Lucie Arnaz

Join Lucie Arnaz for an exclusive Q&A after the show! Stay for an engaging conversation where she’ll share behind-the-scenes stories and answer your questions about her remarkable career and experiences. This intimate talkback is the perfect way to conclude an unforgettable evening with this multi-talented star.

For nearly three decades, LUCIE ARNAZ has toured her critically acclaimed nightclub acts throughout the United States and Europe, making stops in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno, Miami, Feinstein’s at the Regency and @54 Below, Birdland Jazz and the Café Carlyle in New York to name a few. She has performed the opening number on The Academy Awards and at the White House. CDs include Just in Time (Concord Jazz), Latin Roots (LML Music) and Lucie: LIVE! At Feinstein’s at The Nkko.

Lucie began her career on television at 12 in a recurring role on The Lucy Show, starring her mother, Lucille Ball. At 15, she became a series regular on Here’s Lucy. In 1985 she starred in her own series, The Lucie Arnaz Show, and in 1989 in the critically acclaimed Sons and Daughters, all on CBS.

On film, Lucie co-starred in The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Olivier, in several made-for-television movies including Who Killed the Black Dahlia, Washington Mistress, The Mating Season, Who Gets the Friends? with Jill Clayburgh, and Down to You with Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Henry Winkler.

Lucie’s heart has always been in the live performance arena, and she has been the recipient of a number of theatrical awards including The Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award, Outer Critic’s Circle Award, Theater World Award, and Chicago’s famed Sarah Siddons Award for creating the roles of Kathy in the west-coast premiere of Vanities at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Annie Oakley in the Jones Beach production of Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun, for her Broadway debut as Sonia Wolsk in Neil Simon and Marvin Hamlisch’s They’re Playing My Song, in national tours of Seesaw (directed by Michael Bennett), Social Security (directed by Mike Nichols), opposite her husband, actor/writer Laurence Luckinbill in Whose Life is it Anyway? and opposite Tommy Tune in My One and Only. In 2014, Lucie was named broadway.com’s DC’s Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her work as Berthe, the trapeze hanging, daredevil grandma in the First National Company of Pippin.

Lucie received rave reviews for her portrayals of Bella in Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Lost in Yonkers, Maria Callas in Terrance McNally’s Tony Award-winning, Master Class, and as Ruth in the pre-Broadway revival of Wonderful Town. Ms. Arnaz made her UK debut as Alexandra in the Cameron Mackintosh musical, The Witches of Eastwick, and then returned to Broadway in 2006 as Muriel in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and in Pippin (2014). On February 11, 2019, Lucie recreated the role of Sonia Wolsk alongside her original co-star, Robert Klein, for a one night only 40^th Anniversary reunion production of their acclaimed Broadway smash hit, They’re Playing Our Song to a standing room only audience at The Music Box Theater in New York City.

Lucie Arnaz and Laurence Luckinbill formed Arluck Entertainment, and their personal and professional collaboration has produced all of her concert work, his four one-man shows, been the recipient of an Emmy Award for their television documentary, Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie, five beautiful children and three glorious grandchildren.

Ron Abel, the multi-award winning composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and musical director whose vast client list ranges from multi-million selling pop diva Taylor Dayne to opera diva and Kennedy Center Honoree, Jessye Norman, was most recently seen in a recurring role on the Fran Drescher television series Happily Divorced playing who else but himself.

Ron is currently composing the scores for several new Broadway musicals, ROCKWELL, LIFE ON A PALETTE, a musical tour of the 20th century through the paintings of America’s most beloved artist, (book & lyrics by Eleanor Albano & Anthony Barnao), as well as BRICKTOP, QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, RE-INTRODUCING LAURETTE BISHOP and UNDRESSED with his

long-time writing partner, the celebrated lyricist, Chuck Steffan.

A major sweep of every Los Angeles theatre award was won by Ron for his score of TWIST OF FATE, a musical written with Kleban award winning bookwriter/lyricist Lissa Levin. Recently, Ron, Chuck & Lissa’s collaboration of their new musical HAZEL, A MUSICAL MAID IN AMERICA premiered at Chicago’s Drury Lane Theatre. Ron has arranged, orchestrated and conducted world-wide for artists such as Liza Minnelli, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mandy Gonzales, Lucie Arnaz, Michele Lee, Bryce Pinkham and Shirley Jones, among many others.