Lily Tomlin joins the ranks of celebrity producers

(AP) — Lily Tomlin is going off-Broadway — as a producer.

Tomlin and her longtime collaborator, Jane Wagner, will join the producing team presenting Leslie Jordan's one-man show "My Trip Down the Pink Carpet." It will open April 19 at the Midtown Theater.

On Monday, Tomlin says of Jordan: "I have seldom spent time working with anyone who so engaged me." Jordan is best known for his portrayal of Beverley Leslie on television's "Will & Grace."

Tomlin and Wagner are joining the ranks of celebrity stage producers in New York. Elton John and his partner, David Furnish, are backing the play "Next Fall," opening on Broadway next month. And rap superstar Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are involved in the current Broadway musical hit "Fela!"