Ticket Alert: Liza Minnelli Is Coming to San Francisco

UPDATE, April 3: This event has been postponed. “Minnelli is unable to travel to San Francisco next week and is working with City Arts to confirm the new date,” organizers state. Tickets will be valid for the rescheduled event, or may be refunded. More details here.

When Liza Minnelli announces a stop in San Francisco, you can bet on two things: the audience will be full of divine decadence, and tickets will sell out quickly.

The singer, actress and survivor of everything under the sun appears at the Sydney Goldstein Theater on Thursday, April 9, as part of City Arts & Lectures. Talking in conversation with the cabaret singer Michael Feinstein, Minnelli will discuss her career, her new book Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! and — Minnelli being Minnelli — anything else that happens to pop into her head.

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, based in part on taped conversations with Feinstein, was released March 10. In the book, the daughter of director Vincente Minnelli and singer and actress Judy Garland, Minnelli, now 80, recounts her stage career, four marriages and struggles with addiction and alcoholism. The New York Times called it “a familiar reminder that growing up in showbiz can lead to awards and adulation, but also to heartache.”

Feinstein himself is no stranger to San Francisco. The interpreter of the Great American Songbook frequently appears at his namesake supper club, Feinstein’s, located inside Hotel Nikko in Union Square.

Tickets for Minnelli’s appearance, priced at $64–$84, go on sale to the public Thursday, March 19, at 11 a.m., and include a copy of the book. Members of City Arts & Lectures may buy tickets now, with memberships starting at $120 per year. Tickets and more information here.