Thursday, April 7, and Friday, April 8, 2022 Doors 6 p.m. // Showtime 7:30 p.m. A $25 food and beverage minimum will be required for all patrons. For tickets, visit feinsteinshc.com.
presents
Lucie Arnaz ‘I Got the Job!’: Songs From My Musical Past With Award-Winning Composer and Musical Director Ron Abel Writer // Janelle Morrison • Photography // Michael Childers
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or 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 at 54 Below, Birdland Jazz and the Café Carlyle in New York, and now Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael in Carmel, Indiana. Lucie began her career on television at 12 years of age, in a recurring role on “The Lucy Show,” starring her mother, Lucille Ball. 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 Arnaz and her husband of 40 years, Laurence Luckinbill, formed Arluck Entertainment, and their personal and professional collaboration has produced all of her concert work and his four one-man shows. Both have been the recipient of an Emmy Award for their television documentary “Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie.” Lucie is the proud mother of three and the elated grandmother of three with Luckinbill and stepmother to his two sons. It is these credits of which Lucie is most proud. Along with Ron Abel, the multiaward-winning composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and musical director, this show is one you won’t want to miss!
JANELLE MORRISON: We are honored to have you grace the stage at Feinstein’s at Hotel Carmichael! LUCIE ARNAZ: Thank you! I got a chance to play at the very first Feinstein’s at the [Loews] Regency years ago. They’re just the classiest clubs. There aren’t many really proper supper clubs around the country anymore. They’re disappearing, and as fast as they’re disappearing, Michael [Feinstein] seems to be finding new places to create them. I just love playing them, and now I have a little mini tour [of Feinstein’s] to go to. It makes me feel great to be invited to all of them because you never get to play anywhere nicer. I’ve actually played at the bigger stage at the Palladium there in Carmel where Michael keeps all the wonderful archives. And that was wonderful. I did my Latin Roots [concert] there several years ago. JM: How great does it feel to be back out
there touring and performing for live audiences? ARNAZ: After the shutdown, all of the rescheduling and then the re-cancellations and rescheduling of those re-cancellations, it’s going to feel good to get back there, doing what I do creatively, I’m sure. It’s been a very strange feeling for the last two years. I haven’t had that empty of a calendar since I was 15 … and I’m not 15 now. [Laughing] There had always been an acting job, a singing job or something that I’ve been involved with. It wasn’t until 8 or 9 months into [the pandemic] that my body went into like a withdrawal from not focusing on what I do creatively.
JM: The world has been pretty miserable
throughout this pandemic, and it’s been incredibly miserable for creatives not being able to create like we have prepandemic. It has also taken a huge toll on humanity, I think, not being in community with one another. I would love your observation on this. ARNAZ: I think you’re absolutely right. If you look back at the last time there was a pandemic, I don’t know what kind of entertainment they were losing out on at that time, but there wasn’t half of what we have now. Thank God for the internet. If you couldn’t even connect to the internet, you were really quarantined and alone. I don’t think we’ve had
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