Editing Liza Minnelli (section)

===Theatre===
During 1961, Minnelli was an apprentice at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in [[Hyannis, Massachusetts]]. She appeared in the chorus of ''[[Flower Drum Song (film)|Flower Drum Song]]'' and played the part of Muriel in ''[[Take Me Along]]''. She began performing professionally at the age of 17 in 1963 in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical ''[[Best Foot Forward (musical)|Best Foot Forward]]'', for which she received the Theatre World Award, and also toured in ''[[The Fantasticks]]'', opposite [[Elliott Gould]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Willman |first=Chris |date=2023-08-13 |title='Fantasticks' Lyricist Tom Jones Was Sanguine About the Show's Tangled History With Hollywood, Including a Barbra Streisand Near-Miss |url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/fantasticks-tom-jones-recalled-stage-musical-hollywood-adaptation-1235695218/ |access-date=2024-04-01 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>

The next year, her mother invited her to perform with her in concert at the [[London Palladium]]. Both concerts were recorded and released as an album. Minnelli attended [[Scarsdale High School]] for one year, starring in a production of ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (play)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' that then went to Israel on tour. She turned to Broadway at 19, and won her first Tony Award as a leading actress for ''[[Flora the Red Menace]]''. It was the first time that she worked with the musical pair [[John Kander]] and [[Fred Ebb]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dialogue with Liza Minnelli, Fred Ebb, and John Kander |url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e1ec7ed-l0ad-edde-c0de-d9b1e55ed003 |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=NYPL Digital Collections |language=en}}</ref>