Humorist Garrison Keillor is bringing his one-man show to The Villages.
Keillor, who hosted the Minnesota Public Radio show “A Prairie Home Companion,” from 1974 to 2016, will be performing at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 at The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center.
The first question that might come to mind, is whether Keillor is too liberal for the famously conservative audience in The Villages. It might come as a surprise, but tickets have been selling at a brisk pace.
“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.
Last month, Keillor performed in the conservative town of Lubbock, Texas.
“I went to Lubbock to do a stand-up show myself at the Cactus Theater, and standing in the lobby it seemed to me that I was drawing a Baptist crowd. I asked an usher and she agreed with me. So I worked some hymns into the show, not hard for an old evangelical like me, and when I started into ‘It Is Well With My Soul’ and they joined in full-voice, suddenly I wasn’t an alien anymore. I was among brethren and sistren. I was instantly at home. And then ‘How Great Thou Art.’ It was powerful,” Keillor said.
Tickets can be purchased online at TheSharon.com, in person at the box office, or by calling the box office (352) 753-3229.