Welcome, My Friends!

Welcome to "the lusty month of May," as they say in Camelot!

I'm taking a bit of a personal break to tend to some writing and producing chores for upcoming talks I will be giving later in the year. These events will celebrate both my mother’s and my careers, and honor the 100th anniversary of her birth, the 60th anniversary of the I Love Lucy show, and the 60th anniversary of....me!

Friends in Omaha can catch me on the 12th in an evening of standards and show tunes for The Child Saving Institute. Click the CALENDAR tab above for ticket and location information on all these dates.

And I am very excited to be included in Peter Filichia’s new book, Broadway Musical MVPs 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons. (See below.) Thank you, Peter. Your words meant a lot to me.

Lugenbühl

My son, Joe Luckinbill, has a new CD (above, left) entitled Lugenbühl, that I think is even better than the first and I hope you will check it out. And Simon, my oldest, has turned into this terrific artist and his paintings (two of which are shown above) are for sale as originals, canvas prints and posters. Check him out here.

Finally, as I said before, I love my new website design and how easy it is for all of you to find information on me and my work, download photos and check out what’s being said about it! Hope you enjoy perusing the site and, as always, if you have any suggestions, please pass them along to the webangels at VIA MEDIA!

Blessings, everyone!

Besos,

Lucie in the News

  • Lucie Arnaz loves her musical Latin roots

    People don’t always connect the dots to the fact that Lucie Arnaz, who is spending the week at the Rrazz Room starting Tuesday, is legitimately Latina. “I don’t play that side of me very often,” says the daughter of Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, “though I’ve always said that if I didn’t have that side of my family I don’t think I’d have the rhythm or any kind of musical ability at all.”. (Full Article)

  • Lucie Arnaz on Arizona Public Radio with Mark McLemore

    Lucie Arnaz grew up amidst the kind of performing influences that many entertainers dream about. Her mother, Lucille Ball, was a comedy legend, and her father, Desi Arnaz, was a renowned band leader. Lucie grew up enjoying the casual, at home performances of many of her parent's celebrity friends, including Jimmy Durante, Steve Lawrence and Edye Gorme, Burt Bacharach, and Wayne Newton, to name just a few.. (Full Article)

  • The Invisible Theatre announces Lucie Arnaz to receive the 2012 Goldie Klein Guest Artist Award

    Lucie Arnaz will receive The Invisible Theatre's 2012 Goldie Award. This award was established in 1988 as a way to pay tribute to Goldie Klein, mother of IT's artistic director, Susan Claassen. Every year a guest artist at the Invisible Theatre is selected.

    Past recipients have included such illustrious artists as Ann Hampton Callaway, Steve Ross, Rain Pryor, Norma Jean Darden, Jeffrey Haskell, Amanda McBroom and most recently, Lynn Redgrave.

    Ms. Claassen stated, "The selection of Lucie Arnaz for the 2012 Goldie Award is a perfect fit. Her concert is a tribute to her father, Desi Arnaz, and mother, Lucille Ball. This award was set up to pay tribute to my mother. I believe that both of our mothers were wonderful, strong and extraordinary women.”

  • Ionescopade & 10th Annual New York Nightlife Awards

    Hosts Lucie Arnaz and Bill Irwin - their first time working together - displayed some terrific comic chemistry in their casual banter and introductions... (Full Article)

  • Actress, Singer Lucie Arnaz Interviewed by Betty Jo Tucker

    Multi-talented Lucie Arnaz drops by to discuss her diverse career in films, television, live theater and as a recording artist. With Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz for parents, she clearly has showbiz in her blood! (Radio Interview)

  • Photo Coverage: Inside the 2012 Nightlife Awards at Town Hall!

    The 10th Annual Nightlife Awards, a special celebration of the show's decade long run, took place on Monday, January 30th at Town Hall with an all-star cast. Hosted with charm and wit by Lucie Arnaz and Bill Irwin... (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.