Classic Musicals From The Golden Age of Radio

It's time for a celebration of the most popular film titles of the 20th Century, "All About Eve" and its musical version "Applause," on WPMT. The WPMT premiere is now available on all major platforms featuring "All About Eve" starring Tallulah Bankhead recorded in 1953 and music from "Applause" starring another legendary actress - Lauren Bacall!

Privyet! and Bon Jour! Today's WPMT is a celebration of Cole Porter's hit musical "Silk Stockings" which was inspired by the movie classic "Ninotchka." Our program stars Rosallind Russel and Spencer Tracy in the roles created on film by Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas as heard in the 1940 Screen Guild Theatre broadcast. It's an international comedy for this week's WPMT now playing on all major listening platforms.

Today is the day to listen to WPMT's Halloween special celebration of "Evening Primrose," featuring the 1947 radio play by John Collier from the 1966 Stephen Sondheim's TV musical version which NPR called "a 'Twilight Zone' episode set to music." Happy Halloween!

Howdy! It's time to join WPMT for a celebration of the 1959 Broadway musical "Destry Rides Again," featuring a rare recording of the 1945 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast of the story starring James Stewart and Joan Blondell with Leo Cleary. Shine up that saddle and settle in for this week's premiere, "Destry Rides Again," now available on all major listening platforms.

Today is the day to find some love on WPMT with the premiere of "She Loves Me" and "The Shop Around the Corner" starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche with Felix Bressart as originally recorded on the Lux Radio Theater in 1941. Celebrate Sweetest Day, October 15, with this romantic story.

The train is about to leave the station…are you on board? WPMT’s premiere of “Twentieth Century” which is the basis of the musical "On Twentieth Century," with music by Cy Coleman, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, starts at 1 PM CT on the dot! This 1934 classic stars Orson Welles as “Oscar'' and Elissa Landi as “Lily,” with Sam Levine, Ray Collins and Everett Sloane. Take a wild trip across the country from your living room, as listeners did when it aired on Campbell Playhouse, March 24, 1939!

Today, tune in to hear “The Great Waltz” play as it did on The Railroad Hour on March 1, 1954. Shine those dancing shoes, practice your best box step and graciously extend your hand to a partner close by, because it is time to tune in to your favorite podcast platform and waltz the afternoon away!

Look up! “A Star is Born” premieres today at 1 PM CT, and features a behind-the-scenes team that is nothing short of amazing, including Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Robert Carson writing the screenplay, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. If you fell in love with the 2018 film starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, you need to experience the original!

Get ready for a serious pull at the heartstrings and you may want to have some tissues handy! The classic “The Bells of St. Mary's” premieres today at 1 PM CT, featuring an all-star cast including Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman, with screenplay by Dudley Nichols, lyrics by Johnny Burke and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Today's premiere was first heard on the Screen Guild Theatre, October 6, 1947.

Gather the troops and sound the trumpet! WPMT’s premiere of “Buck Privates'' is going live today on Apple, Facebook, Spotify, Youtube or any major podcast platform. This Lux Radio Theatre broadcast, originally heard on October 13, 1941, features a screenplay by Arthur T. Hormanand John Grant, lyrics by Don Raye and music by Hugh Prince and Sonny Burke.