Jackie Siegel gained notoriety for planning to build the largest private home in America, modeled on the Palace of Versailles in France.

Her dreams almost crumbled in the Great Recession of 2008, and she and her late husband became the subjects of an award-winning 2012 documentary film. She rebounded as a reality television personality.

But before all that, Siegel was Jackie Mallery who grew up in Endwell, N.Y., a bedroom community of Binghamton in Upstate New York, with big ambition and big dreams.

Now her colorful and sometimes difficult life will go up in lights on Broadway when the much-ballyhooed musical “The Queen of Versailles” begins previews on Wednesday, Oct. 8 for a Nov. 9 official opening. And her hometown is part of the show.

“It’s hard to believe. Did you ever think Endwe

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