BC/EFA Adds Liza Minnelli to 'Broadway Legends' Ornament Collection

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS announces that the legendary Liza Minnelli is the 2014 addition to its Broadway Legends holiday ornament collection.

Minnelli becomes the seventh - or perhaps it should be zeventh with a "z" - member of Broadway Legends series, joining Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera and Gwen Verdon to be celebrated in glass. Our Liza, draped in a sexy red sequined outfit, conjures up her signature 1970s Halston look when she won her second Tony Award for The Act. With the "City Lights" of New York as her backdrop and her hand placed confidently on her hip, our glittery Liza will be the star of anyone's holiday season.

Minnelli has won four Tony Awards, an Oscar, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globes and a Grammy Legend Award. She also has been a valiant supporter and loyal friend of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS since the earliest days of the crisis. She's headlined a 2011 concert at Town Hall benefiting Broadway Cares, celebrated the 2006 debut of the Liza with a "Z" theatrical broadcast with a BC/EFA benefit at Ziegfeld Theatre and made a surprise appearance at the 2009 Easter Bonnet Competition.

"I'm simply delighted and so honored to be immortalized with such a wonderfully crafted ornament," Minnelli said. "I'm especially proud to help support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, an organization that has been very dear to my heart for more than two decades."

The 6-inch-tall glass Liza ornament was designed exclusively for Broadway Cares by renowned artist Glen Hanson with the Christopher Radko Company. To purchase, visit broadwaycares.org or call 212-840-0770 x. 238

Two other Legends ornaments are still available: Andrews in My Fair Lady and Verdon in Sweet Charity.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 BC/EFA has raised more than $250 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.

Broadway Cares awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide and is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative and the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic.