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Director Robert Altman and writer Garrison Keillor have created a
comic backstage fable about a fictitious radio variety show that has
managed to survive in the age of television. Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin star as the Johnson Sisters, Yolanda and Rhonda, a country duet act and Lindsay Lohan plays Meryl’s daughter, Lola, who gets a chance to sing but forgets the words. Kevin Kline works as a backstage doorkeeper, and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are Dusty and Lefty, a singing cowboy act. This playful story set on a rainy Saturday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, where fans file into the Theater to see “A Prairie Home Companion,” not knowing that tonight’s show will be the last. |