An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin

Date: 19 Feb 2010 to 19 Feb 2010 Time: 8 p.m. Location: Tennessee Theatre

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, 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 as well as 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 No and the second for narrating and executive producing the HBO film, The Celluloid Closet.  Lily’s entire career in art, text, photos and videos can be found at http://www.lilytomlin.com. For this evening performance Tomlin reprises some of the classic characters and routines that have made her such a beloved figure in comedy.

http://www.tennesseetheatre.com/event/553333/lexus-of-knoxville-legendary-performances-featuring-an-evening-of-classic-lily-tomlin/

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