The 50th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion (Canceled)

The 50th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion is a 140-minute show celebrating the last live radio variety show with an opening six-minute video of the show’s origins in Minnesota and Garrison Keillor’s stand-up on the beauty of being 80.

The show includes comedy sketches — such as “Guy Noir, Private Eye,” “The Lives of the Cowboys,” “Duane’s Mom” and “Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian” — with the Royal Academy of Radio Acting and sound-effects wizard Fred Newman. There will also be an extended commercial for Powdermilk Biscuits on the subject: “Cheerfulness is a Choice.”

There will be breaks to hear a word or two from the American Duct Tape Council, Real Hot Coffee, Guy’s Shoes and the Ketchup Advisory Board. There will also be features with Rich Dworsky and the Guy’s Hot Shoe Band, rags and stomps and blues, duets with Heather Masse & Keillor of a medley of love poems and old jokes, an audience sing-along intermission and the latest news from Lake Wobegon, “where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are all above average.”