Lucie Arnaz is returning to the Village for a third time due to audience demand. The longtime entertainer will take the stage at the Performing Arts Center this Saturday, Jan. 28, at 7:30 p.m.

Arnaz will present her touring show “I Got the Job! Songs from My Musical Past,” a collection of songs and music from Broadway, concerts, TV shows and movies in which she appeared or that she produced.

Spicing things up, she’ll share memories of fellow actors, musicians and musical directors. And she’ll include snippets of what it was like to grow up as the daughter of iconic comedian Lucille Ball and her musician/bandleader husband, Desi Arnaz, who got generations moving to a Latin beat.

“This is my most authentic show I have ever done,” Arnaz, 71, said in a recent phone interview. “It is truly about my life – my life in musical theater, the musicals I was in. It’s truly about my professional life, a show starting with the little concerts I gave in my backyard” (as a child).

Though the show is largely made up of musical memorabilia, Arnaz said she does not shape its content to specific audiences, for example, leaning heavily on nostalgia for older folks.

“I don’t tailor material to audiences of any specific age but to smarter ones who get the jokes,” she said, suggesting that an older audience with more life experience might have a higher level of sophistication. “People our age have seen a lot of entertainment. We are a tougher audience, harder to fool.”

Arnaz’s parents inspired her passion for performing.

“Dad inspired me to become a singer; he had that great band with a Latin repertoire,” she said. “I listened to that music and was totally absorbed by it. I tip my hat to his talent.”

Her mother helped bring out the actor in Arnaz.

“We did so many music shows – we both loved musical theater. It was the best training I could have ever gotten —free training,” she recalled. “I got acting, singing, choreography thrown at me; it was fantastic schooling.”

Arnaz joined her mom’s TV shows “I love Lucy” and “Here’s Lucy” when she was a junior at Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. She said she had fun working with her mom even though she describes her as a tough task master.

“My mother was a genius and the hardest worker you can imagine. Everyone loved her because she was tough but also fun. I compare her to a really tough teacher that I would love in school but who would hold me to high standards. My mother could be tough on people who would not pull their weight.”

Arnaz elected to stay on the shows after high school, eschewing college for what she calls “the school of life.”

Her passion for acting kept her away from the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll that dominated the 1960s, when she was coming of age.

“I had no real concerns about school life because I was working,” Arnaz said. “I did not feel I missed much — since age 15 I was running around with adults.

“When I wasn’t on TV, I was trying out in the musical department or building sets. Drama was my life.”

After the “Lucy” shows, Arnaz performed in regional theater; there, she faced the first challenges posed by early fame. Her work with her mother helped get her auditions, but she was held to a higher standard than other performers her age. She recalled being chosen because of her name but then being expected to carry the show.

“It could be nerve-racking to be in your early 20s but not all that experienced yet,” Arnaz said. “When I was cast as Sally Bowles in ‘Cabaret,’ I still would have rather been in the chorus.”

Arnaz has appeared in too many TV productions to mention all here. Among the most notable are her eponymous TV sitcom, in which she played psychologist Jane Lucas, and the TV movie “Who Is the Black Dahlia,” starring as murder victim Elizabeth Short. She also appeared in “Fantasy Island,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.,” “Murder, She Wrote” and “The Dean Martin Show,” among many others.

Arnaz starred in six feature films, the most recognized among them being 1980’s “The Jazz Singer,” with co-stars Neil Diamond and Laurence Olivier. Her role earned her a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor.

“I had such a wonderful time for those 18 months of making the film. I loved every minute,” Arnaz recalled.

While she loved working with Diamond, she had special praise for Olivier, who was dealing with deteriorating health.

“He was one of the kindest and most professional people I could ever work with,” Arnaz said. “He was in pain but was always personable, never blaming anyone and always professional. He was an inspiration to work with.”

Arnaz made her Broadway debut in 1979 in the musical “They’re Playing Our Song.” Other productions include “Seesaw” (with Tommy Tune, who also directed her “Latin Roots” concert series in which she honors her father’s legacy); “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; and Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers.” She also wrote and directed “Babalou,” another tribute to her dad and his orchestra.

With her husband, actor Laurence Luckinbill, Arnaz produced “Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie,” which earned them an Emmy award in 1993.

The two married in 1980 and had three children: Simon, 42, an artist and musician; Joe, 40, a music producer; and Katharine, 38, who earned a music degree but chose the corporate world.

There were also two sons from Luckinbill’s previous marriage: Nick, now 53, a creative director for the Electric Daisy Carnival, and Ben, 47, an artist and screenplay writer.

“They are all smart and talented,” Arnaz said, though she conceded that it was hard to parent five kids and maintain a career. “It’s hard to get parenting right while being a working actor, but the kids are resilient and strong and got through all right.”

Of fame’s effect on the family, she said: “It’s a complicated life; it’s like working and living in a fishbowl.”

Her advice to today’s aspiring actors and performers is to be themselves.

“No one wants a copy of something already familiar. They say they do, but whenever they try to clone success, it fails. Be your own individual self — let your light shine.”

Tickets for the concert are available at the Performing Arts Center box office or online at tickets.lagunawoodsvillage.com.