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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1963
Judy's Daughter Reminds Critics of Kama's Success
By DOC QUIGG
Untied Press International
New York -flJrD- The slim
girl with the wide-apart eyes
came stumping into the shab
by old theater, the heavy cast
on her left foot thumping on
the bare boards, and said
"Hi!"
"How do you feel, Liza?"
said several members of the
rehearsal cast, almost togeth
er, "Fine," she said, her voice
cracking a little, and even
that tiny break in the spoken
tone carried something remi
niscent. She hobbled onto the stage,
shrugged off her red jacket,
plopped into a chair, and be
gan rehearsing a bit which re
quires her to unwind the dark
brown hair from its heavy
pile atop her head and let it
tumble.
Vivacious is an overworked
word, but on Liza Minelli it
fits. Not even a fracture of the
foot can dull a sort of built
in sprightliness she carries
into a rehearsal that requires
a lot of movement.
"What does your' mama
think about your going onto
the stage?" an interviewer ask
ed when she had a moment's
pause.
"If I
wasn't any good, I
know she'd take me off," she
said. "She wants me to do
what I'm happy and good at."
Mama isn't attending any
rehearsals, but she will be
there opening night. Her name
is Judy Garland, sometimes
known as "Miss Show Busi
ness." But on this one, she
wants all the publicity to go
to Liza.
Liza Minelli turned 17 on
March 12, and mama gave a
birthday party for her friends
and members of the cast of
this off-Broadway revival of
the "great hit musical "Best
Foot Forward" that opened on
Broadway in 1941 and served
up for stardom such unknown
teen-agers as June AUyson
and Nancy Walker.
Someone at the party asked
Miss Garland how she liked
the record that Liza had just
made of two songs of the
show.
"I loved it, I played it all
night," she replied, and then
her eyes moistened up and
she turned to Liza and said:
"Every time I hear it, I just
cry."
Three New Songs
Hugh Martin, who wrote
the music for the original, has
provided three new songs for
the revival - and he put some
added touches on a couple of
them for Liza (it s pronounced
Lyza) after she got the role.
Martin has a working knowl
edge of the family. He wrote,
expressly for mama, such
movie tunes as "The Boy
Next Door," "The Trolley
Song," and "Have Yourself
a Merry Little Christmas."
Liza has studied jazz danc
ing for years. Her singing
comes naturally. This will be
her debut professional appear
ance, except for a dancing
role in summer stock year
before last in a Cape Cod
town nobody ever heard of,
Hyannis Port.
About three months ago,
she was walking down a Man
hattan street when a man
from the William Morris agen
cy stopped her and said: "Say,
aren't you . Liza Minelli?
How'd you like to try out for
a revival of , . ." Three days
later, she was auditioning.
"She sang two songs for
us," said Producer Arthur
Whitelaw, "and she was bril
liant. She , sounds like her
mother. It's amazing, a cry
in the voice. The hesitations,
mannerisms. But in her own
way. You should have seen
Hugh Martin's face. He was
just goggle-eyed."
The dancing in "Best Foot
Forward" is strenuously ath
letic. On March 9, Liza made
a pilot error from mid-air
during rehearsal and cracked
a bone in a one-point landing.
The opening night was set
back a week to April 2.
"We think she'll have the
cast off and be ready to dance
by then," said Director Danny
Daniels, who was in the orig
inal cast.
The theater, off-Broadway's
Stage 73, has only 178 seats.
The stage runs the complete
width of the room, and there
is no orchestra pit. When the
cast thunders into "Buckle
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you're right there among
those prep school kids.
Today's rehearsal was spe
cial. It was the first rough
run-through of the two acts,
and the audience was com
posed of hardened specialists,
the cast of Irving Berlin's
Broadway musical "Mr. Presi
dent." A member of that cast,
John Cecil Holm, wrote the
book for the original and, for
the revival, combined two
roles for Liza so that she is
both a singer-dancer and the
comedienne character created
by Nancy Walker.
In Singing Role
Liza went through a sing
ing boogie-woogie role as part
of a trio, to encore applause,
and later got smash applause
when she wiggled through
Just a Little Joint With a
Juke Box." She had to retire
to the sidelines and watch her
understudy do her hectic
dance numbers.
But sitting there, she was
alive and acting. Five toes
peeked out of the cutaway
front of her foot cast, tapping
time against the cold wood
floor. There was the Infectious
smile, so reminiscent. And
she silently mouthed the
words of all the songs of the
other characters as they per
formed. ,
In the second act, she had
a spot alone on the stage,
with a newly written sad bal
lad. She stood there, a tall
girl in black slacks and fig
ured blouse, plaster-cast foot
thrust Incongruously forward
as if she had placed it on a
step. Wistfully twisting a
locket in her hands:
Tunes are for hnmmine.
Guitars are for strumming,
Dreams are coming true . .
Mama Recalled
And there were some In the
audience whose minds went
clear back over thp rainhnur
to another girl by a dusty
Kansas road in a motion pic
ture, singing with the same
catch In the throat. She got
a solid ovation.
Mama would have been
proud.
There's a rainbow round
the shoulders of Liza Minelli.
Perhaps resting on her shoul
ders like a misty, but real
and heavy, burden. It is hers
to bear, and she is 17, and
she bears it lightly.
After the run-through, she
talked a little. Said she had
gone to high school in Scars
dale for a while, had studied
French history for a year in
the Sorbonne university in
Paris, was living with her
mother here, like to read
good novels, and if she had
any hobby it was dancing.
She said she Just started
thinking seriously about the
stage two years ago, is now
attending acting school. Does
she have a particular goal?
"Yes," she said, with a
solemn face. "What I want to
be is an artistically success,
ful human being." And then,
bright and twlnkly: "How did
you like the' show?"
It was very good, should
be a hit. You were good.
Good luck.
"Thanks," she said, and
stumped off with her boy
friend to a restaurant for
an ice cream soda.
ELI
OFF-BROADWAY SHOW Liza Minelli assumes several
personalities with quick hair changes and ends up typical
teenager. She will have her mother, Judy Garland, in the
audience when she opens in off-Broadway revival of "Best
Foot Forward." (UPI)
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