A Prairie Home Companion
Genre | Comedy–music variety |
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Running time | 2 hours |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | Minnesota Public Radio |
Syndicates | American Public Media |
Starring | Garrison Keillor (1974–1987, 1992–2016) Sue Scott Tim Russell Fred Newman |
Produced by | Garrison Keillor |
Original release | July 6, 1974 – September 2, 2016 |
Opening theme | Tishomingo Blues |
Website | prairiehome |
A Prairie Home Companion is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016. In 2016, musician Chris Thile took over as host, and the successor show was eventually renamed Live from Here and ran until 2020. A Prairie Home Companion aired on Saturdays from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota; it was also frequently heard on tours to New York City and other U.S. cities. The show is known for its musical guests, especially folk and traditional musicians, tongue-in-cheek radio drama, and relaxed humor. Keillor's wry storytelling segment, "News from Lake Wobegon," was the show's best-known feature during his long tenure.
Distributed by
, written by and featuring Keillor.History
Origin
The Saturday-evening show was a partial spin-off of A Prairie Home Morning Show with Keillor and Tom Keith, which ran from 6 to 9 a.m. on Minnesota Public Radio and was continued by Keith and Dale Connelly for many years as The Morning Show.
After researching the Grand Ole Opry for an article, Keillor became interested in doing a variety show on the radio. On July 6, 1974, the first live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion took place on Minnesota Public Radio. That show was broadcast from St. Paul in the Janet Wallace Auditorium of Macalester College. Twelve audience members turned out, mostly children.[3] The second episode featured the first performance on the show by Butch Thompson, who became house pianist. Thompson stayed with the program until 1986 and frequently performed on the show until its 2016 conclusion.
In 1978, the show moved into the World Theater in St. Paul, which Minnesota Public Radio purchased and renovated in 1986 and renamed the Fitzgerald Theater in 1994. This is the same venue the program used to the end.
A Prairie Home Companion began national distribution in May 1980.
Hiatus
The show went off the air in 1987, with a "final performance" on June 13, and Keillor married and spent some time abroad during the following two years. For a brief time, the show was replaced—both on the air and in the World Theater—by Good Evening, hosted by Noah Adams, a live variety show designed by ex-Prairie Home and All Things Considered staffers to retain the audience Keillor had cultivated over the years. However, many stations opted instead to continue APHC repeats in its traditional Saturday time slot.[6]
In 1989, Keillor returned to radio with The American Radio Company of the Air (renamed Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company in its second season), broadcast originally from the
Return to broadcast
The following year, on October 2, 1993, the program officially reverted to the A Prairie Home Companion name and format.[7]
The show was originally distributed nationally by Minnesota Public Radio in association with Public Radio International. Later, its distributor was Minnesota Public Radio's distribution unit, American Public Media.[8]
Guest hosts
Singer Sara Watkins of San Diego, California, hosted the January 15, 2011, broadcast. The format was the same, but Keillor appeared only as a guest actor and to deliver the "News from Lake Wobegon". He claimed he had taken the chance to see the show being performed for himself. It was reported that this could be the beginning of a trend toward Keillor's eventual retirement,[9] and on March 16, 2011, Keillor stated in an interview with the AARP that he would most likely retire from the show by the time he turned 70 in August 2012.[10]
In September 2011, Keillor told The Tuscaloosa News that his last broadcast would be recorded in "early July 2013", and that instead of a permanent replacement host, there would be "a whole group of people. A rotation of hosts",[11] but in December 2011 Keillor said he had changed his mind and reconsidered his plans to retire because he still enjoyed hosting the show.[citation needed]
On February 7 and 14, 2015, mandolinist Chris Thile hosted the show (like Sara Watkins, a member of Nickel Creek). As when Watkins hosted, the format remained largely unchanged, but Keillor did not make an appearance. Instead, storyteller Tristan Jimerson appeared on the February 7 show and comedienne/storyteller Elna Baker on the February 14 show. Thile's band Punch Brothers performed on the February 7 show.[12] Thile was named permanent host of the show in late June 2015, and took over as permanent host on October 15, 2016.[13][14]
Keillor's departure
When Keillor formally announced his departure from APHC at the show's airing on July 21, 2015, he indicated that Thile would succeed him as permanent host in 2016.
Barack Obama recorded a telephone call into the show, which ran on the Saturday broadcast,[16] and Keillor performed his last "Lives of the Cowboys" sketch as regular host,[16] with regulars Scott, Russell, and Newman, and including a series of duets with the guests Masse, O'Donovan, Jarosz, DiGiallonardo, and Watkins.[19]
While the July 2 Hollywood Bowl performance was the last regular episode of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor also hosted a final live performance titled "The Minnesota Show" at the Minnesota State Fair on September 2, 2016, including the last-ever "Guy Noir" and "News from Lake Wobegon" segments.[20]
Since his departure from the radio show, Keillor has continued to tour with his stage show also called A Prairie Home Companion.[21][22]
Name change
On November 29, 2017, Minnesota Public Radio terminated its contract with Keillor because of "allegations of his inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with him."[23][24][25] Because Keillor still owned artistic rights and the trademark to the show's name, MPR also announced that it would change the name.[26] After two episodes under the placeholder name The Show with Chris Thile, the new title was announced as Live from Here live on the December 16, 2017, broadcast of the show.[27] MPR also announced it would cease distributing reruns of A Prairie Home Companion featuring Keillor.[28] Keillor stated he had been "fired" from MPR, but he had technically not been employed by MPR/APM since 2002, working instead as an independent contractor.[29] When it was announced in 2019 that Live from Here was going to be based in and broadcast out of New York City, many Minnesotan fans publicly complained that the radio show was losing its Midwestern style.[30] Live from Here was canceled in 2020.[31]
Broadcast archives
On April 13, 2018, Minnesota Public Radio posted a message stating its intent to reinstate the free online archives of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac.[32] The portion of the PrairieHome.org website containing the archives was restored later in the year.
Format
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From the show's inception until 1987, its theme song was
Music was a main feature of the program; the show was a significant outlet for
Greetings from members of the audience to friends and family at home (frequently humorous) were read each week by Keillor just after the show's intermission, at the top of the second hour. Birthdays and anniversaries of famous composers and musicians were also observed.
Features
Keillor and the ensemble performed comedy
News from Lake Wobegon
One of the show's best-known features was Keillor's "News from Lake Wobegon", a weekly storytelling monologue, claiming to be a report from his fictitious hometown of
In-jokes are sprinkled through the show, such as "Piscacadawadaquoddymoggin", a made-up word that's been used both for places and for people's names. The components of this made-up word are portions of Native American place names in the New England region of the United States, most of them in Maine (i.e.: Piscataqua, Passamaquoddy, and Androscoggin).
Annual "Joke Show"
Once a year the program featured a special "joke show", which generally included the Lake Wobegon monologue and musical acts, but with other skits replaced by the performers taking turns telling jokes. Humorists such as
Fictional sponsors
The show creates advertisements for fictional products, performed in the style of live old-time radio commercials. The show acknowledges its actual underwriters at the beginning, end, and middle (break) of the show.
Prairie Home's most prominent "sponsor" is the fictitious "Powdermilk Biscuits". Before he and the band performed the product's jingle every week ("Has your family tried 'em, Powdermilk?"), Garrison Keillor would extol Powdermilk's virtues in this way:
Heavens they're tasty, and expeditious. Give shy persons the strength they need to get up and do what needs to be done. Made from whole wheat raised by Norwegian bachelor farmers, so you know they're not only good for you, they're pure, mostly. Get 'em in the bright blue box with a picture of a biscuit on the front, or ready-made in the brown bag with the dark stains that indicate freshness.[38]
Among its other "sponsors", Bebop-A-Reebop Rhubarb Pie (and Frozen Rhubarb Pie Filling) has been prominent, with ads featuring the Bebop-A-Reebop jingle, performed to the tune of "Shortnin' Bread":
One little thing can revive a guy
And that is a piece of rhubarb pie
Serve it up, nice and hot
Maybe things aren't as bad as you thought
Momma's little baby loves rhubarb, rhubarb
Bebopareebop rhubarb pie.[39]
The jingle is usually sung after a bombastic, sound-effect-enhanced tale of woe, and is immediately followed by Keillor asking, "Wouldn't this be a great time for a piece of rhubarb pie? Yes, nothing gets the taste of shame and humiliation out of your mouth quite like Bebop-A-Reebop Rhubarb Pie."
Another prominent "sponsor" is Bertha's Kitty Boutique, whose locations in the fictional "Dales" shopping centers ("
Other "sponsors" have included:
- Café Boeuf, a fictionally and exceptionally snobbish French restaurant in Lake Wobegon "where the elite meet to eat"[41]
- Guy's Shoes—purveyor of Guy's All-Star Shoes, the Converse-like sponsor of the Shoe Band, which specializes in steel-toed shoes ("so even when you strike out [ping!] you can walk away")
- The American Duct TapeCouncil
- The American Society of Sound Effects Specialists
- Bob's Bank ("Save at the sign of the sock", "Neither a borrower nor a lender be")
- The Bon Marché Beauty Salon
- Earl's Academy of Accents
- The Fearmonger's Shop, a purveyor of security devices for the perpetually paranoid
- The Federation of Associated Organizations
- Fred Farrell Animal Calls
- Fritz Electronics ("Where everything you need is on the Fritz"; a possible parody of Muntz Electronics)
- Jack's Auto Repair and Jack's Warm Car Service ("All tracks lead to Jack's, where the bright shining lights show you the way to complete satisfaction")
- Marvin and Mavis Smiley seasonal bluegrass albums
- Midwestern Discount Store
- Monback Moving & Storage, in which a mover can be heard directing a moving truck to back up (hence the name) while the truck's backup alarm can be heard beeping ("Monback ... Monback ... [crunch] That's good.")
- Mournful Oatmeal, a parody of Calvinismin a box")
- The Professional Organization of English Majors (P.O.E.M.)
- Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ("If you can't find it at Ralph's, you can darn well get along without it")
- Raw Bits breakfast cereal, a cereal for a select small target audience ("Oat hulls and wheat chaff—it's not for everybody")
- Rent-a-Raptor ("Rid your home of mice, rabbits, squirrels, and pesky boyfriends")
- The Sidetrack Tap
In addition, the recurring segment "The Lives of the Cowboys" featured its own Western-themed sponsors, including Prairie Dog Granola Bars ("healthier than chewing tobacco and you don't have to spit") and Cowboy Toothpicks ("the toothpick that's guaranteed not to splinter").
Alterations
While much of the show is directed toward
Cast
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Actors
Regularly appearing actors included Tim Russell (beginning in 1994[42]) and Sue Scott (beginning in 1989[42]). When the show resumed as The American Radio Company of the Air in November 1989, radio comedian Bob Elliott, half of the longtime radio and comedy television duo Bob and Ray, became a regular cast member.[43] Actor Bill Perry was a member. Walter Bobbie made frequent appearances, as early as 1989, and continuing through 2006–2007.[42][44][45] Ivy Austin was a regular contributing comedienne (and vocalist) in the early '90s. Allison Janney also appeared regularly in the mid 1990s. Prudence Johnson has performed frequently on the show as an actress (and a singer). Mark Benninghofer joined the cast as a substitute actor for a brief time after Russell broke his ankle in February 2009, forcing him to take a month of medical leave. Erica Rhodes had been an occasional guest on the show, beginning in 1996 when she was 10 years old. Serena Brook joined the cast in October 2016 when Chris Thile became host.
Sound effects artists
The sound effects artists on the show, Tom Keith and Fred Newman, primarily used mouth sounds for their effects, supplemented by props. Keith engineered the first two seasons of the show and then joined the cast. He performed on most shows until 2001. He retired doing his weekday morning radio show in 2008, but continued performing on Prairie Home broadcasts from the Fitzgerald Theater and other regional locations. He continued working on A Prairie home Companion until his death in 2011.[46] Newman eventually took over full-time after Keith passed away.[47]
Musicians
Regular musicians in Guy's All-Star Shoe Band include Richard Dworsky, a composer who appeared weekly as pianist, bandleader, and music director, Gary Raynor on bass and bass guitar, Peter Johnson on percussion, Jevetta Steele on vocals, and Andy Stein on violin, tenor and bass saxophones, and vocals.[48] When the Shoe Band had a horn section, Keillor referred to them as the Shoe Horns.
Other frequent, occasional, former, or one-time musicians on the show include:
- Pat Donohue – acoustic and steel guitars, vocals
- Peter Ostroushko – mandolin, acoustic guitar, fiddle
- Randy Sandke – trumpet, piano, keyboards
- Vince Giordano – bass saxophone, tuba (also band leader of the Nighthawks Orchestra, a Brooklyn-based jazz-style brass band)
- Butch Thompson – clarinet (also appears as a frequent guest pianist)
- George "Red" Maddock – drums (deceased from lung cancer in 1986)
- Greg Brown – harmonica and electric, acoustic, and steel guitars
- Cindy Cashdollar – dobro, steel and acoustic guitars
- Roswell Rudd – trombone (only appeared once)
- Marc Anderson – drums, percussion
- Johnny Gimble – fiddle, mandolin, vocals, skits (died 2015)[49]
- Buddy Emmons – dobro, steel guitar, vocals (died 2015)
- Charlie Parr – steel guitar, vocals
- Tim Sparks – guitar
- Bill Staines – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Elana James – fiddle, vocals
- Philip Brunelle – piano, organ, vocals
- John Koerner – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Dean Magraw – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Dan Barrett– trumpet, cornet
- Sam Bush – mandolin, banjo, vocals
- Mike Craver– acoustic guitar, vocals
- Molly Mason – bass, acoustic guitar, vocals
- Dick Hyman – keyboards, organ, piano
- Howard Levy – harmonica, acoustic guitar
- Scott Robinson – trombone, French horn
- Stuart Duncan – fiddle, vocals
- Dave Bargeron – trombone, French horn
- Rob Fisher – piano, organ, vocals
- J.T. Bates– drums, percussion
- Joe Ely – guitar
- Andra Suchy – vocals, guitar
- Heather Masse of The Wailin' Jennys – vocals
- Sara Watkins (of Nickel Creek) – vocals, fiddle, ukulele
- Maria Jette – vocals
- Janet Sorensen – vocals
- Lynn Peterson – vocals
- Sarah Jarosz – vocals, mandolin, banjo, guitar
- Aoife O'Donovan – vocals
- Christine DiGiallonardo – vocals
- Bill Hinkley
- Judy Larson
- Joel Guzman
- Chet Atkins – guitarist
- The Manhattan Transfer - vocal group
Film
Released on June 9, 2006, A Prairie Home Companion is a film about "a dying radio show that bears striking similarities to 'A Prairie Home Companion,'" with the actual APHC home venue, the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul chosen to serve "as
Books
- ISBN 978-0-67080-514-3
- A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book (2015), 6th ed., HighBridge ISBN 978-1-62231-863-6
LP/CD releases
- A Prairie Home Album [LP] (Minnesota Educational Radio)
- A Prairie Home Companion Anniversary Album [2 LP] (1980, Minnesota Public Radio Inc.)
- Tourists [LP] (1983, PHC)
- Prairie Home Comedy: Radio Songs & Sketches by Garrison Keillor (1988, HighBridge)
- Lake Wobegon Loyalty Days (1989, Virgin)
- Garrison Keillor and the Hopeful Gospel Quartet (1992, Epic)
- Shaking The Blues Away, Rob Fisher and The Coffee Club Orchestra with Garrison Keillor (1992, Angel)
- Now It Is Christmas Again (1994, Angel)
- Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theater: More Songs and Sketches from A Prairie Home Companion [3 CD] (1996, HighBridge)
- Horrors! A Scary Home Companion [2 CD] (1996, HighBridge)
- Pretty Good Jokes [2 CD] (2000, HighBridge)
- Pretty Good Bits from A Prairie Home Companion (2003)
- A Prairie Home Companion: English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate [2 CD] (2008, HighBridge)
- Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon (2009, Highbridge)
Stories from Lake Wobegon
- Gospel Birds and Other Stories of Lake Wobegon (1985). Includes the stories "Pastor Ingqvist's Trip to Orlando", "Mammoth Concert Tickets", "Bruno, the Fishing Dog", "Gospel Birds", "Meeting Donny Hart at the Bus Stop", "A Day at the Circus with Mazumbo", "The Tolleruds' Korean Baby", "Sylvester Krueger's Desk", and "Babe Ruth visits Lake Wobegon".
- News from Lake Wobegon (April 1990). Includes the stories "Me and Choir", "A Day in the Life of Clarence Bunsen", "Letter from Jim", "Fiction", "The Living Flag", "The Tollefson Boy Goes to College", "Tomato Butt", "Chamber of Commerce", "Dog Days of August", "Mrs. Berge and the Schubert Carillon Piano", "Giant Decoys", "Darryl Tollerud's Long Day", "Hog Slaughter", "Thanksgiving", "The Royal Family", "Guys on Ice", "James Lundeen's Christmas", "The Christmas Story Retold", "New Year's from New York", and "Storm Home".
- More News from Lake Wobegon (April 1990). Includes the stories "Rotten Apples", "O Death", "The Wise Men", "A Trip to Grand Rapids", "Truck Stop", "Smokes", "The Perils of Spring", "Let Us Pray", "Alaska", "Uncle Al's Gift", "Skinny Dip", "Homecoming", "Pontoon Boat", "Author", "Freedom of the Press", and "Vick's".
- Lake Wobegon USA (September 1993). Includes the stories "The Krebsbachs' Vacation", "Prophet", "The Six Labors of Father Wilmer", "Fertility", "Aunt Ellie", "Duke's 25th", "Job-Hunting", "You're Not the Only One", "Blue Devils", "Nostalgia", "O Christmas Tree", "Pageant", "Messy Shoes", "Rhubarb", "Sweet Corn", "The Sun's Gonna Shine Someday", and "Yellow Ribbon".
- Summer (May 1997). Includes stories from disc 2 of News from Lake Wobegon.
- Fall (October 1997). Includes stories from disc 3 of News from Lake Wobegon.
- Winter (December 1997). Includes stories from disc 4 of News from Lake Wobegon.
- Spring (April 1998). Includes stories from disc 1 of News from Lake Wobegon.
- Life These Days (October 1998). Includes the stories "Gladys Hits A Raccoon", "The World's Largest Pile", "My Cousin Rose", "The Risk Takers", "Pastor Ingqvist at the Mall", "Hunting Stories", "Sorrows of January", "Clarence Cleans His Roof", "Miracle of the Pastor's Dog", "War of the Krebsbachs", "Graduation", and "Spring" (printed insert).
- Mother Father Uncle Aunt (May 1998). Includes the stories "Ball Jars", "Love While you Dare To", "Saturday Morning in The Bon Marché", "Family Trip to Yellowstone", "The Flood", "Bob Anderson's Last Dance", "Children Will Break Your Heart", "Ronnie and The Winnebago", "Carl's Christmas Pageant", and "The Tombstone".
- Home on the Prairie (July 2003)
- Never Better (2007)
- Faith (April 2008 CD, 1989 Cassette Tape). Includes the stories "Pontoon Boat", "O Death", "Smokes", and "Let Us Pray" from More News from Lake Wobegon.
- Hope (April 2008 CD, 1989 Cassette Tape). Includes the stories "Alaska", "The Perils of Spring", "A Trip To Grand Rapids", and "Author" from More News from Lake Wobegon.
- Love (February 1999, 1989 Cassette Tape). Includes the stories "Truck Stop", "Uncle Al's Gift", "Rotten Apples", and "The Wise Men" from More News from Lake Wobegon.
- Humor (October 1998, 1989 Cassette Tape). Includes the stories "Skinny Dip", "Homecoming", "The Freedom of the Press", and "Vick's" from More News from Lake Wobegon.
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- Kaufman, Peter (July 28, 2005). "Radio for the Eyes: Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor, Unlikely 'Prairie' Film Companions". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 8, 2016. A rich source, not yet fully tapped, for the article.
- Eugene Hernandez; Brian Brooks (February 13, 2006). "Daily Dispatch From Berlin: Altman's Latest, "Prairie"..." IndieWire.com. Archived from the originalon June 11, 2006. Retrieved December 8, 2016. A rich source, not yet fully tapped, for the article.
- "A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor". HollywoodBowl. June 2, 2006. Archived from the original on May 24, 2006. Retrieved December 8, 2016. Hollywood Bowl event site, for the Friday, June 2, 2006 of APHC with Garrison Keillor hosting special guests Kevin Kline, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, and Meryl Streep.
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- Justin, Neal (June 19, 2016). "Sun Is Setting on Garrison Keillor's Time on Lake Wobegon". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, MN. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
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