Concerts
Garland appeared in concert over 1,100 times. Listed below are some of her key concert performances.
| Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| July 10, 1943 | Philadelphia | Gives first solo concert at the Robin Hood Dell; Andre Kostelanetz conducts the orchestra. |
| April 9, 1951 | London | Garland opens her new show at the London Palladium; the show is performed twice nightly with Wednesday and Saturday matinees. |
| July 1, 1951 | Dublin | Performs in Ireland at the Theatre Royal, Dublin for 14 sold-out performances where her show was performed for 50,000 people which was unprecedented for the time. Upon arrival in Dublin, she was met by huge crowds to whom she sang from her dressing room window. |
| October 16, 1951 | New York City | The legendary Palace Theater opening - the show runs for 19 weeks and breaks all box office records. She returns from 11/16/51–2/24/52. |
| 1956 | New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada | Garland performed a four-week stand for a salary of $55,000 per week, making her the highest-paid entertainer to work in Las Vegas to date. Despite a brief bout of laryngitis, her performances there were so successful that her run was extended an extra week. |
| May 11, 1959 | New York City | Opens at the Metropolitan Opera House, in New York for a 7 night run. |
| October 3, 5, 1960 | Paris | Palais de Chaillot, dubbed by French critics "La Piaf Americaine" |
| October 28–29, 1960 | Paris | Concert at the famed Olympia |
| October 1960 | Amsterdam | The concert is broadcast live on European radio and is considered to be on a par with the Carnegie Hall performance the following year. |
| April 23, 1961 | New York City | The legendary concert at Carnegie Hall. |
| September 16, 1961 | Los Angeles, CA | Performs the Carnegie Hall concert at the Hollywood Bowl to sold out audience in spite of heavy rain. |
| May 1964 | Sydney/Melbourne | Perhaps Garland's most unsuccessful tour and causes much controversy. The reviews for the two Sydney concerts were positive. However, the Melbourne portion of the tour was a disaster for her. The audience was angry over her late appearance and she was unable to remember lyrics and to slur those that she did remember. She left the stage in tears after only 20 minutes. It was the first time in her career that she received negative notices and she was heckled and jeered by an audience. |
| November 8, 15, 1964 | London | Performs at the London Palladium with daughter Liza Minnelli in a one-off event for ITV. The concert is recorded and released as a 2 record album LP set by Capitol Records. |
| July 31, 1967 | New York City | Returns to the Palace Theatre for a 4 week sold-out run. |
| August 31, 1967 | Boston | Largest audience; over 100,000 people attend her free outdoor concert on the Boston Common. |
| December 25 & 27, 1967 | New York | Appeared at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum theatre. |
| March 25, 1969 | Copenhagen | Garland's final concert, at the Falkoner Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Judy Garland Performances
Famous quotes containing the word concerts:
“If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The concerts you enjoy together
Neighbors you annoy together
Children you destroy together
That make marriage a joy”
—Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)