Watching a musical performance one time, a friend of mine turned to me and whispered, "This is the show-businessiest number I've ever seen." She didn't mean that as a positive comment or a negative one; just a recognition of how what was before us was all about show business and nothing else. It wasn't even trying to be anything else. The folks who staged it just wanted to give us, as Mr. Fosse once did, the old "razzle-dazzle."
I thought of that comment as I was watching this number from Liza Minnelli's 1992 show at Radio City Music Hall. Very show-businessy…
And then this next video is what I believe followed it…