Fosse also directed and choreographed the concert, and Ebb wrote and arranged the music with his song-writing partner John Kander.

Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News reviewed the film as being "sensational with an S."[4] After the initial broadcast, NBC re-ran the concert only twice more and did not screen it again after 1973.

[1][2] The film was not seen for over thirty years and was thought lost until 1999, when Michael Arick discovered that Minnelli owned the copyright and the two set about restoring the negatives.

[6] In 2005, Minnelli revealed to Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers and friends of hers, that she owned the rights to the film and that she had been restoring it with Arick.

They introduced her to Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment for Showtime, who agreed to finance the restoration, broadcast the film, and release the DVD.

This was made possible due to a new mix being created from reels of sound recordings Minnelli had personally archived after the original production in 1972.