Franken, best known comically as the milquetoast 12-stepper Stuart Smalley on “Saturday Night Live” in the early 1990s, will also do a live broadcast of his national radio show from Missoula.
The Human Rights Network fundraiser, held annually on the Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, will take place at 8 p.m. in the Wilma Theatre.
Lotto also said the station is working out the details of broadcasting Franken's show from the Missoula Children's Theatre in front of a live audience.
Alison James, development director for the Human Rights Network, said Montana's political climate and the fact that Missoula now has an Air America station were the main reasons for going after Franken.
“We were thinking that you have this new station, and Montana's really on the page nationally as a force in progressive politics,” she said. “I thought Al would want to come to Montana.”
Tickets for the fundraiser are $50; there is a pre-show reception at 6:15 p.m. at the Wilma, where attendees can meet Franken. Tickets for that are $150, or $250 a couple. All go on sale after Dec. 1 and will be available at the Wilma or through the Montana Human Rights Network.
Franken is the author of several books, including “Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot,” “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them,” and most recently “The Truth (with jokes).”
Reach Entertainer editor Jamie Kelly at 523-5254 or at jkelly@missoulian.com
Tickets go on sale in December
Tickets are $50; Tickets for a pre-show reception with Al Franken are $150, or $250 a couple. On sale after Dec. 1 at the Wilma or through the Montana Human Rights Network.
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