Garrison Keillor, then-host of NPR's 'Prairie Home Companion,' was impressed by the '93 snowfall at an ALTheatre show. He rewrote the words to “Oh! Susanna': “Oh! Susanna! O don’t you cry for me, For I’ve gone to Alabama for a couple days to ski.” 🪕
But, the show went on, providing the hardy patrons who made it to the Alabama Theatre an evening they wouldn’t soon forget.“Oh! Susanna! O don’t you cry for meKeillor recounted the evening.
“It was a great snowstorm,” he said. “We came in the day before the show, which was at the Alabama Theatre, and were snowbound in Birmingham for three or four days.”“She just strode out on stage, people applauded, she walked up to the microphone and she and I sang a duet,” he said. “I think we sang, ‘There’s a dark and stormy side of life, there’s a sunny side, too. Though we meet with the darkness and strife, the sunny side we also may view.
Garrison Keillor performs at Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, at home in Mississippi amid her own snow drifts, wrote, “If I’d known about the snowfall and Emmylou beforehand, I’d have walked all the way to Birmingham.” For his part, Keillor returned later in sunny June for a repeat performance, performing “an extra-long” three-hour taped show as payback for the people unable to catch the earlier show.‘’I’d come back here at a moment’s notice if I knew there would be a blizzard,” he told that audience.
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