The well-respected and fascinating Don Shelby, former anchor for the local CBS affiliate WCCO, Channel 4, in the Twin Cities will be performing a one-man show: “Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi." Shelby is also an author having written “The Season Never Ends.”
The show will be performed in the Dassel-Cokato Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available online at www.dc.k12.mn.us/pac and are also sold through the Dassel-Cokato Community Education office by calling 320-286-4120. All tickets are reserved seats and cost $20 for adults and $7 for youth (ages 1-18.) Tickets will also be available at the door, beginning at 6 p.m.
As the Drummer put it, “Best known for the novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), Twain also worked as a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the Civil War and penned the travel book and memoir "Life on the Mississippi" in 1883. In this one-man show, Mark Twain - portrayed by Don Shelby - will amaze his audience with his wit and sensibility. As one audience member put it after a past performance, "Don Shelby not only looks like Mark Twain, he tells a story like Mark Twain with all the home spun humor and detail we all know Twain for."
Shelby has performed this show for 25 years, and each time his hope is that for the two hours, the audience will not see the news anchor but rather be "transported back in time." Shelby will also stay for an after-performance stage talk with the audience, where they can ask questions regarding either Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, or Shelby himself.”
If we can’t get Hal Holbrook, Don is certainly the next best performer…..don’t miss it!
For more information call 320-286-4120.
Best, Ron
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