::Judy in concert::


Although Judy Garland came to prominence and gained popularity in films (and she herself has said that M-G-M has been the greatest single influence in her career), for the past 18 years Judy's professional life has been primarily in concerts and television. Wether a Garland fan or not, anyone one who has seen and heard Judy Garland perform in concert is overpowered by her uncanny ability to project her personality and her feeling for a song. Many have said, "she sings into the hearts of people" and 'Its as if she's singing just to me" or "I feel like I'm up there with her."


Others may entertain but Judy Garland captures and enchants an audience.


Judy had literally grown up on stage and was a vaudeville veteran at 13, when she signed for films. In the ensuring years M-G-M sent her and Mickey Rooney on countless personal appearance tours to perform in stage shows.


While under contract to M-G-M, Judy made her first formal concert appearance in July 1943, at the Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia. A capacity crowd heard her sing songs from her films and a selection of Gershwin tunes. The studio claimed that 15,000 people had to be turned away. That same year Judy made an extensive USO tour.


Although her personal appearance tours became less frequent in the 40s, she was well known in Hollywood as an eager and willing performer at benefits and parties.


When her movie career seemed at a forced end in 1950, Judy Garland turned to stage performing for financial and emotional rewards. Both came quickly.


In 1951, earning $20,000 a week, she was a smash hit at the London Palladium and carried her success across the Atlantic to New York's Palace Theatre.


Judy enjoyed another successful run at the Palace in 1956, and in May 1959, she played a one-week benefit engagement at New Yorks Metropolitan Opera House.


Perhaps Judy's most resounding success to date occurred in 1961 when she gave her now legendary concert in Carnegie Hall, which was recorded on the scene and provided her with her most successful record album, "Judy at Carnegie Hall."


Judy has given countless successful concerts throughout the world since then, and continues to be one of the biggest "in person" box-office draws.
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