Howard Levy

with Garrison Keillor with Guests including HEATHER MASSE, RICHARD DWORSKY with HOWARD LEVY, CHRIS SIEBOLD, LARRY KOHUT, and our Radio Actors, SUE SCOTT, TIM RUSSELL & FRED NEWMAN. 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). GARRISON KEILLOR is America’s favorite storyteller. For more than forty years, as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he captivated millions of listeners with his weekly News from Lake Wobegon monologues. He is an essayist, columnist, Substack blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks. And he is the author of more than two dozen books, including Lake Wobegon Days, That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life, Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel, Serenity at 70, Gaiety at 80: Why you should keep on getting older and Cheerfulness (2023).