Lucie Arnaz has been officially announced to succeed Joanna Gleason in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Imperial Theatre beginning Tuesday, May 29th.
Arnaz will return to the Imperial, where she made her Broadway debut in the 1979 musical
They're Playing Our Song. The performer, who will make her first Broadway appearance in nearly 15 years, will star as the wealthy divorcee 'Muriel Eubanks' of Omaha, Nebraska, in the Jeffrey Lane / David Yazbek hit.
On her website, Arnaz announced, "
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is my favorite musical of last season. I couldn't be happier to be filling Joanna Gleason's Ferragamos."
Arnaz received the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Neil Simon/Marvin Hamlisch/Carole Bayer Sager musical,
They're Playing Our Song. She returned to Broadway 13 years later to star in Simon's Pulitzer Prize/Tony Award-winning play
Lost in Yonkers. She starred opposite Tommy Tune in the national tour of
My One and Only, and in the national tours of
Whose Life Is It Anyway?, and
Social Security. She also appeared in the West End premiere of the musical
The Witches of Eastwick. Film and TV credits include
Down to You, The Jazz Singer, "Here's Lucy" and "The Lucie Arnaz Show."
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opened on Broadway on March 3, 2005. The show won the 2005 Drama League Award as Best Musical, and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards. With a book by Jeffrey Lane and music and lyrics by David Yazbek (
The Full Monty), the show stars Jonathan Pryce, Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz, Rachel York, Gregory Jbara and Mylinda Hull. The production is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell. The musical is based on the 1988 MGM film.
The original cast recording is available on Ghostlight Records.
To learn more about Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, visit www.dirtyrottenscoundrelsthemusical.com. For more on Arnaz, visit www.luciearnaz.com.
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