Liza With A Z (A Concert For Television) - Liza Minnelli

Advantages: Lots of up-tempo music
Disadvantages: Sounds too much like a solo Minnelli album

...The Act is a musical by my favourite Broadway team of songwriters, John Kander and Fred Ebb, and yet I always find it a little disappointing. Famous for writing Cabaret, Chicago and New York, New York, the two of them supplied a series of star turns for Liza Minnelli, as a nightclub star, and hence the C sounds very much like a Liza album, with a couple of other tracks thrown in. The songs aren't bad, and some of them are rather good indeed. 'Arthur in the Afternoon'. for example, is top notch comedy, delivered perfectly by Liza, and the number sung by the chorus members (presumably while Liza had forty winks to get her breath back), 'Little Do They Know', works very well as an insiders view of being a Broadway-type dancer. There is also a lovely ballad called 'My Own Space', which Minnelli carries off fairly well. Unfortunately... Read review

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Advantages: easy to read, fascianting
Disadvantages: some facts repeated

...simplistic so I think this book could easily be used as background reading material for A-level or university students studying this period. I liked the detailed footnotes as it meant you could explore the topic further if you so wished. Liza Picard has written a number of books relating to the social history of London in different eras. (There are ones on Elizabethan, and Victorian London as well as Samuel Johnson's London in the 18th century.) I really enjoyed the one on Restoration London, as it was informative and easy to read. I will certainly be reading some of her other books This book can be bought on Amazon for £5.99... Read review

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Advantages: quirky/ interesting insight into loss
Disadvantages: some people may think nothing happens

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