LUCY is BACK ON BROADWAY!

As a character in the new Broadway musical The Cher Show!

According to The Hollywood Reporter: 

“Among the show’s nuttier moments is an encounter with Lucille Ball, when Cher is concerned about how the American public will react to her separation from Sonny Bono (Jarrod Spector) after he has worked her to exhaustion and shafted her out of a financial stake in their company. "F#*k him,” snarls Lucy, played by Emily Skinner as a brassy vaudevillian ham. Hilariously, she then launches into a big-sisterly take on “Heart of Stone,” all the while chugging on a cigarette. “My hand to God, guys, this conversation actually happened,” [Cher] tells us in one of many wry, fourth wall-breaking asides peppered through the show.“  ~ David Rooney

Lucille Ball and Cher’s mother, Georgia Holt, first met when Holt played one of Jacques Marcel’s fashion models on “I Love Lucy” in “Lucy Gets a Paris Gown” (ILL S5;E20) in 1956. Cher was 9 years old at the time. 

Ten years later, Holt also played a model on “The Lucy Show” in “Lucy and Pat Collins” (TLS S5;E11) in 1966.

On “Here’s Lucy” in 1973, Lucie Arnaz and Frankie Avalon played Sonny and Cher. Preparing, Avalon and Arnaz went to see a taping of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour” in order to get some pointers. Cher loaned Lucie a wig, earrings and a pair of her eyelashes for the episode.

Lucy Carter’s kids, Kim and Craig (Lucie and Desi Arnaz Jr.) were referred to as “Sonny and Cher” a couple of times on “Here’s Lucy.” 

In 1979, Lucille Ball played a mystical charwoman in Cher’s TV special “Cher…and other Fantasies” alongside Elliott Gould and Shelley Winters. 

Coincidentally, The Cher Show is playing at The Neil Simon Theatre, formerly the Alvin, where Lucille Ball did her one and only Broadway musical, Wildcat, in 1960. 

Emily Skinner as both Georgia Holt and Lucille Ball in “The Cher Show”.