

She'd also been taking extreme precautions by pausing her career during that period in order to relax in privacy in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Despite those measures, she began experiencing complications that reportedly led her to spend 10 days in the hospital before ultimately losing the baby. According to the outlet, losing the baby was all the more tragic for Minnelli as she was alleged to have been five months pregnant at the time. In January 1981, the New York Times reported on one of those miscarriages. "I fell in love with him the first time I met him, and I have loved him with all of my heart ever since," Minnelli said in a statement published by Variety after his death in 2001. Despite the divorce, the two remained on good terms. In 1978, the spouses confirmed they'd separated, and ultimately divorced the following year. One key similarity between Minnelli's second marriage and her first was its brevity. this is going on with her husband standing there!" he wrote in "The Andy Warhol Diaries" (via The Guardian). "Like she was walking down the street with Jack Haley, her husband, and they'd run into Martin Scorsese, who she's now having an affair with, and Marty attacked her for also having an affair with Baryshnikov. Artist Andy Warhol, who traveled in the same social circles, wrote of Minnelli's complicated love life in his diaries, published posthumously. However, as The Guardian pointed out, the relationship between the two was built on friendship, not sexual passion. The music director for all shows will be Tedd Firth.Unlike the rumors surrounding her first husband, Haley was reportedly straight. I Could Have Danced All Night: The Lerner & Loewe Songbook will feature guest vocalists Melissa Errico, John Lloyd Young and Liz Callaway, and be performed June 5-6. The second program, Great American Crooners, will focus on Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Bobby Darin, feature guest vocalist Milton Suggs and be performed May 15-16. The concerts will be the first in Feinstein’s Jazz & Popular Song series at Jazz at Lincoln Center, now in its ninth season. They’re great works of art,” Feinstein said. His songs offer wonderful, original, innovative and fresh material. “If people care about good songs, they should care about him. It was wonderful to be a fly on the wall. He was working on the songs for Legs Diamond. When Feinstein performed at the lounge at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles in the 1980s, Allen stayed at the hotel for a week, and visited the lounge every night, to “get up and do things. celebrating her former husband, Australian song-and-dance man Peter Allen. Liza Minnelli collaborated with Michael Feinstein, pictured here, to create this week's concerts. She understands Peter on levels and in ways very few people do.” “She generously offered to help and will be the godmother of the evening,” Feisntein said, adding, “She told all of us a lot about Peter-her sensibility will be an important part of the concert. In an interview this week, Feinstein said that although Minnelli and Allen were married for a relatively short time, “she has remained his biggest fan as a songwriter.”įor the concerts this week, she suggested songs and dialogue. He also wrote the score and lyrics for the 1988 Broadway musical, Legs Diamond, and had a one-man show on Broadway in 1979.Īllen died of an AIDS-related illness in 1992. He also appeared often at Radio City Music Hall, which named him its official personality, allowing him to join the kick line of the Rockettes-whom he had idolized as a child-becoming the first non-member to do this. Allen eventually recorded 11 albums, performing in cabarets, concerts and on Broadway, as well as in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Central Park.
