'An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin' Plays NJPAC 10/23

Lily Tomlin, one of the best-loved women in America, returns to NJPAC with a collection of her greatest hits in An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin - featuring the Emmy®- and Tony®-winning, Oscar-nominated star with a gallery of her beloved characters - for one night only at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Friday, October 23 at 8 pm. 

One of America's greatest and most enduring comedic talents, Lily Tomlin has triumphed in television, theater, motion pictures, animation and video, winning - over a 40-year career -- two Tonys, a Grammy, two Peabody Awards, six Emmys, the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards, an Oscar nomination, plus the Mark Twain Prize for American humor.

Though she made her TV debut in 1966, it was when she joined the cast of Laugh-In in 1969 that she became a sensation with her characters that include: the irascible prune-faced telephone operator Ernestine; the precocious sandbox philosopher, six year-old Edith Ann, in an oversized rocking chair; aging beauty adviser, Madame Lupe; and the Tasteful Lady, imperious and upper-class, who never fails to puncture her own pretense.

Her one-woman Broadway performance in Jane Wagner's "The Search for Signs of Intelligence Life in the Universe" became a classic. She was made 18 films and was nominated for an Oscar for her debut in Robert Altman's "Nashville. She was recently seen in Steve Martin's "Pink Panther 2."

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), located in the heart of an emerging downtown Newark, New Jersey, is the sixth largest performing arts center in the United States. Home of the Grammy® Award-winning New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, NJPAC has been widely cited as a catalyst in the revitalization of New Jersey's largest city, attracting over 6 million visitors (including more than one million children) in its first twelve years of operation.

Programming has been made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tickets are $42, $52, $64, $72 and $92. Tickets may be purchased by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at www.njpac.org.

NJPAC is a wheelchair accessible facility and provides assistive services such as TTY ticket purchase, designated seating, Sennheiser infrared listening devices and seat cushions.