WPMT #84: Rio Rita

Today’s the day to save Hotel Mesa Franceisca and have too much fun doing it! Tune into the musical comedy “Rio Rita” for music by Harry Tierney and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy and book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, as heard on The Railroad Hour, November 8, 1948. Starring Margo, Marion Hutton, Bob Sweeney and Hal March and Gordon MacRae with Alan Reed, Alvia Allman and Paul Frees. Available on all major podcast platforms!

Om Podcasten

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.