A Prairie Home Companion at SANTA FE OPERA HOUSE — Pre-sale for newsletter subscribers.
Celebrating 50 years on September 7th
Now this is a place to visit! Join us in Santa Fe as we bring a full A Prairie Home Companion performance to the world-renowned Santa Fe Opera House.
The Santa Fe Opera’s site is like no other. Early on, TIME magazine called the complex “one of the handsomest operatic settings in the Western Hemisphere.” To The New Yorker, it is a “miracle in the desert.” More recently, The Washington Post dubbed it a “shining white cloud in the red hills.” And the Philadelphia Inquirer has lauded it as “one of the most beloved venues in the country.” With recent major renovations now completed, such tributes carry even more power.
The Santa Fe Opera House
Sunday, September 7
7:00 p.m. (Gates 6:00 p.m.)
PRE-SALE TICKETS available May 7, 10:00 a.m. MDT (CODE: PHCSANTAFE)
GENERAL SALE available May 9, 10:00 a.m. MDT
A Prairie Home Companion's 50th Anniversary with Garrison Keillor
Special Guests HEATHER MASSE, CHRISTINE DIGIALLONARDO, our Radio actors, SUE SCOTT, TIM RUSSELL & FRED NEWMAN, and RICHARD DWORSKY, RICHARD KRIEHN, CHRIS SIEBOLD and LARRY KOHUT.
THE PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION 50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW is a two-hour performance celebrating the half-century milestone of Garrison Keillor’s one-of-a-kind radio broadcast, which first hit the airways in July of 1974.
Expect a look back at the show’s origins in Minnesota and a sampling of Keillor’s droll stand-up on the beauty of being 83. Comedy sketches might include favorites like “The Lives of the Cowboys,” “Duane’s Mom,” or a word or two from the American Duct Tape Council, Powdermilk Biscuits, or the Catchup Advisory Board. The Royal Academy of Actors (with sound-effects wizard Fred Newman) will be there, along with music director/keyboardist Richard Dworsky leading the band. Count on songs, jokes, the grand audience sing-along intermission, and of course, the latest News from Lake Wobegon (where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average).
The only time I’ve been to Santa Fe was 55 years ago. I was a 17 year old cowboy working on a ranch in southern Colorado. A friend drove us in his VW bug to Fiesta—a magical party in a wonderful city. Wells
Will this be broadcast on NPR?