Whiteley Creek Homestead

What a novel idea and you can be part of it! In select theaters one night only on February 4th, A Prairie Home Companion is coming to the big screen at a movie theater near you! In an exciting first for the show, on Thursday, February 4, 2010, a performance of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be beamed live in high defintion exclusively to some 500 participating movie theaters and performing arts centers across the U.S. and Canada. We've attended Garrison Keillor's live performances twice. The first time was at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul and the most recent was 4th of July 2009 when he offered a free live outdoor performance in Avon, Minnesota. http://www.whiteleycreek.com/queen_of_the_meadow_bloom/2009/07/prairie-home-companion.html We sat outdoors in our lawn chairs centerstage in the fourth row back. Both performances were amazing… absolutely amazing. This performance is not live as in being at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul or in Avon, Minnesota, but it's live as in we're seeing it on-screen in real time. That's good enough for me.  

Get the scoop on the upcoming movie theater venue here: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/live-in-hd/index.html?refid=2 and here's a YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmgMiv1hbVs&feature=player_embedded 

Since the tickets are $22.00 apiece, this is how you can save a little money like I did… in a round about way. I say roundabout because you are not really pocketing the money. You are spending your savings elsewhere, so that means you need to weigh whether you can use the product or not. When you go to the Prairie Home Companion website, it will allow you to check to see if there is a movie theater near you that is featuring the performance. When you locate a theater and click to purchase tickets, you will see an offer for one free movie ticket (up to $13.50) from a company called Fandango. The offer requires that you try or purchase one advertiser offer from the list provided, so don't follow through with your ticket purchase transaction just yet. Choose your offer and click on the company's site where you'll complete your trial agreement or purchase. I chose stamps.com where I made a page of 20 stamps with a personalized photo printed on them to use for sending mail to my grandkids. The page of 44 cent stamps was $18.99, so I spent a little over the $13.50 I saved on the ticket, but I've been wanting to create some stamps from that site for quite some time. It was a good way to try it out. I found a coupon code online for stamps.com that saved me the shipping charge of $2.99. To use it, after you've uploaded your photo to create your stamp and you're in the checkout step, enter the promotion code CJ2009. After you receive an email confirming either your agreement to try a product or else your purchase invoice (in my case it was a purchase invoice from stamps.com), forward it to support@takeonegetone.com. You'll then receive a promotion code from them for one movie ticket (value up to $13.50). Now you must begin the ticketing purchasing steps again, but this time you will enter your code that will save you $13.50 off a ticket. You don't have to use the $13.50 savings promotion code immediately, but it must be used within 90 days.  The downside of using Fandango vs. purchasing ticets at the movie theater window is that they charge a $2.00 per ticket convenience charge, so that ate up $4.00 of my $13.50 savings.

If you don't want to go through all the hassle to, in reality, not save any money at all… just buy your tickets straight out at the movie theater for $22.00 a ticket or wait until the following week and view the encore performance (albeit not live) for $18.00 a ticket. It was all so worth it for me because I now have the most adorable stamps coming in the mail… I'll feature them in an upcoming post… that I know my grandkids will love. Yes, it was so worth it. 

A Prairie Home Companion is coming to the big screen, at a movie theater near you! In an exciting first for the show, on Thursday, February 4th, 2010, a performance of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be beamed live in high-definition exclusively to some 500 participating movie theaters and performing arts centers across the U.S. and Canada.

A Prairie Home Companion is coming to the big screen, at a movie theater near you! In an exciting first for the show, on Thursday, February 4th, 2010, a performance of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be beamed live in high-definition exclusively to some 500 participating movie theaters and performing arts centers across the U.S. and Canada.