WPMT #20: Maytime

Today WPMT Presents: "Maytime." Music by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics and book by Rida Johnson Young. Starring Jeanette MacDonald as "Marcia Mornay/Miss Morrison," Nelson Eddy as "Paul Allison" and Edgar Barrier as"Nicolai Nazaroff."The beautiful Ottilie, daughter of a wealthy colonel loves Dick, the foreman's son, but is forced by her family to marry her own wastrel cousin. Dick goes off, makes good but returns to find his beloved unattainable and, on impulse, marries another girl. Many years pass; both are now single again. Dick saves Ottilie from bankruptcy by purchasing her home before she can be evicted. Still more time passes an the couple's grandchildren meet and finally find the happiness together that eluded their grandparents.Edited by Remington CleveNew episodes every Tuesday at 1pm CDT

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Porchlight Music Theatre presents: "The Classic Musicals from the Golden Age of Radio." Here, host Michael Weber will introduce you to some of the great American musicals as they were originally presented on the airwaves. Performed live in front of a studio audience near the years the productions played on stage or were adapted as movies, you'll visit an era when Broadway was the central source for the launch of popular music and when stage actors were known by name across the land.