The actor who portrays Liberace within the play, revered British Shakespearean Simon Russell Beale, tells the BBC that Liberace made a big “gamble” by taking the case to courtroom – had he misplaced, his profession may have been ruined. However Beale additionally observes that the “particular lie that Liberace instructed” underneath oath, when he insisted that he was “in opposition to the follow [of homosexuality] as a result of it offends conference and it offends society”, was “merely a part of [his] continuum of mendacity” – or not less than being evasive about – his sexuality. Because it transpired, the courtroom dominated in Liberace’s favour and awarded him £8,000 in damages – the equal to £167,000 ($225,000) immediately.
