Tony Award-winning actress Lily Tomlin has remained in the spotlight for her "Evenings with Lily Tomlin" specials, as she travels around the coast yearly.  Recently, though, the stage and screen actress has garnered attention for a new kind of work – production. Tomlin and her longtime partner Jane Wagner join a long list of A-list actors to provide funds to on-the-rise plays (either on Broadway or otherwise) to help raise their profits.

Elton John and his partner David Furnish were notorious for investing six figures into the Broadway show Next Fall, a performance he had yet to see, while Will and Jada Pinkett Smith put $3 million into the Broadway show Fela! with their investors. Now, Tomlin and Wagner are investing in the one-man performance written and starring Leslie Jordan called My Trip down the Pink Carpet. If you want to see more than just Tomlin's production sense, check out http://www.stubhub.com/, where Lily Tomlin tickets are available.

Unlike other plays, Jordan is already a mainstream figure – he performed as the Republican homosexual "frenemy" to Karen on NBC's Will and Grace for several years, earning him an Emmy Award for guest star in 2006. The new show, which is based off Jordan's memoir of the same name, premieres mid-April at Midtown Theater. Likewise, Tomlin and Wagner's own professional and personal relationship will get My Trip down the Pink Carpet attention as the two have seen such success together before, when they worked together on Tomlin's one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.

Wagner wasn't just playing the role of producer during the Broadway show, as she also wrote and directed the Tony Award-winning piece, which earned star Tomlin a golden statue in 1986 for Best Actress.

More recently, the actress is perhaps best-known for performing on Broadway in 9 to 5 The Musical (among others) and was also seen opposite Glen Close on the riveting small screen drama Damages. Performing the "lioness" Marilyn in the show and claiming that she is "an avid fan," she couldn't be more excited to tear apart her character's next moves.

"I think any actor would just be on the show because the writing is so good and the actors are so good, and the show is just fun exciting," she said to the Los Angeles Times. "You're excited to go to work and do it."

Originally finding a foundation in Hollywood thanks to her knack for jokes, Tomlin has been in the business for over four decades and has been seen on every sort of medium imaginable – from the silver screen to the small, Broadway's stage to comedy stages and more. And success has come with additional praise, in two Tony Awards, two Peabody's, six Emmys, a Grammy, a Drama Desk, an Outer Critics Circle Award and Mark Twain for American humor. Additionally, the Detroit native has graced the cover of Time, People, American Film and The Advocate. She has done it all and continues to impress even in her 71st year.

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