BBBay Presents AN EVENING WITH LUCIE ARNAZ Benefit Concert

BROADAWAY BY THE BAY (BBBay), the Peninsula's premiere musical theatre company, is proud to present "An Evening with Lucie Arnaz," a benefit concert for Broadway By the Bay, on Sunday, March 22, 2009 at Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City. Tickets range in price from $150 - $200 and are on-sale now at the Broadway By the Bay box office (600 N. Delaware Ave., San Mateo), by phone at 650-579-5565 or online at broadwaybythebay.org.

"We are honored and thrilled that Ms. Arnaz will be lending her support to raise funds for the many programs offered by Broadway By the Bay," said Executive Director Jim Gardia.

The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. with a pre-dinner cocktail party followed by a lavish dinner at 6:30 p.m. At 7:30 p.m., Lucie Arnaz will perform a concert of some of her most powerful pieces from her critically acclaimed cabaret act.

Lucie Arnaz began her long career in a recurring role on television on "The Lucy Show," opposite her mother, Lucille Ball. At age fifteen, she became a series regular on "Here's Lucy," a show which ran for six seasons. She starred in her own series, "The Lucie Arnaz Show" and later in the critically acclaimed "Sons & Daughters" on CBS. 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. 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 writer/director Alyssa Bennett entitled, The Pack set to debut at Sundance this fall. Most recently Lucie spent several months on Broadway co-starring with Jonathan Pryce, Norbert Leo Butz, Rachel York and Gregory Jbara, and then Keith Carradine, Brian d'Arcy James, Sherie Rene Scott and Richard Kind, in the rib tickling musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Tickets for "An Evening with Lucie Arnaz" range in price from $150 - $200 and are on-sale now at the Broadway By the Bay box office (600 N. Delaware Ave., San Mateo), by phone at 650-579-5565 or online at broadwaybythebay.org.

Broadway By the Bay, the largest theatre company on the Peninsula, has won numerous awards, including over 40 Theatre Critics Circle Awards, and has garnered acclaim throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as a destination for professional-quality musical theatre. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Brooke Knight and Executive Director Jim Gardia, Broadway By the Bay produces three full-scale musicals and one intimate composer/lyricist series each season, presented to over 40,000 audience members at the 1,600 seat San Mateo Performing Arts Center.

Lauded for its efforts in education, the Youth Theatre Conservatory - for ages 4-17 - gives younger students solid foundations in acting, singing, and dancing for the musical theatre. For those 18 and over, the Musical Theatre Conservatory offers professional classes to adults of all ages. Students aspiring to achieve a professional level of performance skills are taught by instructors who have excelled in their specialties. Musical Theatre Conservatory's intensive summer program is offered in conjunction with Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont.