Liza Minnelli's new album is released — 40 years after recording it

Liza Minnelli's new album is released — 40 years after recording it She is known the world over as Liza with a Z, but the L could be for legendary, the I for incredible and the A for amazing. He started out with a nine-month run on Broadway a decade ago in "Beauty and the Beast" with Andrea McArdle and was tapped by Liza to be her opening act when he was just 16. She promises that Saturday's show with her six musicians will be more intimate than we've experienced here before -- and with a lot of different numbers. I hope the next time I get back to Vegas, there will be time so I can do the gypsy midnight shows for all of the other working entertainers on the Strip. He is a genius choreographer, and he choreographed 'Natural Man,' actually. The new tour promotes her long-awaited album "Legends of Broadway: Liza Minnelli Live at the Winter Garden" first recorded in January 1974. It went on sale Tuesday; for the first time, the show is available on CD and DVD. Back in 1974, Liza, then 27, sold out a monthlong run of 24 concerts in just 36 hours, setting a property record for the Winter Garden Theater on Broadway. So to have this come out and be reminded of how it was and how it was received is just lovely. The three new tracks are the standards "It Had to Be You" and "My Shining Hour," plus Stevie Wonder's " You and I. 'It Had to Be You' is just gorgeous, and 'Exactly Like Me' is hilarious. I always feel like I've never done anything. Showbiz always goes around in circles. It really is incredible how it's held up over forty years. It's hard, but I do get to come home in between when I can. I love it. I'd love to do those again. I asked Liza if her voice today was different from the way she sang for this new album back in 1974. When I filled in for her on 'Victor/Victoria,' we had to talk like a man and then sing like a woman. I am one of the few people in the world who came back from that. I talked a lot faster then," she laughed. "It's lower today, but that's it. He is brilliant. He choreographed the whole last show that I did. I wouldn't do it if I didn't love it," she told me on a break from the show's rehearsals in New York. Julie Andrews had the same problem -- actually from the same show. Remember, though, I was laid low for five months with my voice not working. I had nodes. Liza Minnelli's new album is released — 40 years after recording it Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 11/05/2012