Thursday, February 21, 2013

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts: An Evening with Lucie Arnaz


Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College (BCBC) continues its 2012-2013 Season with An Evening with Lucie Arnaz on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8pm. Tickets are $36 and can be purchased by phone at 718-951-4500 (Tues-Sat, 1pm-6pm), or online at www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org.

Daughter of showbiz royalty Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, Lucie Arnaz performs a concert featuring new arrangements of favorite standards by Gershwin, Ellington, and Porter, as well as Latin tunes made famous by her father and showstoppers from her Broadway career.

Lucie Arnaz has had an extremely diversified career spanning over 45 years in show business. She has starred on the New York stage in They're Playing Our Song (Theatre World, LA Drama Critics and Outer Critic's Circle Awards), Lost in YonkersDirty Rotten Scoundrelsand Grace and Glorie; in the London premiere of The Witches Of Eastwick; in the Coconut Grove Playhouse premieres of Once Removed and A Picasso; in national tours of Seesaw,Whose Life Is It Anyway?Social Security and My One And Only (Sarah Siddons Award); and in regional theatre productions of Wonderful TownMaster ClassCabaretThe GuardsmanAnnie Get Your GunI Do! I Do!Educating RitaVanities, and Mack And Mabel, to name just a few.

She has appeared on television in The Lucie Arnaz ShowSons And DaughtersThe Black DahliaThe Mating SeasonWho Gets The Friends?Washington Mistress,Death Scream and six seasons of Here's Lucy; on the big screen with Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Oliver in The Jazz Singer (Golden Globe Nomination), Down To You,Second ThoughtsBilly Jack Goes To WashingtonThe PackWild Seven and has lent her voice to the new animated fantasy about the NY Yankees, Henry And Me.

Lucie has performed the opening number on the Academy Awards (1981) and at The White House several times. She was Executive Producer of the I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special (Emmy nomination), and Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie (Emmy winner 1993). She recorded her first album for Concord Jazz, "Just In Time," and her newest CD, "Latin Roots," is a celebration of just what the title says. Lucie has been traveling the country and the world with her various concerts for over 20 years.  With her brother, Desi, she manages Desilu, too, LLC. With her husband, actor Laurence Luckinbill, she manages five grown children. Lucie invites you to visit her online atluciearnaz.com.

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