To help sway their decision, Ball and Arnaz put together
a vaudeville act featuring his music and her comedy, which
was well received in several cities. "Oh Ricky, you're
wonderful!"Set in New York City, I Love Lucy is centered
around Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), a housewife, her husband
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) who is a singer and bandleader,
and their friends and landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz (William
Frawley and Vivian Vance). Most episodes take place in
the Ricardo's modest brownstone apartment at 623 East
68th Street - which in reality would be in the middle
of the East River - or at the downtown "Tropicana"
nightclub where Ricky is employed, and sometimes elsewhere
in the city. Later episodes took the Ricardos and the
Mertzes to Hollywood for Ricky to shoot a movie, and later
they all accompanied Ricky while he and his band toured
Europe.
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