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After nearly six years of renovation, the Bay Theater Seal Beach has begun scheduling entertainment with a special appearance by Lucie Arnaz in January of 2025, organized by Los Alamitos resident Blair Petrini.
Petrini is a longtime businesswoman and nonprofit executive in Los Al.
This week, Petrini announced via email that entertainment star Lucie Arnaz will appear at the Bay Theater in January.
“Lucie Arnaz will appear for a special presentation of “Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie,” her ‘93 Emmy-winning documentary about her parents, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy, the sitcom that changed television forever,” said Petrini in the email.
“Following the screening, Lucie will join me on stage for an exclusive Q&A about her life and beyond. If you know me to any degree at all, you know what an insane dream come true this is,”
Petrini said ticket sale proceeds will help fund a film she’s working on in which Lucie will have a cameo appear.
“The proceeds will finish funding for a film I’ve written called Dr. Sam, where the legendary Lucie cameos as the mom,” she said, “and 10% of the funds raised will be given to The New Life Beginnings Shelter for Mothers & Children: an organization near and dear to my heart as my own mother lived there for a short time while pregnant with me.”
“As a Los Al native, it means the world to me to bring this luminary to my hometown,” she said.
Before COVID, Lucie was reported performing in New York and other parts of the country in her own cabaret show entitled “I Got the Job, Songs from My Musical Past.”
According to the email, Arnaz will appear in person Wed., Jan. 29, 2025 at the Bay Theater, 340 Main Street, at 7 p.m. Following the movie, Arnaz will also sit down for a question and answer session with host Raji Ahsan. For info, visit rajiahsan.com/lucie
Paul Dunlap, an entrepreneur who undertook the mission of restoring the former Fox Theater more than five years ago, said in a recent interview with the Event-News Enterprise that he has painstakingly restored it to be as it was decades ago. “And what we did at Bay Theater is different than what it used to be,” said Dunlap.
“It used to be just a film a movie house, but we have designed it so it’s really versatile as an event space. We can do a film performance or corporate events and it’s now really versatile in the ways it can be used,” said Dunlap.
