Ladies' night Nov 7, 2009
She performed her links from swings and giant cocktail glasses and even paid homage to Liza Minnelli in Cabaret during a song medley. "Some of the things that the girls are doing, the way they are performing and delivering it - even halfway done in rehearsals - is just brilliant," Perry told BBC News. (BBC News -- Europe)
Ajay's slim pickings Oct 17, 2009
Sadly, this has been the case for the Sydney drag performer Trevor Ashley, who has been busy in rehearsals for his upcoming ''tribute'' show, Liza on an E, which has its debut next Thursday at the Civic Hotel's cabaret bar. PS first wrote about Ashley last month when his remarkable impersonation of New York's plastic-surgery poster girl, Jocelyn Wildenstein, went viral on the internet. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
An 'X' and the reason why Oct 14, 2009
WHILE many of her contemporaries rest on their cabaret laurels, Liza Minnelli still harbours a hankering for the hot tickets in town ... The 63-year-old told the Herald's cabaret correspondent, Bryce Hallett, she would play a marriage celebrant at the wedding of two of the show's gay characters, Stanford and Anthony, before performing the Beyonce hit Single Ladies backed by two female dancers in wigs ''just like me. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Minnelli's trademark effervescence shines through Oct 14, 2009
Aside from her near-mythical lineage, Minnelli shot to fame playing Sally Bowles in the 1972 film Cabaret. She won an Academy Award for best actress. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Walk-on Wildenstein a coup Sep 19, 2009
Having graced the stage only twice in recent months, most recently at a Sydney Theatre Company fund-raiser during which she sang Memories from her one woman show Cat, Coupe has been generating quite a bit of buzz, and not just around Sydney's cabaret bars. News of the show has managed to travel all the way to the Big Apple where Wildenstein has been hogging the kitty litter all to herself. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Queen of the comebacks Jun 6, 2009
Never mind she's the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minelli, or one of the finest performers of her generation, or even an Academy Award-winning actress for her role in Cabaret ... As lives go, hers has been equal part cabaret, horror movie and sit-com ... "I like Hugh Jackman but Fred Ebb, who wrote Cabaret, called me up one day and said, 'I will throw myself in front of the door before I let you go into that theatre. They got it all wrong!' ". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
TV star Harris readies for Tony awards Jun 6, 2009
The actor made his Broadway debut in 2002 when director Daniel Sullivan put a replacement cast into the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Proof." From there, Harris went into "Cabaret," as its androgynous, flamboyant master of ceremonies. Harris has been steeped in the work of Stephen Sondheim, too: a pair of concert versions of "Sweeney Todd" - one in Los Angeles, the other New York - in which he played the murderous Todd's young assistant Tobias. (Boston Globe)
The stage is Liza's Cabaret Apr 9, 2009
Your time on Earth is over, and your particular afterlife consists of sitting in a comfortable chair while a fragile figure on stage sings one show tune or cabaret song after another ... In her prime her 20s she made gold records, starred in now-classic musicals and won an Oscar for her performance in Cabaret ... Cabaret came out the same year as the Rolling Stones's Exile on Main Street. (Globe and Mail)
Destiny's child Mar 20, 2009
Richardson's Tony award came in 1998, for best actress in a musical, for her performance as Sally Bowles, the desperately needy singer in decadent Weimar Berlin who is at the centre of Cabaret. It was a remarkable award: Richardson's strengths did not include singing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Richardson was a true daughter of the theater Mar 19, 2009
Her most prominent New York appearance came a decade ago in the Roundabout Theatre Company's long-running revival of "Cabaret," for which she won a 1998 best-actress Tony ... A year after "Cabaret," Richardson returned to Broadway in 1999's "Closer," Patrick Marber's scathing look at love and sex and the end of the 20th century. (Yahoo News)
Natasha Richardson, 45; part of acting dynasty, won Tony Award Mar 19, 2009
She won a Tony Award for a 1998 revival of the musical "Cabaret," in which she played the bohemian showgirl Sally Bowles, and she starred in a variety of film, television, and stage productions, ranging from Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire" (2005) on Broadway to a Disney remake of "The Parent Trap" (1998) ... In "Cabaret" she took on the role of Sally Bowles, the singing-and-dancing lead that Liza Minnelli played in the 1972 movie. (Boston Globe)
Natasha Richardson, actress, dies at 45 Mar 19, 2009
Ms. Richardson's Tony Award came in 1998, for best actress in a musical, for her performance as Sally Bowles, the gifted but desperately needy singer in decadent Weimar Berlin who is at the center of "Cabaret.". It was a remarkable award: Ms. Richardson's strengths did not include singing. (International Herald Tribune)
