Karen Knotts: One-Woman Show at Andrews

For years, the question lingered in Karen Knotts' ear like a bad ring tone.

"So many people, all of my life, have asked me what's it like growing up with Don Knotts as your dad," she says by telephone from her home in Los Angeles. "The fascination people have with my father was just never-ending. I finally said, almost jokingly, well, why don't I just do a show to answer all of those questions."

When her father, the legendary comedic actor best known for his role as Barney Fife on the "The Andy Griffith Show," suddenly died in 2006, it was Karen Knotts who began asking questions....

...Knotts, 60, now reveals those stories in her one-woman show, "Tied Up in Knotts," which she performs Sunday at Andrews University's Howard Performing Arts Center. In the production, Knotts steps into the roles of the famous people who came in and out of her father's life, and also serves as the show's narrator. Photographs and some rarely seen video clips augment the story, which ultimately is a father-daughter tale of his influence and their close bond on and off stage.

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