Garrison Keillor

Tickets $39.50-99.50
 

Garrison Keillor Tonight is an evening of stand-up, storytelling, audience song,  and poetry. One man, one microphone. There are sung sonnets, limericks and  musical jokes, and the thread that runs through it is the beauty of growing old.  Despite the inconvenience, old age brings the contentment of LESS IS MORE.  Your mistakes and big ambitions are behind you, nothing left to prove, and small  things give you great pleasure because that’s what’s left. (“I was unhappy in  college because it was a requirement for an intellectual, but then I went into show  business and discovered that people won’t pay to be made unhappy, their kids will  do it for free.”) 
There is the News from Lake Wobegon, a town booming with new entrepreneurs,  makers of artisanal firewood and gourmet meatloaf, breeders of composting  worms, and dogs trained to do childcare. But some things endure, such as the  formation of the Living Flag on Main Street, citizens in tight formation wearing  red, white or blue caps, and Mr. Keillor among them, standing close to old  neighbors, Myrtle Krebsbach (“Truckstop”) and Julie Christensen (“Bruno, The  Fishing Dog”) and Clint Bunsen. And an a cappella sing-along with the audience  singing from memory an odd medley of patriotic songs, pop standards, hymns, and  ending with the national anthem.