Lucie Arnaz To Join Dirty Rotten Scoundrels One Week Early

Lucie Arnaz will begin performances as wealthy divorcee Muriel Eubanks in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels earlier than expected. She will now start her run on May 23.

Arnaz made her Broadway debut in 1979 in They're Playing Our Song which played at Scoundrels's home, the Imperial Theatre. Her performance in the musical earned her a Theatre World Award. She also appeared on the Great White Way in Lost in Yonkers. Her other theatrical credits include Once Upon A Mattress, Cabaret, Lil' Abner, Bye, Bye Birdie, Vanities, Seesaw, Annie Get Your Gun, Educating Rita, Who's Life is it Anyway?, The Guardsman, My One and Only, Social Security, The Woman Who Laughed, Grace and Glorie, Master Class and the West End premiere of the musical The Witches of Eastwick. Well known as the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, she appeared in the television series Here's Lucy with her mother and headlined her own The Lucie Arnaz Show. Arnaz was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the film The Jazz Singer. Arnaz was able to start rehearsals for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels because her stint in Melinda Lopez' Sonia Flew in Florida was cut short due to financial difficulties at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, which was presenting the play.

Understudy Rachel De Benedet is currently playing Muriel Eubanks, having taken over the role when original star Joanna Gleason departed on April 30. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels also stars Jonathan Pryce, Norbert Leo Butz, Rachel York, Gregory Jbara and Sara Gettelfinger.