She has a dancer’s mindset, where she does something, then says, “Let’s do it again.” She’s lovely, we’re just very tight. Is Liza aware she’s an icon? I think so, but she doesn’t take it for granted. It must have been very challenging to have a mother and that kind of anxiety of whether her health would be OK. She just kind of accepts it, but then she saw a lot of that with her mother. She can overcome those things and has-many times. Liza has had some medical problems that have quieted her down a bit, but that doesn’t mean anything. She has a great sense of humor, she will make you laugh louder than anybody you ever met. We can pick up the phone while we’re having dinner. We talk about what we’ve done that day, what we’re having for dinner, and if she is seeing Michael (Feinstein, the singer and pianist, her close friend) that day. We check in when things are good, and things are not so good. Liza also was always so excited about creating and playing and being no stage. I still think she is one of the most amazing talents. Her mother was one of the most inspiring people to me as an actor when I was trying to be in theater and movies. She ate, slept, breathed, lived for it, but look where she came from. We both knew that we were making something special when we were filming Cabaret. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. And we would talk about everything to do with the movie that we couldn’t talk about with the director. I would play “Morning Has Broken.” I love that song. Both of us were sleepy, and she would stay sleepy and I would play music and she would sleep on my shoulder until we got to the studio. When we were shooting in Munich for Cabaret, we would get up, and get into the car. I feel a sense of protectiveness towards her. I still call her that now, it’s the same relationship. From the beginning she was like my little sister, and still is. She is just one person who loves performing, and loves having a laugh. I have known Liza for over 50 years, isn’t that good? I never see the Liza on-stage as different to the Liza off-stage. I was a great fan of her mother’s, and also Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics of Cabaret, and who wrote everything she ever did. She was playing the very glamorous Cocoanut Grove club in Los Angeles, which is no longer there. In 2018, Grey directed the acclaimed and award-winning Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish. Grey, 88, also appeared in The Normal Heart and Chicago. The Oscar, Tony, and Grammy, and Golden Globe-winning actor is a longtime close friend of Minnelli’s and appeared in the movie Cabaret with her. (Tickets, priced $30, are available at and .) Tomorrow, they will join others to appear in a star-studded online event, Love Letter to Liza: A 75th Birthday Tribute Celebration, at 8pm EST. Arrested Development fans know her as Lucille 2.īelow, her show business friends and collaborators, including Busch, Joel Grey, Chita Rivera, John Kander-and in John Cameron Mitchell’s case, a much-influenced admirer-tell The Daily Beast about knowing and loving Liza, and what they think belies her determination and stardom. But she is loved for her loopy pizzazz, indomitable spirit, and songs like “Cabaret,” “New York, New York,” “All That Jazz,” “Maybe This Time,” and her brilliant 1989 album with the Pet Shop Boys, Results. She has battled many physical ailments, such as double pneumonia, viral encephalitis, two hip replacements, three miscarriages and a knee operation.
Like her mother, Minnelli has battled drug and alcohol addiction, has been much married (like her mother, to a gay man), and-like her mother-is a cherished gay icon. She has also won four Tony Awards, and has been nominated twice for Grammy Awards (a win would accord her EGOT status).
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