Liberace reborn, at Milwaukee Rep’s Stackner Cabaret with Jack Forbes Wilson

Liberace reborn, at The Rep’s Stackner Cabaret – Milwaukee Metro, WI Local News – Fwix.

Jack Forbes Wilson and me a few years ago in MKE

Giving a plug and best break-a-leg wishes to Jack Forbes Wilson, an Arnold family friend, who’s starring as Liberace in a show at the Milwaukee Rep. It opens tomorrow.

Jack has been a very close friend of my sister Pati for years, as well as the rest of the family. He’s been a piano teacher for nephews and nieces, and he almost always lends me his bicycle when I come to town.

A superbly talented singer and pianist, Jack performs constantly in Milwaukee, Madison and throughout the Midwest on the stage and in cabaret (even occasionally, in the past anyway, with Pati Arnold, who is a jazz singer).

Liberace, truly larger than life. I was always so embarrassed he was from West Allis, Wisconsin (a suburb of Milwaukee), as if that were our only claim to fame. People couldn’t focus on Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne – it had to be Liberace. Like the article says, I know he liked sausage.

The other photo is from a furniture and art sale earlier this year, held at Liberace’s former home in Palm Springs. A friend and I just happened to be passing by and decided we wanted to see what it looked like inside. Ostentatious beyond belief and totally inappropriate for a desert environment, the palace did not disappoint.

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