Liza Minnelli News

Liza Minnelli is a star who's truly earned the status of 'living legend' For her work on stage and screen, Ms. Minnelli has won all of the entertainment world's major awards, including the Oscar (for her iconic performance in Cabaret), the Emmy, the Tony, and the Grammy. For this engagement, Minnelli will bring a concert that's sure to include many of her greatest hits, and certain to light up NJPAC's Prudential Hall with some major star power.

The Drama League's 28th Annual Benefit Gala Online Auction goes live on Tuesday, January 17 at www.biddingforgood.com/thedramaleague with over forty-five exclusive and elegant items announced (please see list attached), some of the highlights include:

Chris Durang launched a comic nightclub act in 1989 called CHRIS DURANG & DAWNE (John Augustine and Sherry Anderson) that came back to play clubs all over the New York area for the next eight years until they made their last public performance in January of 1996.

Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Liza Minnelli has signed up to appear at a major charity gala in London on 29 April 2012 to celebrate the work of legendary songwriters Kander & Ebb. The all-star gala at the Victoria Palace Theatre is being produced by veteran promoter and producer Barry Mishon in collaboration with John Kander, and will be in aid of the Ovarian Cancer Action charity.

If you're looking for a quick roundup of this week's events, look no further: here are some of the best articles the week had to offer!

Liza Minnelli, originally scheduled to play the VAN WEZEL PERFORMING ARTS HALL on Friday, January 13, 2012 at 8pm has cancelled her tour.

Mentalist Marc Salem will take you on a captivating and surprising journey through the possibilities of the human mind when he returns to New York with a new show "Marc Salem - Mind Over Manhattan" opening Saturday, February 18th (8PM) at the Concert Hall @ the New York Society for Ethical Culture (2 West 64th Street @Central Park West).

Starving Artist Studios, a new performing arts training facility in Central Florida, brings Tony-Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown to Orlando for a Concert and Master Class.

The Town Hall has just announced the 12th Season of their acclaimed BROADWAY BY THE YEAR® concert series which kicks off with THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1946 on Monday, February 13, 2012. The show is created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall. Initial casting includes Alice Ripley, the Tony® Award winning star of Next to Normal, Tom Wopat (Tony® Award nominated for his role of Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun revival/Catch Me if You Can), Kerry O'Malley (On a Clear Day…Annie Get Your Gun revival) and Noah Racey (Curtains), who will also choreograph. The evening will feature songs and dance from Irving Berlin's classic Annie Get Your Gun and other musicals including Call Me Mister, St. Louis Woman and Park Avenue. Ross Patterson is the musical director.

Contirbuting to the 'Shit Girls Say' phenomenon that has been blowing up Youtube recently is Broadway veteran Christine Pedi, who in the video below pays tribute to stage legend Liza Minnelli. Click below to check out her hilarious impersonation in 'Shit Liza Minnelli Says.'

The Carlyle Hotel's legendary Café Carlyle just kicked off a concert series last night, January 10, featuring Tony winner Paulo Szot. Szot will ring in the New Year with an all new program in a three-week return engagement through January 28 with Billy Stritch, Musical Director.

Feinstein's At Loews Regency, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post continues its Winter 2012 season with the return of three-time MAC Award nominee Jenna Esposito in "Italian Undercover!" In this one-night only appearance, Jenna revisits the music of some of the most popular and influential Italian-American pop singers of the 20th century, each of whom changed their names and performed "undercover".

Actress & nightclub entertainer Lucie Arnaz and Tony Award-winning actor and clown Bill Irwin have been named co-hosts of the 10th Annual Nightlife Awards at Town Hall.

The Coterie is set to present Cortes Alexander, star of Broadway's Liza's at the Palace, in an exclusive Los Angeles two-week residency.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, a musical based on the life of legendary singer Sammy Davis, Jr. is in the works. A workshop for the new show, titled Yes I Can, will be held at the end of February, as specified in a casting notice for the show.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts celebrates its tenth year and continues to gain prominence as a major center for art exhibitions with the 2011 Ingram Gallery exhibition schedule that includes the Frist-organized Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior, Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Work and the stunning exhibition of Egyptian antiquities, To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum.

The 1981 Arthur and the 1968 The Thomas Crown Affair, later remade in versions critically received far less enthusiastically than the originals , brings in the new year on Reel 13, THIRTEEN's weekly movie showcase for classic, short and independent films, Saturday at 9 p.m.

The Coterie is set to present Cortes Alexander, star of Broadway's Liza's at the Palace, in an exclusive Los Angeles two-week residency.

Broadway's Julie Halston (currently in rehearsals for Roundabout's Anything Goes) will host the Second Annual Broadway Belts! for PFF (Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation) Benefit on February 27, 2012 at 7:00pm at Birdland Jazz Club (315 West 44th Street).

As first reported on TVline.com, legendary singer and actress Liza Minnelli will guest star on an upcoming episode of TV Land's hit comedy series, 'Hot in Cleveland'.