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A Prairie Home Companion hits 490 movie venues in Feb — including Asheville

[Originally posted Dec. 21] Businesswire.com reports that Garrison Keillor’s show will be viewable at the Carolina in Asheville: Garrison Keillor, host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” brings the beloved radio show to select movie theaters in communities nationwide with a special live performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor – LIVE in HD on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 8:00 p.m. EST.

The live event will originate from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., where the show has been performed since 1978. An encore presentation will be shown in select movie theaters on Tuesday, Feb. 9.

  “‘A Prairie Home Companion’ has been a treasured jewel of American radio entertainment for more than three decades and will now come to life like never before on the big screen”

Tickets for the live and encore events are available at presenting theater box offices and online at http://www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of participating theater locations, please visit http://www.FathomEvents.com or http://prairiehome.publicradio.org (locations and participants may be subject to change)....

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As best I can tell, tickets for this are $22 each plus a 50-cent service fee.

Rebecca Sulock

Jan 22, 2010
at 05:50 PM


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