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 Yonkers, Dirty 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 Town, Master
Class, Cabaret, The Guardsman, Annie Get
Your Gun, I Do! I Do!, Educating Rita, Vanities,
and Mack And Mabel, to name just a few.
She has appeared on television in The Lucie
Arnaz Show, Sons And Daughters, The Black Dahlia, The
Mating Season, Who 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
Thoughts, Billy Jack Goes To Washington, The Pack, Wild
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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