A Prairie Home Companion: Keep It Clean (3/29/2014)

Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, it's a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, folksinger Willie Watson, soul siblings Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, singer Hilary Thavis, and pianist and clarinetist Butch Thompson. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, musical director Richard Dworsky with Richard Kriehn, Dean Magraw, Gary Raynor and Peter Johnson, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

3rd & 7 37yd

*taking notes for the head honchos*

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:07:01 PM
setting up my rhubarb pie stand !

by busguy5 3/29/2014 11:07:13 PM
I would pay for a streaming subscription in a heartbeat.

by Will Westerfield 3/29/2014 11:07:25 PM
I would pay to view.

by Katy Gregory 3/29/2014 11:07:29 PM
We would sign up as well... great idea

by bella 3/29/2014 11:07:36 PM
who gets to sit on the porch of the house?

by unifex 3/29/2014 11:07:37 PM
Gosh & golly, it seems like there are a lot of folks listening in to the 'Home Companion'

by Kharrin 3/29/2014 11:07:52 PM
A "pay what you want" "pay per view", perhaps? Minimum $1?

by Chak Man Yeung 3/29/2014 11:07:57 PM
This is an excellent experience!

by Oshkosh Greathouse 3/29/2014 11:08:15 PM
Millions, all over the world.

by Getting blips and restarts... 3/29/2014 11:08:37 PM
Maybe some combination of, be able to hear it for nothing, subscribe to support it. I think we are getting into a lot of new ways to support things economically?

by A. Campbell 3/29/2014 11:08:42 PM
Okay I have it on OFFICIAL word, the people on the porch are indeed rush ticket holders. They waited in the cold/rain/snow/sun to get in to the show.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:08:43 PM
JULIA!! Make them turn on the Video...

by Kharrin 3/29/2014 11:08:51 PM
sometimes the late comers in line without tickets get to sit up on porch

by bella 3/29/2014 11:08:53 PM
Still taking notes!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:08:53 PM
My friends know not to call during the show and the puppy knows there will be no walkies for the duration.

by Katy Gregory 3/29/2014 11:08:59 PM
Kharrin, can you refresh your page?

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:09:36 PM
Katy, that cracked us up in the booth here.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:09:48 PM
met Russ Ringsack the truck driver when they were here, what a great guy!! he has been witht hem from the start

by busguy5 3/29/2014 11:10:08 PM
Thank you Julia! I can rest now that I know how to get rush tickets :)

by Kristine 3/29/2014 11:10:11 PM
Aaw, what kind of doggie is that, Katy?

by Chak Man Yeung 3/29/2014 11:10:20 PM
Quick online greeting to my friends who work for The Current and in MPR Membership, who are throwing a big LIVE Radio Free Current party tonight.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:10:30 PM
ooohhh i think im gonna start standing in line for the rush tickets then!

by unifex 3/29/2014 11:10:31 PM
maybe ill get lucky

by unifex 3/29/2014 11:10:35 PM
Go for it unifex!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:10:44 PM
She's a Labrabeagle Terrier, Chak Man

by Katy Gregory 3/29/2014 11:11:29 PM
Tim, here's (the back of) me and what I see here at the show. Photo from the 3/22 experiment, courtesy Preston Wright who is working the video switcher.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:11:53 PM
just an FYI if anyone ever gets a chance to see an evening with GK by all means do it

by bella 3/29/2014 11:11:56 PM
A Labrabeagle Terrier? Sounds mercilessly cute!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:12:33 PM
C'mon Julia, if we want to look at Garrison, can't they get the lighting better.....

by Kharrin 3/29/2014 11:12:53 PM
just sounds like so much fun for after the show

by OldLion 3/29/2014 11:42:15 PM
It seems a little odd to see his back but I really like that he addresses everyone as he walks and shares The News.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:42:18 PM
We have suppers at church on Wednesdays during Lent.

by Tim 3/29/2014 11:42:39 PM
The annual Street Dance is always in September, and that's a good time. With good meatloaf!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:43:03 PM
He's right on with the suppers - people sit next to each other.

by Tim 3/29/2014 11:43:12 PM
MEATLOAF YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!

by busguy5 3/29/2014 11:43:17 PM
you get fed too Julia?

by OldLion 3/29/2014 11:43:26 PM
Any Baltic cruisers online?

by Tom in St. Charles 3/29/2014 11:43:28 PM
I can easily imagine a guy talking and rest my eyes, drive, etc.

by A. Campbell 3/29/2014 11:43:28 PM
"We're all individuals, and we all have this centrifugal force that would fling us into the forest to become hermits and hobos."

by Tom 3/29/2014 11:43:35 PM
Tom, I don't know if they're cooking up a Joke Show. Getting the email newsletter is how I keep up with the planning!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 11:43:50 PM
(Clapping)

by Katy Gregory 3/29/2014 11:44:03 PM
GK's red shoes and our on-stage countdown clock during the monologue http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj7ra6WCEAAAeYS.jpg

by Prairie Home Comp. via twitter 3/29/2014 11:44:14 PM
Never knew until I saw it just now, that he does not read from a script during the News from Lake Woebegon. Makes it all that more special!

by Cheryl from Park City 3/29/2014 11:44:57 PM
LOVE the red
shoes

by OldLion 3/29/2014 11:45:02 PM