ANNOUNCED — APHC 50th Tour Show in Burlington, VT April 20th
PRE-SALE November 14th - 17th
FAN PRE-SALE
Tuesday, November 14th at 10:00 a.m. ET to Friday, November 17th at 10:00 a.m. ET
(PASSCODE: PHCFLYNN)
PUBLIC ON-SALE
Friday, November 17th at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Joining Garrison are charming singer-actor Christine DiGiallonardo, dazzling vocalist Heather Masse, the ever-popular Royal Academy of Actors (Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and sound-effects wizard Fred Newman), music director/keyboardist Richard Dworsky, and others to be announced.
THE PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION 50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW is a two-hour performance celebrating the upcoming 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 80. Comedy sketches might include favorites like “Guy Noir, Private Eye,” “The Lives of the Cowboys,” “Duane’s Mom,” or “Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian,” or word or two from the American Duct Tape Council, Coffee, Guy’s Shoes, or the Catchup Advisory Board. And perhaps a commercial for Powdermilk Biscuits on this subject: Cheerfulness Is a Choice. 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).
Driving to Burlington is a rational reason to buy a hybrid car now,I so I’m hoping to come. I’ve been assisting in a 5th poetry workshop, and I saw a sluggish fly…
The fly in fall is a flaccid fellow,
His insides get cold? They turn to jello
Does he know he’s dying?
Does it hurt in there?
Does anyone, anywhere, care?
I do said the cockroach
I do said the flea
I do said the humans with a bright canary.
I don’t said the glaciers, we’ve gone before.
I don’t said the rivers, my banks are sore
I care said the caterpillar crawling on a leaf,
Then he fed a flying flicker’s fearsome dagger of a beak.