Liza Minnelli in conversation with Michael Feinstein
EGOT winner Liza Minnelli speaks publicly for the first time about her recovery journey, career, and life alongside Michael Feinstein at Sydney Goldstein Theater.
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Minnelli is addressing her decades-long recovery journey publicly for the first time — an unusually candid entry point into a life lived at the intersection of Hollywood royalty, Studio 54, and cultural upheaval.
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony winner Liza Minnelli — daughter of Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli — joins pianist and musical confidant Michael Feinstein for a rare and candid public conversation at Sydney Goldstein Theater. The evening marks the first time Minnelli has spoken openly about her lifelong recovery from substance use disorder, a subject she describes as central to who she is.
The conversation spans a career that touched nearly every corner of twentieth-century culture: her collaborations with Bob Fosse, her role in Cabaret, a friendship with Frank Sinatra, and evenings at Studio 54 alongside Halston, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, and Princess Diana. Feinstein, himself a chronicler of the Great American Songbook, is the rare interlocutor with both the musical fluency and personal history to draw Minnelli out.
City Arts & Lectures has long excelled at placing major figures in an intimate, unscripted format — and this is precisely the kind of conversation that rarely happens on stage: a genuine reckoning with a life, not a retrospective celebration of it.