Caruso's Cast Party Hosts Lucie Arnaz on 7/16, 17

 Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com have announced LUCIE ARNAZ: "LULU'S BACK IN TOWN" on July 16th/17th at 7pm and July 18th/19th at 8:30pm and 11:00pm, as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

LUCIE ARNAZ along with her musical director/arranger of 20 years, Ron Abel, make their magnificent return to Broadway at Birdland with very special guests ARNAZ's daughter KATHARINE LUCKINBILL and son Joe Luckinbill.

For four decades showbiz royalty LUCIE ARNAZ has captivated audiences with her triumphant performances on both stage and in film. LUCIE got her equity card playing many of the best women's roles in the theatre including Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Daisy Mae in L'il Abner (her first time opposite Dirk Benedict), Princess Winifred, opposite Kaye Medford, Rudy Vallee, Christine Andreas and Don Amendolia in Once Upon a Mattress, Goodbye Charlie, A Place to Stay, opposite John Ritter.  She recently starred in WItches of Eastwick in London and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway.

LUCIE spent a summer at The Jones Beach Theatre in New York, playing Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, with Harve Presnell. During that summer, Broadway beckoned and she auditioned for and snagged the coveted role of the unforgettably wacky, Sonia Wolsk, in the Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch/Carole Bayer Sager musical They're Playing Our Song, directed by Robert Moore for which she received The Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle, Theatre World and Outer Critic's Circle Awards.

On the big screen, LUCIE has starred opposite Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), opposite Tom Laughlin in Billy Jack Goes to Washington, alongside Ken Howard in Second Thoughts, and opposite Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Henry Winkler in Down to You, a Miramax film. Most recently LUCIE costarred with Richard Roundtree, Robert Loggia and Bob Forster in Wild Seven and in a controversial new film about second hand smoke from write r/director Alyssa Bennett entitled, The Pack that debuted at Sundance this fall.

Broadway at Birdland is being performed at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th & 9th Aves), New York City. Tickets are $35.00 + $10.00 Food/Drink Minimum (Per Person). VIP Orchestra seats are available for $50. Tickets can be purchased Online: www.BIRDLANDJAZZ.com.

Created by acclaimed performer, writer, producer & presenter Jim Caruso, BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND is a weekly concert series on Sunday and Monday evenings, showcasing legendary Broadway performers and composers, as well as up-and-coming musical theater talents. Started as a companion piece to the hugely popular and hilarious weekly impromptu variety show Jim Caruso's Cast Party (which follows Mondays at 9:30pm). BROADWAY AT BIRDLAND has recently hosted such diverse performers as Jason Robert Brown, Lucie Arnaz, Christine Ebersole with Billy Stritch, and Melissa Errico – as well as the benefit concert Chita Rivera LOVES BROADWAY CARES, which sold out two shows in record time.

Photo by Peter James Zielinski