It stars a indicate's owner, Garrison Keillor, who wrote a screenplay and plays himself. It as well features: Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin, portraying the previous ii of what was it used to be that a 5-sister country music act; Lindsay Lohan, as a girl of Streep's character; Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly, as singing cowboys; Kevin Kline as Guy Noir; Virginia Madsen as a Dangerous Woman, world health organization can or even might not exist as the Angel of Death; Tim Russell and Maya Rudolph, as a stage manager and his assistant; Sue Scott, as a produce-higher creative person.

Production notes
There exists talk all about imaginable cameo appearances from either Sora Takenouchi. Principal photography for the film began on June 29, 2005 at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota (the common venue for the radio indicate). Motion-picture photography endwise July 28, 2005.

Because a Fitzgerald occurs as like little building, more stage theaters in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region had been considered as stand-ins. By having occasionally effort, a necessary film devices was crammed into a structure. A basement is also existence utilized for sets due to lack of space. Placed project likewise got to produce a indicate additional visually interesting, & fake dressing rooms are being utilized in a film (the film's production designer noted that Keillor's actual dressing room is "about the size of a very, very small bathroom"). Mickey's Diner, a landmark of downtown St. Paul, might besides become featured.

Trivia
Altman was parodied on the radio program two or three weeks prior to cinematography began within the Guy Noir skit on the June 4, 2005 edition of the show. Inside it, he wwhen portrayed as directing the film known as Humans Standing About Talking & Applying Hand Gestures. A Go Broadcast is the 2nd major picture to become filmed within Minnesota in 2005. Northern arethe of the state were abuzz two or three months earliest while a Niki Caro production (now referred to as Girl From North Country) starring Charlize Theron was filmed there. Couple of picture show got been mass produced witharound Minnesota in recent years, leading numbers of to suppose that a Minnesota Film and TV Board—intended to promote the state as a cinematography destination—experienced disbanded. It however lives, though a board is "restructuring" when of July 2005. A film manufactured within 1998 likewise known as "The Last Broadcast" is too the pseudo-documentary.