D’Arcy’s world unfurls on the cabaret stage with savvy songs and clever patter. “I like smart lyrics that speak to experience and evoke emotion,” she says.

Coming to New York after attending Carnegie Mellon and performing at McCarter Theater in Princeton and the Stratford Festival in Connecticut, D’Arcy displayed remarkable talent in selling women's fashions, enabling her to meld two careers into a multi-faceted gem of a life.     She is currently the vice president for sales and marketing at New York’s women’s apparel manufacturer Elliott Lauren.

D'Arcy likens the best of  theater to the best of fashion. “The opportunity to entertain people," she says. “Plus, I love throwing a party.”     “Seriously,” she says, “the business of fashion is like opening a show. When you open a line,  you have to show it to hundreds of customers. And, you have to do it three times a year.

"So, you have to have a sense of the theatrical, a sense of the dramatic, and a sense of humor. Selling something to someone is like a mini-play. That's why I’m comfortable on stage. Instead of hangers, I have words and music."    Lyrics and melodies, to be sure. Plus, a wealth of life’s experiences and a commitment to training and working hard regardless of the odds.

For more than ten years – ever since recognizing that her passion for singing was unquenchable  –  D'Arcy has been preparing for her present stage success. She resumed studying with a vocal coach and soon thereafter began performing.

In 2000, came the chance to work with two people who would become central to her success, director Lina Koutrakos, and musical director, Rick Jensen.

D'Arcy tasted her first success in 2003, when her original show "Gypsy In My Soul" opened off-Broadway for  sell-out performances at Don't Tell Mama.

In 2004, she was accepted by Yale University's prestigious Cabaret Conference. There, along with some thirty singers selected from across the country and around the world, she was immersed in work with such renowned directors and vocal coaches as Laurel Masse, Jason Graae, Erv Raible and Tex Arnold.

“Everything from presentation to publicity to costuming,” she said. “It was like getting an advanced degree in ten days." With sold out shows and critical acclaim, life has come full circle for the girl from the Pittsburgh suburbs who dreamed of going on the stage one day. 

“Who would have thought,” she muses, “that the professional skills from my business career would actually make that teenager’s dream come true.”    "To perform in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago for the rest of my life would be pretty fabulous," she says.

That, and indulging one other passion – shoes. Her world-class collection boasts six hundred pairs. 

“I’m just a girl who cain’t say no” to Christian Louboutin and Manolo Blahnik she belts out in a self-deprecating parody of the Oklahoma classic written especially for her by Karl Hampe. A show-stopper, that’s become her personal signature.