Liza Minnelli – Liza With A "Z" (A Concert For Television) (LP)

Label: Vinyl 180 – VIN180LP056, Columbia – VIN180LP056
Format:
2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 gram
Country: UK & Europe
Released: Aug 26, 2013
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Musical, Vocal

 

Liza with a "Z" is a 1972 concert film made for television, starring Liza Minnelli, produced by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse. Fosse also directed and choreographed the concert, and Ebb wrote and arranged the music with his song-writing partner John Kander. All four had recently completed the successful film adaptation of Cabaret. According to Minnelli, Liza with a "Z" was "the first filmed concert on television". Singer sponsored the production, even though producers did their best to prevent the sponsors from seeing rehearsals, fearing they would backout due to Minnelli's short skirts.

Filmed on May 31 at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, after only eight weeks of rehearsals, the concert was shot with eight 16mm film cameras at the insistence of Fosse, in contrast to other television specials of the time which were all shot on videotape.