Minnelli on Minnelli: Live at the Palace was a concert presented by Liza Minnelli at the Palace Theatre on Broadway from December 8, 1999 through January 2, 2000. The show consisted of songs featured in films directed by her father, Vincente Minnelli (1903–1986).[2]
Production
A national tour of 17 cities was planned for the Spring of 2000, but it was cancelled after Minnelli developed hip problems and contracted pneumonia.[3]
Recorded over two nights at the Palace Theatre on Broadway, this was Minnelli's first New York show since her 1992 show from Radio City Music Hall.[4] The show was written and directed by Fred Ebb. Ebb had previously written Liza Minnelli's first club act in 1965, and her 1992 Radio City music Hall show.[5] Minnelli was accompanied onstage by six male dancers.
"The Trolley Song" was performed as an electronic duet with her late mother, Judy Garland, who had introduced the song in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. The Palace Theatre had been the site for Garland's "comebacks" in 1951 and 1967.[6]
William Ruhlmann at Allmusic.com framed the show in light of Minnelli's recent health and substance-abuse problems, commenting that she had "aged audibly: her voice is weaker, she struggles for breath, and her vibrato is wobbly...If Minnelli informed her work with age and experience, she might develop an interesting autumnal phase".[2] Of her duet with Judy Garland on "The Trolley Song", Ruhlmann wrote that "she passes from self-parody to a kind of pathetic competition she previously avoided. It may be that Liza Minnelli doesn't know how to age as a performer."[2]
^Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (12 February 2000). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 12–. ISSN0006-2510. Retrieved 17 March 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (4 March 2000). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 40–. ISSN0006-2510. Retrieved 17 March 2013. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
