A Prairie Home Companion

Directors: Robert Altman
Release Date: 9 June 2006

 

Cast:

Garrison Keillor (the show’s creator) as himself
Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin as Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson, who hail from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the last two of what was once a popular family country music act
Lindsay Lohan as Lola Johnson, Yolanda’s daughter who writes poems about suicide
Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly as Keillor’s radio characters Dusty and Lefty, the singing cowboys.
Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman, a businessman from Texas who has come to shut down the show
Kevin Kline as Keillor’s radio character Guy Noir, a film noir P.I. repurposed as the program’s security director
Virginia Madsen as the Dangerous Woman, “Asphodel,” who may or may not be the Angel of Death (Asphodel is a flower, referenced in the poem “Demeter And Persephone” by Alfred Lord Tennyson and associated with death and Hades in Greek mythology)
L. Q. Jones as Chuck Akers
Tim Russell & Maya Rudolph as the stage manager and his assistant
Robin & Linda Williams as Themselves
Tom Keith, as the Sound-Effects Guy
Sue Scott, as the Make-Up Artist

 

Director Robert Altman and writer Garrison Keillor join forces with an all-star cast to create a comic backstage fable, A Prairie Home Companion, 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 that has survived the county-fair circuit, and Lindsay Lohan plays Meryl’s daughter, Lola, who gets her big chance to sing on the show and then forgets the words. Kevin Kline is Guy Noir, a private eye down on his luck who works as the shows security guard, and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are Dusty and Lefty, the Old Trailhands, a singing cowboy act. Add Virginia Madsen as an angel, Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman, Maya Rudolph as a pregnant stagehand and Keillor in the role of hangdog emcee, and you have a playful story set on a rainy Saturday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, where fans file into the Fitzgerald Theater to see “A Prairie Home Companion,” a staple of radio station WLT, not knowing that WLT has been sold to a Texas conglomerate and that tonight’s broadcast will be the shows last.

 

 

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