A few minutes before showtime, Garrison comes out to warm up the audience.  A few jokes, a song, and a little explanation about this being a live show... no editing.  Please turn off your beepers...

At precisely 5:00 Central, it's showtime ("Oh, hear that old piano, from down the avenue...").  It occurs to me that this picture of "showtime" doesn't look all that much different than the "warmup" picture above.  One difference is the little pink blob to the upper left of the round, blue neon sign.  The pink blob says "ON THE AIR".  The blue sign is for the local public radio station in St. Paul.

 
A chat with musician Spencer Bohren.

the troupe