Tracey Ullman Readies Best Bits for Broadway
by Broadway Staff • Aug 25, 2004
Tracey Ullman is readying her one-woman show, Tracey's Best Bits, for a Broadway bow during the 2005-2006 season. The show will premiere at Los Angeles' Henry Fonda Music Box Theater, where it will run for 10 performances in February. It will be taped there for an HBO airing in the summer of 2005, according to Variety.
Ullman's Tracey Takes On… was produced by HBO and ran on the cable network from 1996-1999. HBO also produced the special Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales last year. Ullman is best known for her sitcom The Tracey Ullman Show, which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Fox network and won her three Emmy Awards. She first made a splash on the British stage in Four in a Million in 1981, an improvised comedy at the Royal Court Theatre for which she won a London Critics Award. She also appeared in the West End musicals Elvis, Grease and The Rocky Horror Show. In New York, she made her stage debut in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew and also headlined the short-lived The Big Love on Broadway in 1991. Ullman is currently in Vancouver filming the lead role in the upcoming television version of Once Upon a Mattress.
Ullman's Tracey Takes On… was produced by HBO and ran on the cable network from 1996-1999. HBO also produced the special Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales last year. Ullman is best known for her sitcom The Tracey Ullman Show, which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Fox network and won her three Emmy Awards. She first made a splash on the British stage in Four in a Million in 1981, an improvised comedy at the Royal Court Theatre for which she won a London Critics Award. She also appeared in the West End musicals Elvis, Grease and The Rocky Horror Show. In New York, she made her stage debut in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew and also headlined the short-lived The Big Love on Broadway in 1991. Ullman is currently in Vancouver filming the lead role in the upcoming television version of Once Upon a Mattress.
Tracey's Best Bits is expected to mix old and new material. While the 2004-2005 Broadway season is crowded with solo shows, this is the first to be announced for next season.