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New York critics and theatre audiences fell under the spell of Liza Minnelli's unmatchable magic when she returned to Broadway's legendary Palace Theatre and played a recent sell-out engagement. Now, the Tony-nominated star is here on BroadwayWorld.com
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As an exercise in public relations, it was a success: there were oohs. Certainly there were aahs. There was gawking and pointing.
A portrait of Eloise, the Plaza Hotels perennially 6-year-old guest, who was invented by Kay Thompson in Eloise in 1955.
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Memorial Day has come and gone and in another two days "June will be busting out all over" to a Rogers and Hammerstein tune. Memorial Day meant something beyond remembering our veterans in those long ago days as once we celebrated that day when we put
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The Garden City News
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Zodiac Bar and Grill is the restaurant within Hagerstown Hotel and Conference Center on Dual Highway about a mile north of Interstate 70. Formerly the Four Points Sheraton, the hotel is under new management. It has a new name, a new look and new staff.
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Brenda Stone of Scott City and Keith and Christal Thompson of Chester, Ill., announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristin Kay Thompson, to Christopher Dennis Hoey Jr., both of Cape Girardeau. He is the son of
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Southeast Missourian
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Michael W. Smith performs Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells live in Tualatin, Oregon, at Rolling Hills Community Church on December 12, 2008.
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In Stanley Donen’s musical comedy , satire of the fashion world ends up being more of an homage. The story of a mousy bookstore clerk who is discovered by fashionistas and turned into a Parisian high fashion model, the film’s visual beauty nearly
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From the movie Funny Face (1957) Sung and danced by Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson ... Clap Yo' Hands Funny Face Fred Astaire Kay Thompson Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson in the movie "Funny face"
Audrey Hepburn with Kay Thompson in the movie "Funny face"
Janet Kay, Carroll Thompson, Winston Reedy and Trevor Walters performing live on Channel 4's 'Black on Black' Show in the early eighties.
Three-time (1982-84) Canadian champion Kay Thomson demonstrates her incomparable spinning ability in the Olympic ladies final. A fast-moving, sprite-ish jumper, she had an incredible gift for back spins. As Dick Button points out on the tape, this was a jumping era and skaters with spins as superlative as Elaine Zayaks jumps, never-the-less faired badly, in competition. Also the 1981 Canadian Silver Medalist.
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during his long and oh-so-memorable feature-film career. (Strictly because of time limits and unavailability,... ... Fred Astaire Dancing Partners Ginger Rogers Gene Kelly Cyd Charisse Leslie Caron Joan Crawford Judy Garland Eleanor Powell Paulette Goddard Rita Hayworth George Burns Gracie Allen Murphy Ann Miller Vera-Ellen Betty Hutton Audrey Hepburn Jane Lucille Bremer Fontaine Janis Paige Petula Clark Jack Buchanan Bing Crosby Marjorie Reynolds Virginia Dale Olga San Juan Kay Thompson ...
:)PLEASE COMMENT/RATE!!!!!!!! a Funny Face 1957 Tribute with Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson! my fav audrey movie! this took AGES to make sooo please tell me what you think!!:):) Han xxx ... "Funny Face" "Audrey Hepburn" "Fred Astaire" "Kay Thompson"
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"Liza's at The Palace," a new two-CD set celebrating Liza Minnelli's recent return to Broadway's Palace Theatre, arrives in stores Feb. 3 on the Hybrid Recordings label.
Helmed by producer Phil Ramone, the first CD features Minnelli's signature hits,
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Playbill
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Liza Minnelli takes a curtain call during a recent performance of Liza's at the Palace... in New York.
Hear more clips from the full interview with Liza Minnelli:
The first half of Liza's at the
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Funny Face is number four in Paramount’s and the third featuring Audrey Hepburn. This fashion fantasy musical, the first of the series in color, finds Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire falling in love in Paris.
The movie opens with a dilemma. Maggie
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Three stars – Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, the almost otherwise-unremembered (except for being the creator of Eloise) Kay Thompson - and a full slate of Gershwin songs make this light and delicate confection of a movie musical as airy and enjoyable as
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Joining the roundup on Monday, February 9, 2009 as Host will be Jim Caruso, who recently appeared alongside Liza Minnelli in Liza's At The Palace!, singing, dancing and celebrating the music and arrangements of the late Kay Thompson and the Williams
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Broadway World
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This is my favorite Audrey Hepburn movie. I like that it’s a musical romantic comedy, with terrific Gershwin tunes. (Hepburn does a surprisingly good job with “How Long Has This Been Going On?”) I like Fred Astaire as the jaded photographer Dick Avery (
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Comics Worth Reading
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Everyone knows the best thing about the Plaza Hotel in New York City is Eloise, the famous Kay Thompson children’s book character.
Sadly, two 7-year-olds in “Bride Wars” missed out on the bratty Thompson character when they visited the hotel 20 years
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It's still early in the year when people are dealing with the bills from their Christmas shopping, which means they don't have as much disposable income. This reduces the demand for DVDs, and studios are hesitant to put many marquee releases. Looking
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The Numbers
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Two of Audrey Hepburn's very best films, Funny Face and Breakfast at Tiffany's, are given the two-disc Centennial Collection treatment. Funny Face is the divine 1956 musical directed by Stanley Donen, with the eye of photographer Richard Avedon guiding
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Paper Magazine
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Posted by Chad Webb on 01.13.2009
Audrey Hepburn's first musical is triple-dipped. How does the new DVD stack up?
Audrey Hepburn: Jo Stockton
Fred Astaire: Dick Avery
Kay Thompson: Maggie Prescott
Michael Auclair: Professor Emile
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411Mania.com
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New York critics and theatre audiences fell under the spell of Liza Minnelli's unmatchable magic when she returned to Broadway's legendary Palace Theatre and played a recent sell-out engagement. Now, music lovers around the world will get the same
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Liza_Minnelli_Kicks_Off_CD_Launch_at_Lincoln_Center_Barnes_Noble_23_20090108
by Ira Gershwin. Funny Face is an American musical film released in 1957, with assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film was written by Leonard Gershe and directed by Stanley Donen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson. Richard Avedon designed the opening title sequence and consulted on the film, and Bill Avery was the still photographer. Contrary to common belief, only four of the songs are from 1927 Broadway musical production of the same name. ... FRED ASTAIRE He ...
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New York critics and theater audiences fell under the spell of Liza Minnelli's unmatchable magic when she returned to Broadway's legendary Palace Theatre and played a recent sell-out engagement. Now, music lovers around the world will get the same
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/LIZAS_AT_THE_PALACE_Original_Cast_Recording_Released_23_20090106
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The limited engagement of the critically acclaimed Liza's at the Palace . . .!, which was extended twice, ends its run at Broadway's Palace Theatre Jan. 4 at 3 PM.
Produced by John Scher/Metropolitan Talent Presents & Jubilee Time Productions, the
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Playbill
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December 30, 2008
So the cabaret year doesn't end with a bang but with a band, big and contemporary style — not with a whimper but with a winner. It's the Johnny Rodgers Band, led, natch, by , who's such a walking
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Backstage
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Liza's at the Palace...! (on Broadway at the Palace Theatre). The Oscar and Tony-winning show business legend returns to the Palace Theatre for a limited engagement offering highlights from her illustrious career and a tribute to
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Playbill
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Great Jingle bells song by Michael Smith and Kay Thompson. Its a very peppy song that has the lights dancing along. We have 25000 lights animated to music and are located in Kenosha Wisconsin
From my 2008 Christmas light display. 11000 LED lights.
will serve as Executive Producer. Along with a twelve-man orchestra led by conductor/drummer Michael Berkowitz and pianist/musical supervisor Billy Stritch, Lizas At The Palace! will be highlighted with many of Lizas showstoppers such as Cabaret, Maybe This Time, and New York New York all written especially for her by the legendary Broadway song writing partnership of John Kander and Fred Ebb. For the first time onstage, Liza will pay an affectionate salute to her godmother, the late Kay ...
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Liza Minnelli's back at the Palace for a limited engagement with an homage to her godmother, mentor and M-G-M marvel Kay Thompson.
It seems that every time Liza Minnelli makes a mad (if limited) run across Mama's Holy Turf the Palace Theatre she can be
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Playbill
http://www.playbill.com/features/article/124201.html
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Liza Minnelli’s new show, “Liza’s at the Palace,” her second comeback, begins and ends with Minnelli in a pin spot, striking her iconic triumphant pose: legs apart, right arm raised, fingers reaching to the sky. But is it a hail—or a heil? The show
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The New Yorker
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-Winners will be able to purchase $25 front row seats for the final 12 shows-
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- TheaterMania.com is proud to announce an exclusive agreement to run the online lottery for $25.00 front row seats to the smash-hit Liza's at
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Street Insider
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-Winners will be able to purchase $25 front row seats for the final 12 shows-
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- TheaterMania.com is proud to announce an exclusive agreement to run the online lottery for $25.00 front row seats to the smash-hit Liza's at
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Dec. 10 Performance of Liza's at the Palace . . .! Canceled
The Dec. 10 performance of the critically acclaimed Liza's at the Palace . . .! has been canceled "due to health reasons and doctor's orders," according to Minnelli's official website.
In a
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Playbill
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I don’t know how many comebacks a been-around human body over 50 is physiologically capable of pulling off before it drops dead, but in her electrifying new show at the Palace, Liza Minnelli, 62, like her mother before her, has done it again. Sparkling
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New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2008/o2/hey-it-s-comeback-kids-liza-mickey-wow
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It's very difficult to review a Liza Minnelli show. The highs and lows of this amazing performer's personal and professional life are so well known, and her appeal to her audience is based so much on emotion, that any sort of "objective" critique of
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After Elton
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'If artistically you are able to do one thing," Kay Thompson said in a 1957 interview, "you are more than likely able to do them all." It was a distinctly curious observation, borne out by few -- apart from the speaker herself. Thompson, whose life and
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2008 Christmas Lights to Kay Thompson's Jingle Bells by MIchael W. Smith using 32 channel Light-O-Rama controllers
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Liza Minnelli, as Sally Bowles, in a scene from the film Cabaret
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The Age
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Liza Minnelli has had plenty of comebacks during her long career, not to mention plenty of ups and downs in her personal life. In the star's latest comeback gig, which features an extended tribute to her talented and glamorous godmother Kay Thompson,
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Theater News Online
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Liza Minnelli returns to Broadway in this new musical revue. This is from the press release: "The evening will feature an incomparable Minnelli songfest including many of her personal favorites and signature hits, followed by a dance-filled tribute to
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NYTheatre.com
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IT may be time for a morato rium on Liza Minnelli's ca reer death watch. This in defatigable performer has endured so many problems - personal and physical - and has had so many comebacks that, in terms of sheer drama, she's outdone her famous mother.
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New York Post
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