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August 18 , 2006 Well
it just doesn get much better than that! Everything was going smoothly
at Monday's Cast Party, then Liza Minnelli
stormed the stage! She sang “On Such A Night As This,”
a song about the golden days of Hollywood, written for her by the late,
great Marshall Barer. Then she persuaded our pal Michael
Feinstein to join Billy Stritch and I on Kay
Thompson's joyous “I Love A Violin.”
You can see more wonderful pix taken by Mark Rupp on
FLICKR!
The extravaganza even garnered a quarter-page color photo of all of
us in yesterday's Newsday! Yeah...we were fancy.
Of course, Nancy Anderson's 7pm concert celebrating
her brilliant CD, “Ten Cents A Dance,”
was jam-packed with fancy Broadway superstars, like Raul Esparza,
Jeffry Denman, Klea Blackhurst, Lance
Horn and Donna Lynn Champlin. The gorgeous
Nancy, Ross Patterson and The Little Big Band
perfectly captured that 20's and 30's jazz vibe, and we can't wait for
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Question of the Week! You may have been watching Jim's
video column on Theatermania.com, Jim
Caruso is...Prying!, wherein Jim asks various glitterati
personal questions. If you haven't seen it yet, catch up with the archive,
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Copyright Jim Caruso's Cast Party®, All Rights Reserved, 2006. Newsletter by: Traverse City Web Design
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