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''A Prairie Home Companion'' is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, although it is frequently taken on the road. ''A Prairie Home Companion'' is known for its musical guests, especially folk and traditional musicians, tongue-in-cheek radio drama, and Keillor's storytelling segment, "News from Lake Wobegon". In 2015, Keillor announced that he expected to stop hosting the program during the 2016-17 season, to be replaced by Chris Thile. It is produced by Prairie Home Productions and distributed by American Public Media, and is most often heard on public radio stations in the United States. The show has a long history; it has existed in a similar form since as far back as 1974 and borrows its name from a radio program in existence in 1969 that was named after the Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead, Minnesota, next to Concordia College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PHC 25th anniversary website )〕 The radio program inspired a 2006 film of the same name, written by Keillor, directed by Robert Altman, and featuring Keillor, Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, and Woody Harrelson. ==History== The earliest radio program to have the name bore little resemblance to the present Saturday-evening show. ''A Prairie Home Companion'' was originally a morning show, running from 6 to 9 a.m. on Minnesota Public Radio. After researching the Grand Ole Opry for an article, Keillor became interested in doing a variety show on the radio. On July 6, 1974, the first live broadcast of ''A Prairie Home Companion'' took place. That show was broadcast from St. Paul in the Janet Wallace Auditorium of Macalester College. Twelve audience members turned out, mostly children. The second episode featured the first performance on the show by Butch Thompson, who became house pianist. Thompson stayed with the program until 1986, and still frequently performs on the show. In 1978, the show moved into the World Theater in St. Paul, which was renovated in 1986 and renamed the Fitzgerald Theater in 1994. This is the same location that the program uses today. The show went off the air in 1987, and Keillor married and spent some time abroad during the following two years. For a brief time, the show was replacedboth on the air and in the World Theaterby ''Good Evening'', a live variety show designed by ex-''Prairie Home'' and ''All Things Considered'' staffers to retain the audience Keillor cultivated over the years. Many stations opted instead to continue ''APHC'' repeats in its traditional Saturday time slot. In 1989, Keillor returned to radio with ''The American Radio Company of the Air'' (renamed ''Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company'' in its second season), broadcast originally from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The new program was a slightly revised format, with sketches and musical guests reflecting a more New York sensibility, rather than the country and folk music predominant in ''APHC''. Also, while Keillor still sang and delivered a regular monologue on ''American Radio Company'', Lake Wobegon was initially downplayed, as he felt it was "cruel" to talk to a Brooklyn audience about life in a small town. During this period, Keillor revived the full ''APHC'' format only for "annual farewell performances". In the fall of 1992, Keillor returned to the World Theater with ''ARC'' for the majority of the season, and the next year, the program officially reverted to the ''A Prairie Home Companion'' name and format. While many of the episodes originate from St. Paul, the show often travels to other cities around the U.S. and overseas for its live weekly broadcasts. Common road venues include The Town Hall in New York City; Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts; Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia; Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee; the Greek Theater in Los Angeles; and the State Theater in Minneapolis. There is also a show each year at the Minnesota State Fair. The show was originally distributed nationally by Minnesota Public Radio in association with Public Radio International. Its current distributor is Minnesota Public Radio's distribution unit, American Public Media. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Prairie Home Companion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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