A Prairie Home Companion's 50th Anniversary

With Garrison Keillor and special guests Heather Masse, Christine Digiallonardo, radio actors Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and 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).