Garrison Keillor Program

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CONTENTS Theatre Staff.......................................................................................................................................2 Whitney Morse on The Sharon® L. Morse Performing Arts Center.....................................................3 Garrison Keillor Tonight....................................................................................................................8 Coming Soon............................................................................................................................. 10-15

THEATRE STAFF Lighting Supervisor.................... Ally Southgate Associate Lighting Supervisor......Dio Raquel Jr. Production Swing......................Nichole Pollack House Manager................................Alec Speers Assistant House Manager...............Tina Carroll Assistant House Manager...... Savannah Wagner Lead Housekeeper........................ Victoria Doss Housekeeper................................. Amber Sacks Analyst, Sales & Customer Support.....................Kristin Fortuna Marketing & Media Coordinator......Jessica Nix Marketing Account Manager......... Erika Nelson Graphic Designer..........................Krissi Kugler Web Designer..........................David Sponseller Ad Sales....marketing@significantproductions.org

SIGNIFICANT PRODUCTIONS BOARD President...................................................................................................Elliot Sussman, MD, MBA Vice President......................................................................................................Marcus Bridgewater Treasurer....................................................................................................................... Donna Taylor Secretary ............................................................................................................... Elizabeth Constant Board Member.............................................................................................................Jason Goedken

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Executive Director......................Jason Goedken Artistic Director........................Whitney Morse Associate Artistic Director.............Angel Creeks Director of Operations.....................Jon Cronin Director of Business..................... Sean Graham Director of People, Projects & Culture........................Leslie Becker Development Director........... Yasmeen Stogden Marketing Director.........Monica Berdecio, MA Booking Manager............................Sierra Weiss Production Manager...................Mike Giovinco Assistant Production Manager...........Madi Carr Audiovisual Supervisor..................... Luke Bezio Audiovisual Technician..................Roel Cavazos Desk & Facility Director............ Tony Fairchild

WHITNEY MORSE on

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Dear Patron of the Arts, Welcome to The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center!

Much like the building’s namesake, my grandmother, Sharon L. Morse, we love all varieties of the performing arts here. It is in her memory that I, along with my amazing team of artists and arts administrators, strive to bring many different types of the highest quality entertainment here to The Sharon.

Since opening in 2015, we have strived to establish your trust, that a show at The Sharon is a show worth seeing. Perhaps you find yourself here today to see a concert of one of your favorite musicians, or to take in the national tour of a Broadway show. Either way, we encourage you to consider trying out a new show that perhaps you haven’t heard of before, knowing that it has been intentionally curated by our team.

We welcome you to The Sharon: a place for you to see an old favorite, but also a place to discover your new favorite. I sincerely hope you enjoy the show today, and I look forward to seeing you here again soon!

See You at The Sharon,

Whitney Morse Artistic Director

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GARRISON KEILLOR TONIGHT 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.

Despite the inconvenience, old age brings the contentment of LESS IS MORE. Your mistakes and big ambitions are behind you, nothing left to prove, and small things give you great pleasure because that’s what’s left. (“I was unhappy in college because it was a requirement for an intellectual, but then I went into show business and discovered that people won’t pay to be made unhappy, their kids will do it for free.”)

There is the News from Lake Wobegon, a town booming with new entrepreneurs, makers of artisanal firewood and gourmet meatloaf, breeders of composting worms, and dogs trained to do childcare. But some things endure, such as the formation of the Living Flag on Main Street, citizens in tight formation wearing red, white or blue caps, and Mr. Keillor among them, standing close to old neighbors, Myrtle Krebsbach (“Truckstop”) and Julie Christensen (“Bruno, The Fishing Dog”) and Clint Bunsen. And an a cappella sing-along with the audience singing from memory an odd medley of patriotic songs, pop standards, hymns, and ending with the national anthem.

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