Throughout her extraordinary entertainment career, Tomlin has received numerous awards, including: six Emmys; two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics' Circle Award. In the fall of 2003, she was honored as the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington DC. An accomplished actress on screen and stage, Tomlin made her television debut in 1966 on "The Garry Moore Show." In December 1969, Tomlin joined the cast of the top-rated "Laugh-In" and immediately rose to national prominence with her characterizations of Ernestine, the irascible telephone operator, and Edith Ann, the devilish six year old.
Since her rise to fame, Tomlin has worked exhaustively on stage, television and film. For television, she co-wrote a six television specials with Jane Wagner and has guest starred on numerous television shows since then, such as "Homicide," "X-Files" and "Will and Grace," and she played the boss for two years on the popular CBS series, "Murphy Brown." She is also heard as the voice of the science teacher Ms. Frizzle on the popular children's animated series, "The Magic School Bus," for which she was awarded an Emmy. Most recently she can be found on NBC's "The West Wing."
Tomlin made her Broadway debut in the 1977 play, "Appearing Nitely," written and directed by Jane Wagner. "Appearing Nitely" was later adapted as both an album and an HBO Special. Tomlin next appeared on Broadway in 1985 in a yearlong run of Jane Wagner's critically acclaimed play, "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe." The Broadway success was followed by a coast-to-coast, 14-city tour that spanned four and a half years. Tomlin extended this extraordinary theatrical career with a cross-country, 29-city tour of "The Search," a new production of "The Search on Broadway," a record-breaking, six-month run of the production in San Francisco, and a six-week run in Los Angeles.
On film, Tomlin made her debut as Linnea, a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children in Robert Altman's "Nashville" in 1975, for which her memorable performance was nominated for an Academy Award, and both the New York Film Critics and National Society of Film Critics voted Lily Best Supporting Actress. Her other film credits include "The Late Show," "Moment By Moment," "9 to 5," "The Incredible Shrinking Woman," "All of Me," "Big Business," "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In the Universe," "Shadows and Fog," "The Player," "Blue in the Face," "Flirting With Disaster," "Getting Away with Murder," "Krippendorf's Tribe," "Tea With Mussolini," "The Kid," "I Heart Huckabee's" and "A Prairie Home Companion," among many others.
The wildly popular and hilarious comedienne Lily Tomlin returned for the 2006-2007 season of "The West Wing" and continues to make appearances for stand-up comedy around the nation. The Bottom Line magazine sponsors this evening of laugh-out-loud comedy.
Tickets for An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin on Sunday, March 25 at 3pm & 7pm are on sale now. Ticket prices are $85/65/55/45. -- www.mccallumtheatre.com
Posted March 10th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
