Liza with a Z

Liza with a Z A Concert for Television is a 1972 concert film, made for television and starring Liza Minnelli. The film was produced by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse. As well as producing, Fosse also directed and choreographed the concert, and Ebb wrote and arranged the music with his songwriting partner John Kander. All four had previously worked on the successful film adaptation of Cabaret earlier in the same year. According to Minnelli, it was the first filmed concert on television. Singer sponsored the production, although the producers did their best to keep any of the sponsors from seeing the rehearsals for fear of them pulling out due to Minnellis short skirts.

After the initial broadcasts in 1972 and 1973, the negatives were stored in the vaults of NBC, only occasionally being brought out for Minnellis own personal use. In the 1980s, the original negatives were lost and feared destroyed. Michael Arick and Minnelli eventually tracked down the original negatives in 1999, in Los Angeles and New York. In 2005, Minnelli revealed to Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers and friends of hers who had produced the film of Chicago another Fosse and Kander amp Ebb collaboration, that she owned the rights to the film and that she had been restoring it with Arick. They introduced her to Robert Greenblatt, the President of Entertainment for Showtime, who then agreed to finance the restoration, broadcast the film, and release the DVD.The remastered film was accepted into both the Toronto International Film Festival and the Hamptons Film Festival for 2005 and premiered on September 9, 2005 at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres in Toronto. The television premiere was on Showtime on April 1, 2006. ........

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