she became the youngest woman to win a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She briefly attended New York High School for the Performing Arts before making her professional debut at 17 in the off-Broadway Best Foot Forward with Christopher Walken.Ī year later, Minnelli’s first album, Liza! Liza!, reached the Billboard charts, followed by a co-billing with her mother at the London Palladium. In her teen years, she felt the pull of New York. After her parents’ divorce in 1951, she split her time with her father in Los Angeles and on the road with her mother, who toured the world as a concert performer. Born to Judy Garland and movie director Vincente Minnelli in 1946, she got her first official taste of stardom in her mother’s 1949 film In the Good Old Summertime. Minnelli certainly lived - and eventually transcended - the traditional lifestyle of the Hollywood kid. “For every kid in Hollywood, everybody was uncle somebody.” ![]() “He was my adopted uncle - Uncle Frank,” she fondly recalls. And, like many a celebrity who traveled through Palm Springs in the latter half of the 20th century, Minnelli found a temporary home at the Sinatra complex. In the 1993-94 season, she performed a four-show set at the McCallum for what she calls “a wonderful audience.” In February, she received the Steve Chase Humanitarian Award for Arts and Activism. ![]() Minnelli is no stranger to the Coachella Valley. 29, when she headlines the performing art center’s 20th anniversary gala. The good doctor brings her prescription of song and dance to McCallum Theatre on Nov. If there’s someone in the audience who’s going through a bad time, I can give them just an hour and a half of relief.” And if that’s what being a doctor means, then I think I’ve earned the. “All I know is that a doctor is supposed to make you feel better. “I had to think in my own terms of what a doctor does,” she says. The honor prompted Minnelli to put her work into perspective. Minnelli,” she says in her trademark breezy manner.Įarlier this year, Mercy College in New York City bestowed an honorary doctorate upon the celebrated performer for her charitable activities and a career that has spanned five decades and multiple genres. Liza Minnelli wants to share a somewhat unexpected revelation.
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