WPMT #109: Dick Tracy in B-Flat

Today’s WPMT premiere features some major stars - Bing Crosby as “Tracy,” funnyman Bob Hope as “Flattop,” Cass Daley as “Gravel Gertie,” at the time - teen heartthrob Frank Sinatra as “Shaky,” actress Dinah Shore as “Tess Trueheart,” Judy Garland as “Snowflake Falls,” The Andrews Sisters as “The Summer Sisters” (May, June and July), actor Frank Morgan as “Vitamin Flintheart,” comedian Jerry Colonna as “Chief Brandon,” Harry Von Zell as “Judge Hooper” and Jimmy Durante as “The Mole.” The original broadcast was performed at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on February 15, 1945 and is available to you, today!

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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.