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Before Liberace entered the world of glitz and glamour, the legendary showman crossed paths with history’s most notorious gangster and his girlfriend, forming a unique bond. Featuring a lavish original score, this world premiere musical explores the phantasmagorical life of the iconic performer and his nearly career-shattering struggle to maintain privacy with respect to his sexual orientation. Friendship, love, and the quest for redemption play out for one of showbiz’s most unique trios in the telling of this remarkable story.
Running time: 2 hours

The 2017 New York Musical Festival, which runs July 10 through August 6, will bring audiences four full weeks of new musicals, concerts, readings, and panel discussions. We spoke with Barbara Carole Sickmen (music/lyrics) about Ben, Virginia, and Me (The Liberace Musical). Tell us about your show! Roger O. Hirson, book writer (Pippin), and Barbara Carole Sickmen, lyricist/composer, have written an original dramatic musical play, Ben, Virginia, and Me (The Liberace Musical), emphasizing Liberace’s showmanship rather than his sexual orientation… which is neither whitewashed nor exploited.  The show’s music is original as is the unique and unusual concept of this score driven book. This is not a tribute show. The musical is in development and a Broadway production is its ultimate goal. After a big opening number set in 1946 Las Vegas and flashback to Liberace’s early chaotic family dynamic in the mid 30s, the book moves to Liberace’s “discovery” at the Stork Club In 1946 by Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and his girlfriend, Virginia Hill. Depicted is their (figurative) “menage a trois” relationship and the manner in which the trio fuels each other’s ambitions, dreams and aspirations in the …Read more