The Liza Minnelli Scrapbook: Start Spreading the News!

By: BWW News Desk Oct. 06, 2004

"START SPREADING THE NEWS" : THE Liza Minnelli SCRAPBOOK a new book honoring the glorious career of the world's most dynamic diva hits stores NOVEMBER 2. This vibrant new addition to the "Scrapbook" series from Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Corp contains over 200 rare and never-before-seen photographs and a Foreword by Minnelli's musical arranger

"A star could not ask for a better tribute"
-Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter columnist and host of the Turner Classic Movies network

The very first book to focus on the beloved icon's body of work, THE Liza Minnelli SCRAPBOOK from Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Corp offers a vast treasure trove of momentos from a star's stellar career. Author Scott Schechter is noted as the world's foremost authority on Liza Minnelli, and presents the entirety of the legend's life and artistry. From her first time on screen in her mother Judy Garland's 1949 MGM musical In The Good OId Summertime, to Minnelli's triumph on the 2004 Emmy-winning Best Comedy Arrested Development, it's all here.

THE Liza Minnelli SCRAPBOOK is presented like one of Liza's smash Broadway musicals, including an Overture (the Introduction); Act One (Overviews / Chapters on each decade of Liza's life to the present); Intermission (Chapters on "The Liza Look," and "Everybody Loves a Winner," focusing on Minnelli's major awards); Act Two (More detailed Chapters on the star's output in each media -- Broadway, Movies, TV, Records, and Concerts); and even Exit Music (a Chapter on collecting Liza's work on DVD and CD, and the online sites devoted to her).

Along with Schechter's powerful prose on Minnelli's professional output, THE Liza Minnelli SCRAPBOOK also features a staggering amount of mostly never-before-published art -- well over 200 photos -- and the majority of the photographs are in glorious color (approximately 136 color photos of Liza, and 79 B/W images).

Another special feature is the book's Foreword, which has been written for THE Liza Minnelli SCRAPBOOK by Minnelli's musical mainstay : her arranger, accompanist, collaborator, and confidant, Billy Stitch. Stritch has headlined in every famed nightspot throughout the country. Recently he has served as Minnelli's musical director on her 2004 U.S. tour.

THE Liza Minnelli SCRAPBOOK is by an award-winning author, producer and historian, who has devoted thirty years to researching the careers of Minnelli and her mother Judy Garland, earning his status as the premiere Minnelli-Garland historian. TV shows Schechter has produced or consulted on include A&E's recent 2-hour Biography on Liza, and the similar 2002 E! True Hollywood Story. The many CDs he has produced, compiled and written liner notes for include Liza Minnelli : Ultimate Collection -- which the star enjoyed so much she raved about it in her latest concert souvenir program -- along with Judy at Carnegie Hall : Fortieth Anniversary Edition and The Judy Garland Show : The Show That Got Away. DVDs of Garland's entire 1963-64 TV series were the result of Schechter's efforts beginning back in 1998, including conception of the 2001 Songs For America disc benefiting the American Red Cross immediately after 9-11. The author's previous book "Judy Garland : The Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Legend" was acclaimed by the LA Times, Liz Smith, and the Hollywood Reporter which stated "It's the most complete retrospective yet published on a celebrity ... Schechter's research is as thorough as a Nobel scientist."

"What good is sitting all alone in your room -- except when you can have this book as a companion! It provides a wonderfully comprehensive tribute to a great performer and a beguiling personality."
-- Liza's Cabaret costar / leading man, Michael York.

* THE Liza Minnelli SCRAPBOOK has already been featured in Liz Smith, Playbill Online, and the author appeared on NBC'S prime-time news magazine Dateline.

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