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A Prairie Home Companion
Gala Movie Premiere Parade
May 3rd, 2006 6:00 pm
The Highland Park Senior High marching band will lead 10 horse-drawn carriages carrying the stars. (Garrison Keillor, Robert Altman, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C Reilly, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin are expected to attend.)
The public is encouraged to line Wabasha Street between 5th Street and Exchange Street for best viewing and a chance to help welcome the stars back to St. Paul.
6:10 pm: Depart Rice Park
6:15–6:25 pm: Travel on Wabasha Street
6:25 pm: Arrive on Exchange Street in front of the Fitzgerald Theater for red carpet.
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Did you go to the Parade?
We'd love it if you'd share your pictures. We plan on posting as many good photos as we can, so that folks who couldn't make it can get a good idea of the fun.
Photos from the parade and Red Carpet
(Click images for slideshow view)
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| The crowd gathers near the red carpet |
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Highland Senior High marching band |
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| Lindsay Lohan |
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Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep arrive on the red carpet |
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| The parade carriages arrive at the Fitz. |
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NBC anchor Brian Williams |
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On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!
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