September 2021 Archives

This week's NZ Woman's Day has an interview with Lucy. It covers My Life is Murder and how Lucy wants to "disappear" from the screen and go behind the scenes. This is where she talks more about her "top secret" project. The project (has no name yet) consists of her producing and directing the "it". Lucy will team up with Renee O'Connor and that's about all we know.

Here's what we know:

Lucy is Producing and Directing
It involves Renee O'Connor
Lucy is making this happen in the US
Not a drama

The "Top Secret" Project was first brought up in the NZ Woman's Weekly 20 September 2021 Issue (you can read about it here: NZ Woman's Weekly: Lucy and Renee Planning on Working Together In "Top Secret" Project)

In the NZ Woman's Day 27 September 2021 Issue we get a little more about the "Top Secret" Project and why Lucy wants to do it. She's in the US at the moment for this mysterious project:

"As for Rob, he won't be joining Lucy as she braves the pandemic and heads to Los Angeles to go hell for leather in the direction of her latest dream, a top-secret project she’s producing and directing. "I'm really excited. It's something very new for me - not a drama but very cool. There'll be no room for anything else in my life for a while, so my only other dream for this year is that I manage to get back home and out of MIQ by Christmas."

*MIQ is what the hotel quarantine system NZ has in place for returned travellers and tourists is called.

You can find the full interview in this week's Woman's Day (27 September 2021) issue.

For more information about Lucy's role as Alexa Crowe go to AUSXIP Lucy Lawless My Life is Murder subsite.

?? New Podcast! "Lucy Lawless And Rene O'Connor" on @Spreaker #acorntv #lucylawless #mylifeismurder #reneoconnor #xenawarriorprincess https://t.co/n66nikwIBk

— Sci-Fi Talk Official (@scifitalk) September 1, 2021

NOW AVAILABLE! All admission passes, autographs, photo ops and more are back on sale for the Salute to Xena Convention in Los Angeles on its NEW DATE: November 18-20, 2022 at the same venue, the Hyatt Regency LAX!

Lucy Lawless, Renée O’Connor, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Michael Hurst, Jacqueline Kim, Brittney Powell, Victoria Pratt, Musetta Vander, Paris Jefferson, Alexandra Tydings, Jacqueline Kim and Ted Raimi are confirmed to attend. Check the website as we get more confirmations!

For full convention information, including appearance days and available tickets, please visit the website!

REMINDER: We notified ticketholders for the Xena 2021 Convention, via the email address used at the time of purchase, about the NEW 2022 DATE and that the deadline to request a refund was AUGUST 20, 2021. If you did not request a refund by then, your admission passes and a la carte photo op and autograph purchases were automatically transferred to the new date. You will receive new tickets for the 2022 date as your 2021 tickets will no longer be valid. If you requested a refund, and have not received it yet, please allow up to 8 weeks from the deadline date for your request to be processed. If you have any questions, please contact us at customer.service@creationent.com.

We look forward to seeing our fellow Xenites next year!

Renee has announced, in addition to her directing Disney's Beauty and the Beast in Redondo Beach and San Pedro, she will be on Instagram Live with @encoresouthbay Artistic Producer Daniel Nakawatase.

Tune in on September 24 at noon PST on https://instagram.com/realreneeoconnor

Tickets for Beauty and the Beast are available for all shows at www.EncoreSouthBay.org

Ticket Information

October 1 - 3, 2021: Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center

October 9 & 10, 2021 Warner Grand Theatre / San Pedro

Covid Vaccination Restrictions apply see site for details

encoresouthbay.org/events.html

This is exciting news. Renee was working on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast before Covid upended things and she’s back at the helm to direct the show in the middle of the pandemic. Renee posted the following on her official Instagram account (reposted with Renee’s permission)

From Real Renee O’Connor

I’m delighted to invite you to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, opening in Redondo Beach and then San Pedro. This has been an adventure I will never forget, directing a magical musical during a pandemic!
Join me LIVE to share a few stories of the process on Instagram Live, this Friday, September 24th at Noon PST with @encoresouthbay Artistic Producer Daniel Nakawatase.
Tickets are available for all shows at www.EncoreSouthBay.org

Ticket Information

October 1 - 3, 2021: Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center

October 9 & 10, 2021 Warner Grand Theatre / San Pedro Covid Vaccination Restrictions apply see site for details

encoresouthbay.org/events.html

The NZ Woman's Weekly (September 20, 2021) Issue has a nice article about Lucy and how her boys have grown up up and don't need her anymore. She has more time to branch out to do other things. Buried in the middle of the article is something that will make every Xenite heart flutter.

"Lucy's next adventure will see both her and Renee heading to Los Angeles, where they'll be working on a top ­secret project that Lucy is, for the first time, producing and directing. It's a prospect she is both excited and nervous about, but she is welcoming the challenge because her 50s are a bolder time."

Bring it on and let the guessing begin. The NZ Women's Weekly is on sale now in NZ.

For more information about Lucy's role as Alexa Crowe go to AUSXIP Lucy Lawless My Life is Murder subsite.

My goodness, that was one heck of a ride for 4 days! I'm beyond stoked with the results as is The Starship Foundation and Renee O'Connor / House of Bards Theatre Company. The bidding wars were FIERCE (I love bidding wars, as long as I'm not in them) and I almost fell off my chair (in excitement) at the numbers coming up on screen.

One of my favourite quotes is from Helen Keller:

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

What can you say about this incredible fandom that we don't all know? 26 years of an incredible fandom, 15 years of amazing support for the AUSXIP Charity Auction and the outcome is ABSOFRIGGINLUTELY gobsmackingly jaw dropping. It takes a village.

Hyperbole? Nope...look at the numbers of the total amount raised (does not include donations / rounding up): $24,355.64

Breakdown of the figures:

The Starship Foundation: $15,851.64
The House of Bards Theatre Company: $8504.00

That, my friends, is one hell of a lot of money in 4 days.

and now for Renee's message of support for the Xenaverse, AUSXIP and the auction posted on her Official Real Renee O'Connor instagram account

Thank you Xenaverse for your continued philanthropy. You have been changing lives, including mine, for over 20 years.
Thank you to the organizers from @ausxip, especially Mary D and Anne who have been on the administrative side of this giant undertaking, including collecting and storing donations!
And Xenites, thank you for your response for the House of Bards Theatre Company, which has been sadly dormant, since its premiere production of Macbeth. Our production of Macbeth closed and the pandemic began. This donation is an important step for me to reintroduce what is possible for presenting Shakespeare and classical works to our community.
@houseofbardstheatreco

Thank you again, Mary D and all who bid on the donations. Can’t wait to see who won my Sunflower painting!! ??????
@ausxipmaryd

BATTLE ON!!!

Mary