TWO NEW 50th Anniversary tour shows announced
New York City and Manhattan, KS
THE PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION 50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW is a two-hour-plus 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.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
8:00PM
The Town Hall, New York City
A Prairie Home Companion's 50th Anniversary Tour with Garrison Keillor.
Guests: ELLE DEHN, HEATHER MASSE, VINCE GIORDANO and the NIGHTHAWKS, RICHARD DWORSKY, SUE SCOTT, TIM RUSSELL, and FRED NEWMAN.
BUY TICKETS (Presale available beginning 10:00 a.m. ET on July 26 — PHC50 password)
Vocalist extraordinaire Heather Masse and stellar soprano Ellie Dehn will be on hand, along with the Royal Academy of Actors (Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and sound-effects wizard Fred Newman), music director Richard Dworsky at the piano, and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks with their irresistible vintage jazz. Count on songs, jokes, the one-of-a-kind audience sing-along intermission, and of course, the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Saturday, January 13, 2024
7:30PM
McCain Auditorium at Kansas State University
A Prairie Home Companion's 50th Anniversary Tour
with Garrison Keillor.
Guests include RICHARD DWORSKY and the band, SUE SCOTT, TIM RUSSELL, and FRED NEWMAN.
$45 – $95 BUY TICKETS
The Royal Academy of Actors (Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and sound-effects wizard Fred Newman) will be there, along with music director/keyboardist Richard Dworsky leading the band. Additional guests yet to be announced. Expect 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).
A Zoom option for this 50th Anniversary would be kind for those of us on the West Coast who are not going to be "travel-able."
Hope this show is recorded and made public.