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Lily Tomlin: Jane Wagner
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In 1977, Lily Tomlin made her Broadway debut in "Appearing Nitley," written and directed by Jane Wagner. Tomlin won her first Tony Award for "Appearing Nitely," the play that has become the hallmark of the Tomlin/Wagner collaboration.
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If “survival of the wittiest” had prevailed instead, indeed Lily Tomlin and her collaborator of over thirty years, Jane Wagner, would count among the earth-dwelling evolved. The stage shows, comedy albums, and T.V. specials the two have co-crafted together are witty in the best sense of the word—that brand of funny that can’t help but ... make you think.
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LILY TOMLIN last appeared on Broadway in the original production of Jane Wagner's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, winning the coveted Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play. She made her Broadway debut in Appearing Nitely and was awarded a Special Tony Award for that performance. Ms. Tomlin has starred in numerous films, including Nashville, for which she received an Oscar nomination; 9 to 5; The Incredible Shrinking Woman; All of Me; Flirting with Disaster; Krippendorf's Tribe; Tea with Mussolini, co-starring with Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Cher in the Franco Zeffirelli film; and, most recently, in The Kid with Bruce Willis. She appeared as the boss of the fictional news show FYI on the last two seasons of the hit CBS series, Murphy Brown, and received an Emmy nomination for her critically acclaimed appearance on the NBC drama, Homicide. She ... guest starred on the popular series X-Files and continues to be the voice of the science teacher Ms. Frizzle on the popular children's animated series, The Magic School Bus, for which she was awarded her sixth Emmy Award. She won a Grammy Award for her comedy album, This Is a Recording, and two Peabody Awards, the first for the ABC television special, Edith Ann's Christmas: Just Say Noel and a second Peabody for narrating and co executive producing the HBO telefilm, The Celluloid Closet.
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Lily Tomlin, one of America’s foremost comediennes, continues to venture across an ever-widening range of media, starring in television, theater, motion pictures, animation, and video. Throughout her extraordinary entertainment career, Tomlin has received numerous awards, including six Emmys, a Tony for her one woman Broadway show, “Appearing Nitely,” a second Tony as Best Actress, a Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics’ Circle Award for her one woman performance in Jane Wagner’s “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” a CableAce Award for Executive Producing the film adaptation of “The Search,” a Grammy for her comedy album, “This is a Recording,” nominations for her subsequent albums “Modern Scream,” “And That’s the Truth” and “On Stage,” and two Peabody Awards — the first for the ABC television special “Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noel” and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, “The Celluloid Closet.”
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Tomlin made her Broadway debut in the 1977 play Appearing Nitely, written and directed by Jane Wagner. Appearing Nitely included such favorites as Ernestine, Edith Ann and Judith Beasley, the Calumet City housewife, and ... introduced Trudy the bag lady, Crystal the hang-gliding quadriplegic, Rick the singles bar cruiser, Glenna as a child of the sixties, and Sister Boogie Woman, a 77-year-old blues revivalist. Appearing Nitely was later adapted as both an album and an HBO Special. Tomlin next appeared on Broadway in 1985 in a year-long, SRO 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.
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In 1977, Tomlin and Wagner collaborated on a Broadway show entitled “Appearing Nitely,†which Wagner wrote and directed in 1977. The show netted Tomlin a Special Award prize at the 1977 Tonys. Tomlin ... appeared alongside host Steve Martin on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live†(1975- ), on which she had previously served as host in its first season. She and Wagner then pulled in actor John Travolta for Wagner’s romantic drama “Moment by Moment†(1978), which bombed famously. With Tomlin’s fame on the rise, she continued to take on more movie roles. Her second signature film, “9 to 5†(1980) saw her playing Violet, one of three frustrated corporate women who kidnap their misogynist boss, followed by the 1981 comedy “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.â€
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