 Originally "Stepping Out" was to be released in the spring of 1991 to coincide with Minnelli's New York concert stage show "Live from Radio City Music Hall", but because of a corporate restructuring at Paramount Pictures, the film's opening was delayed until the fall of 1991.Minnelli was interviewed on both "Donahue" and "The Joan Rivers Show", and she and the cast of "Stepping Out" (minus Ellen Greene and Julie Walters) appeared on "The Sally Jessy Raphael Show" to promote the film.On October 4, 1991, "Stepping Out" officially premiered in only a small group of theatres in the United States thereby only attracting small audiences.