An icon of American television lives on in the form of Suzanne LaRusch in An Evening with Lucille Ball: Thank You for Asking, which opens tonight and remains onstage at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts for the next two weeks. Directed by Ball’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz, the one-woman show allows LaRusch’s Lucy to share stories about classic sketches from I Love Lucy and her relationship with costar/husband Desi Arnaz.  For those too young to appreciate Ball’s impact on popular culture, she was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Important People of the Century” and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors.

This article appears in Dec 30, 2009 – Jan 5, 2010.