The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
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Opened Nov 16, 2000
Closed May 20, 2001
Opened Nov 16, 2000
Closed May 20, 2001
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Acclaimed actress Lily Tomlin returns to Broadway to star in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written and directed by Jane Wagner. The original production opened in 1985 and produced a Best Actress Tony Award for its star. Tomlin comments on popular culture by portraying more than a dozen different characters, including a performance artist, a homeless woman, a disco swinger, a feminist from the 1970s, and more.
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I have this acute feeling of déjà vu every time I walk by the Booth Theatre on West 45th Street. There, big as life, is a marquee that heralds Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. I know this isn't 1985; and yet, inside the Booth, time has stopped. Entertainment-deprived persons can once again revel in the divine Tomlin performing writer/director Jane Wagner's vintage grab bag of feel-good, mushy, vagina-loving, '80s characters, all of them spouting timeless wit and wisdom.
At age 61 (yes, 61!), Lily Tomlin has the agility of a woman half her age. Though The Search for Signs... must be grueling for Tomlin, she performs the piece as if it w[...]