COMING THIS FALL: LIBERACE: The Man, The Music & the Memories

Starring Wayland Pickard

 

 

Today producers Edmund Gaynes and Nancy Bianconi have announced their plans to produce LIBERACE: The Man, The Music & the Memories starring Wayland Pickard in New York. Dates for a Broadway theatre opening are being discussed. The production recreates and celebrates a Liberace Las Vegas showroom concert featuring Pickard as Liberace along with assorted special guest stars.

Making his New York stage debut as the great showman will be WAYLAND PICKARD.  Wayland is a Television “Ace” Award Nominee for HBO, Cine Golden Eagle Award winner and a Billboard Song Finalist and 2006 Los Angeles Theatre ADA Award Winner for “Best Actor”. He has been described by Dick Van Dyke as “A Great Showman” and by Phyllis Diller as “The Piano Variety-Artist of the Decade”. LA Metro Magazine recently called him “the new Mr. Entertainment”.

 

He has been featured in recordings, film and television. Wayland has appeared on “The Tonight Show,” HBO and at Carnegie Hall! He’s also appeared in such films as Beethoven’s 5th and The Great Santini. His television credits include a recurring role in the CBS television series, “Capitol”. As a composer, he’s scored music for film & television. As a performer, Wayland has shared the stage with such notables as Jay Leno, Lee Greenwood, Dionne Warwick, Dick Van Dyke, Larry Gatlin, Carol Lawrence, Pam Tillis, Bill Cosby, Andy Williams, Sandi Patty, James Darren, Carol Channing and many other celebrities.

 

LIBERACE: The Man, The Music & the Memories will be directed by Pamela Hall, veteran Broadway actress, who has most recently compiled a list of Off-Broadway directorial credits (Picon Pie, The Rise of Dorothy Hale, Trolls). She is currently directing  Danny & Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical, going into previews at St. Luke’s Theatre on May 2^nd.

The production has the approval and co-operation of the Liberace Foundation for the Performing & Creative Arts.