One Night. One Chance. One Liza (With a ‘Z’).

It's a tragedy that Mrs Kourlas didn't feel it necessary to include the name of the film's editor. The editor was Oscar winning film editor, Alan Heim. He was nominated for an Emmy for his work on Liza With a Z. What makes a film, a film, is the editing. Nobody spends more time with director than the editor. There is nothing watched on television, in a movie theater, or on the internet that hasn't been touched by the art of editing. "angles of the camera allow for a 360-degree view" angles need to be discovered, finessed and fine-tuned by an editor. Bob Fosse would agree, wholeheartedly. It's a pity Mrs Kourlas, and others, aren't aware of the collaborative nature of the art of recorded performance. I suggest she began her education by watching another film; The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing.

Because I have been thinking of Hal Prince this week, I watched "Cabaret" on Netflix. The casting director made no mistakes, Michael York was never more glamorously filmed, and Liza's every song performance is vital. Her energy matched that of peerless Joel Grey's in "Money Makes The World Go Round" - they trade off being mirrors and partners in that performance. Now I'll go visit YouTube - "Liza With A 'Z'" was only available to me on a vinyl recording back in 1972.

Readers: If you want to continue to enjoy this show -- don't examine the real Liza Minnelli. the person, not the performer. She's contemptible. Look it up for yourself.

The superlatives and gushing and analysis from Ms. Kourlas still don't do justice to Liza Minnelli's (and company's) mind-blowing, mesmerizing, colassal, out of this world, performance. Go see it!

I was 15 when this aired, and my mother and I loved it. We were fortunate to see Liza in “The Rink” on Broadway, in 1984, and also in concert with Frank Sinatra, in 1987. An amazing and incomparable talent! Now off to search for “Liza” on YouTube!

This album, along with the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed, was my first "grown up" music album purchase. I was 16. She was amazing - still is.

I was 16 when this show first aired in 1972. The TV happened to be on (OK, it pretty much always was) and the show just came on and I watched it from start to finish mesmerized. What a talent! What an entertainer! Liza has always impressed me as someone from her parents' generation who somehow found her way into the future in a time warp. Old Hollywood, old Broadway, the American Songbook, all those things are from a previous generation but are also part of her one-person generation. Someone once wrote that Liza is the only person from today who can use the word "swell" with no affectation or anachronistic feeling. I agree and will risk the affectation to say Liza is just swell.

Being a Liza myself, and in middle school when this was performed, I was thereafter always "Liza with a Z". To all the people who could never say my name properly, if I said "like Minnelli" then people got it. Then there was a long period where anyone too young would ask "who?". I hope they watch this and stop asking who.

Congrats on your official appointment Gia. And kudos for a wonderful piece on "Liza with a Z".

This was before my time but having seen Cabaret, I looked from more of Ms. Minelli's performances on Youtube. Regardless of one's tastes, it's worth checking out. She puts her whole body and soul into the performances and holds nothing back. My favorite is Bye Bye Blackbird.

LIZA!!! One of a kind! I remember when she substituted for an ailing Gwen Verdon in the original CHICAGO in 1975. I'll never forget how she took control of the role of Roxie Hart in a matter of days; one would have thought she'd been doing the show for months. She matched the glorious Chita Rivera step by step, and when they actually did FLIPS, it simply brought the house down, for no one believed Liza (or anyone else, for that matter) could have mastered such dancing with so little rehersal time. Well, once a Fosse dancer, always a Fosse dancer, and Liza was a true Fosse dancer!

I’ve never seen this film (though I will soon change that), but I did see Ms. Minnelli live in concert. She remains in my memory as the most multi-talented, charismatic performer I have ever seen. She was magnificent!

I saw this the evening it was first shown. It was a highlight and I craved to see it again. Was overjoyed when Showtime brought it back. Thanks for writing this review, which articulates everything I thought about it and about Liza. Years later I saw her in concert in Los Angeles, right after her throat surgery. She couldn’t sing well but the audience hinges themselves into every movement of her body. It was riveting. It’s he same for her Cabernet performance, which had an urgency you don’t normally see unless the actor truly embodies the role.

My parents had this concert on 8-track and they played it in our car throughout the 70's, with the windows rolled up, chain-smoking, and the air conditioner at full blast. That and Jackson Browne's Running on Empty are the soundtracks of my childhood. I never saw the concert until the DVD came out about 15 years ago. It is sublime. The dancers are astonishing. Her performance is so alive and present and joyful. There is a guilelessness to the whole evening that I just adore. Wish I had known about this screening sooner - I can't get up there tonight but will watch it again on DVD!

Liza Minelli set the baseline for every performance and entertainer. Nobody did it better and no one ever has or will!

I vividly remember watching the original telecast in my college dorm room. I even remember that it was sponsored by Singer sewing machines! Liza was riveting. A couple of years ago I saw her perform at a historic theatre in Galveston. She still had that extra special something that only true stars have.

I am so looking forward to seeing this filmed show in it's entirety, as I've only saw some clips of Liza's bravura performance. When I worked as an Usher on Broadway quite a few seasons back, I worked at Fosse and I was so elated! At that time, Contact The Musical, Swing The Musical and Fosse all had dance numbers with Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing. Hands down Fosse"s version was the best and so incredible. I also look forward to seeing it performed tonight by the student at LaGuardia. It should be a wonderful evening!

I loooooove Liza!

I watched that concert from my bedroom in Allentown, PA - a school kid amazed at what I saw. I had never seen anything like it and as a singer had been taught never to growl, scream, or shriek the way she did. But I loved it. Got the album, have had it for years. The writer here goes on about her energy and charged performance in the dancing and the "up" numbers. But her ballads were - always were - extraordinary.

I was at the Lyceum for that concert in 1972. It was something. At 23, I was trying desperately to break into show business myself, and had been mistaken for her on numerous occasions around town. I idolized her, wanted to be her, but I wasn’t. So I left show business, but the memories linger strongly. Happy to know that we’re both still here.