LIZA MINNELLI: SAM FOUND OUT: A TRIPLE PLAY {REVISED FINAL VERSION} (TV)
Summary
This program consists of three different plays -- each using virtually the same script and all starring Liza Minnelli -- in which a mysterious "Sam" factors into each climax. The first is a drama, written by Lanford Wilson, in which Minnelli plays a drug-addled hooker, "Sloppy" Jo, who an ex-cop tries to save from Sam. Mystery surrounds the relationship between the prostitute and the cop until the unexpected climax occurs, and Sam "finds out." In the second play, a romance written by Terrence McNally and Wendy Wasserstein, Minnelli plays a tap-dancing student trying to find love in the big city, possibly with Sam. That is, until she's swept off her feet by a fellow tapdancer, who lacks skill and has a big secret. In the third play, a musical by Kander & Ebb, Minnelli plays a woman whose potential nuptials are ruined because Sam finds out. Only this time, Sam isn't a person. Commercials deleted.
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Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: May 31, 1988 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:48:30
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:72343
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Theater Collection, The; African-American Collection - Drama
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1988
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Alexander H. Cohen … Executive Producer, Producer
- Fred Ebb … Executive Producer, Co-Producer, Writer
- Vern T. Calhoun … Supervising Producer
- Piers Haggard … Director
- Lanford Wilson … Writer
- Terrence McNally … Writer
- Wendy Wasserstein … Writer
- John Kander … Writer
- Liza Minnelli … Cast
- Louis Gossett … Cast
- Ryan O'Neal … Cast
- John Rubinstein … Cast
- Marilyn Cooper … Cast
- Trisha Gorman … Cast
- Kevin O'Connor … Cast
- Joseph R. Sicari … Cast
- L. Peter Callender … Cast
- Douglas Fisher … Cast
- Manuel Santiago … Cast