Liza Minnelli News

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'.

Sam Harris has perfected a pretty good stand-up act over the years. He loves to expound on everything from show business and Liza Minnelli ... to surgeries and artificial body parts ... to dieting and even whine about how a toddler can radically alter one's comfortable lifestyle...he's into sharing news, issues, trends, gossip...take his New Year's resolutions over the course of three years: 'Don't look back!...Don't look!...Don't.' In there somewhere is a valuable lesson on how to downsize. Wait a minute, does all this jabber need a point? Even if he says absolutely nothing, Harris' greatest talent is to entertain, to put on a show. And that he blessedly does. As witnessed by Saturday evening's joyful Sam Harris & Friends on the El Portal Mainstage, boy oh boy, he can also still SING! So can all of his guests: Tony winner Levi Kreis, David Burnham, Todd Schroeder and Olivier/Ovation winner Lesli Margherita. It's been a while since I've seen this much overwhelmingly glorious talent assembled on one stage.

In BONNIE & CLYDE, the newest musical from Broadway regular Frank Wildhorn, Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes star as two small-town kids from the middle of nowhere that became the biggest folk heroes in all America. The production features direction by Jeff Calhoun, lyrics by Don Black, book by Ivan Menchell and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by John McDaniel.

Birdland has announced the return of 'A Swinging Birdland Christmas,' starring Birdland regulars Klea Blackhurst, Jim Caruso and Billy Stritch.

Contra Costa County's only professional orchestra, California Symphony, presents its first annual Holiday Pops Spectacular, featuring soprano Tina Lloyd Meals and Voices of Musica Sacra Chorus.

The Fred Ebb Foundation (Mitchell Bernard, Trustee) has just announced that its 2011 donation to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will total $1.2 million dollars, marking the largest single contribution in BC/EFA history. The foundation, which is funded by royalties from the late award-winning lyricist Fred Ebb's vast catalogue of work, makes an annual donation to BC/EFA. This contribution tops last year's donation of $1 million dollars which was, at the time, the largest single contribution in BC/EFA history.

British Singer-Entertainer, Toni Morrell returns to The Grove by popular demand with her critically-acclaimed one-woman show, "Remembering The Ladies." Voted "Best Solo Show in California Theatre 2010" and nominated for "Best Special Theatre Event in L.A. 2011" by Broadway World, "Remembering The Ladies" is a Multi-Media Tribute to the Legendary Ladies of Music, Stage and Screen through song, story and film clips.

Kritzerland has announced the release of the Original Broadway Cast Album of The People in the Picture, starring Tony Award winning actress Donna Murphy. The new CD features Book & Lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, with Music by Mike Stoller & Artie Butler and is now available for purchase at www.kritzerland.com.

The New York Pops orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Steven Reineke, celebrates the holidays with swinging seasonal favorites on December 16 and 17, 2011 at 8:00pm. Reineke has been heralded by The New York Times as 'young and vigorous, with a playful attitude that has been a pops orchestral tradition since the heyday of Arthur Fiedler...a polished, welcoming host.' John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, the couple The New York Times called 'a musical match made in heaven,' will perform with the orchestra in a program featuring festive holiday tunes such as 'We Need a Little Christmas', 'It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year', 'Go Tell It On the Mountain', 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy', 'I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm' and 'Little Bolero Boy'. Essential Voices USA, conducted by Judith Cluman, will also join The New York Pops in the festive concert at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

Tribute artist Peter Mac as Judy Garland is motivation enough to go on down to the Gardenia for a fun-filled evening of entertainment, and with Christmas fast approaching, what could be more pleasurable than a stroll down memory lane and TV's delightfully homespun The Judy Garland Christmas Special. In that very show audience get to see a really youngish Liza Minnelli (Glory Gale), a young Lorna Luft (Alissa Cote) and little brother Joey Luft (not so little David Marker). And very special guest star - this was pre Golden Girls - Bea Arthur (D. J. Schaefer), who camps it up buddy-style with la Garland.

After CONTACT (a show that featured all pre-recorded music) controversially took home the 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical, the 'Best Special Theatrical Event' category was created to include shows that fit neither the description of a play nor a musical. After Broadway legend Liza Minnelli won the Special Event Tony in 2009, the category was officially retired, allowing shows that qualified to be nominated in other categories.

The New York Pops orchestra, under the baton of Music Director Steven Reineke, celebrates the holidays with swinging seasonal favorites on December 16 and 17, 2011 at 8:00pm. Reineke has been heralded by The New York Times as 'young and vigorous, with a playful attitude that has been a pops orchestral tradition since the heyday of Arthur Fiedler...a polished, welcoming host.' John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, the couple The New York Times called 'a musical match made in heaven,' will perform with the orchestra in a program featuring festive holiday tunes such as 'We Need a Little Christmas', 'It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year', 'Go Tell It On the Mountain', 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy', 'I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm' and 'Little Bolero Boy'. Essential Voices USA, conducted by Judith Cluman, will also join The New York Pops in the festive concert at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.

Los Angeles' premier modern furniture store, Vioski, became host Thursday night to "While You Weren't Looking," an exclusive reception celebrating art, fashion and design, presented by Vioski and John Wolf Fine Art.

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".