Dear Friends!

Welcome! So happy you found me here where you can find ALL things LUCIE........with an IE!

With much too be grateful for, (especially surviving Hurricane Sandy with my entire east coast family in tact and without loss of even one tree or any flooding), I am looking forward to this Thanksgiving and Christmas at home in Connecticut with whichever Luckinbills appear and our closest friends.

And on that subject, be looking out for another LucieA Personal Items Tag Sale in the very near future via my friends at Connectables on EBAY with 100% of the proceeds going to The Red Cross to aide victims of Sandy in our area.

And I am looking forward to a busy and adventure filled 2013 dividing my time between home, Palm Springs and San Jose, CA., Indianapolis, Indiana, Pittsburg and Easton, PA., Lafayette and Shreveport, LA, Auburn and Brooklyn, NY, Ridgefield, CT. and Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, Canada making music with my "Lucie Arnaz: Latin Roots" concerts or with "From Lucie To Lucy.....To LUCIE, With Love" my new Video/Lecture presentation telling the stories of my mother's and my career and our work together.

Check the CALENDAR button above for exact dates and ticket info on it all and I hope to see you in the audience somewhere along the line.

There will likely be many more dates to come, but, I have tried to carve out some personal time for myself, this year, to cull through 50+ years of journals and archives beginning the process of finally doing some autobiographical writing.

Lugenbühl

In Family News:

My son, Joe Luckinbill, is still promoting his newest CD (artwork above, left), "Lugenbühl" and I think it is even better than the first. Some excellent writing and production on these new songs. I hope you will check it out. And his music has also been used in films and television now,too. Most exciting, Joe relocated and started his own recording studio in Los Angeles canvassing other new talent to produce. Check him out at joeluckinbill.com, on Facebook and on MySpace. You go, Joe!!!

My son, Simon Luckinbill, continues to make some amazingly beautiful and thought provoking art. To view his work go to SyArtGallery.

My multi talented daughter, Katharine Luckinbill, enjoys her busy life in the advertising world and also continues to post an online advice column on KATE-BOOK.com that is not only entertaining, but full of some solid tips on so many topics about which I had no clue she was so savvy. She is a heck of a good writer that girl. 

And, my üüüüber talented partner in crime and passion (and the father of all these brilliant babes), Laurence Luckinbill, has a fantastic website now complete with hours of performance videos (welcome to the 21st Century, Lar!!) created by our multi-talented writer-designer son, Benjamin Luckinbill. 

While we're at it, you might as well enjoy some of the first Luckinbill brother, Nick's, music tracks. We are pretty proud of Nick. He just had one of his tracks featured in a commercial on the Olympics!

What a fabulous bunch of talented artists are these children we made. Better than that, they are ALL great people trying to do something to enrich the happiness quotient on the planet.

Hope you enjoy perusing the site and, as always, if you have any suggestions, please pass them along to the webangels at benluckinbill.com!

Safe and Happy Holidays Everyone!

Besos,

Lucie in the News

  • VIDEO: ‘I Love Lucy’: Early Footage of Lucy’s Real Kids

    Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were beloved the world over for their iconic sitcom, “I Love Lucy,” but the 1950s Hollywood power couple tried to shield their young children from the limelight. (Full Article)

  • Laugh your way through Lucy Fest

    The headlining events of the festival are tonight's appearance by comedian Paula Poundstone, Friday's Stand-up Showcase featuring Tammy Pescatelli, which will be hosted by Ball's daughter, Lucie Arnaz, and Saturday's appearance by Billy Gardell of CBS' "Mike & Molly." (Full Article)

  • SPECIAL REPORT: Remembering Marvin Hamlisch At His Funeral

    The temple was filled to capacity -- with celebrities and longtime friends like Liza Minnelli, Lucie Arnaz, and Donna McKechnie, as well as members of the general public -- and throughout the service, one could hear lots of laughing and crying, often at the same time. ()

  • Lucie Arnaz to Perform as Part of Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts 2012-2013 Season

    Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts has announced programming for its 2012-2013 season. Among the highlights will be An Evening with Lucie Arnaz, to be presented Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 8pm. (Full Article)

  • Kevin Cuneo's Take30: Spirits of her parents live on in Lucie Arnaz

    How appropriate that Lucie Arnaz bears both her mother's and father's names. Her vitality reminds you of her legendary mom, the great Lucille Ball, while her warm, personable voice, which over the phone sounds almost musical, conjures images of her late father, Desi Arnaz. (Full Article)

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Lucie Achieves "MVP" Status

Broadway Musical MVPs - Book CoverA tribute to Lucie appears in the recently published book, Broadway Musical MVPs:  1960-2010, The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons written by Peter Filichia and published by Applause Books.

1978-1979
Rookie of Year:  Lucie Arnaz
They’re Playing Our Song

In the late 1970s, Marvin Hamlisch kept telling Neil Simon about the problems he was having with his then-girlfriend Carol Bayer Sager.  “People claimed she was a free spirit,” Hamlisch says, “But there was nothing ‘free’ about her.  She was very expensive.”

Simon turned her into the quirky and impossible Sonia Walsk, a would-be songwriter who both entices and frustrates well-established songwriter Vernon Gersh (Robert Klein).  Lucie Arnaz managed to capture all her lovable and maddening qualities, while adding a husky voice that sounded just right in dialogue and song.

That’s not what’s most remarkable about Arnaz.  She is, of course, the daughter of arguably the world’s most famous female comic – Lucille Ball – and co-starred with her in sixty episodes of Here’s Lucy.  And yet, Arnaz hasn’t a single mannerism to remind an audience of her mother.  For that matter, she has none of her father, Desi Arnaz, in her when she performs.

Take a look at Jason Gould, Barbra Streisand’s son, in the 1989 film The Big Picture.  Whether he knows it or not, he’s imitating his mother and can’t seem to find his own persona.  Lucie Arnaz did, to her eternal credit.