Liberace and What's-his-name: Two Musicals About Real-Life Artists, Visual and Performing, Performed Artfully at NYMF
When art imitates life in the arts, there can be artistic differences. At the festival closing Sunday, August 6, two ambitious NYMF shows celebrate real-life artistic American men: one still famous (Liberace), one whose fame was fleeting (painter John Banvard). Subtitled The Liberace Musical, the efficiently entertaining Ben, Virginia and Me has many moments of heart, is often a hoot, and I think we have a hit! Geora…