This special Railroad Hour Christmas party combines holiday songs and reflections with an extended musical retelling of The Nutcracker. Gordon MacRae and Dorothy Kirsten lead the celebration as poor Marie's broken nutcracker battles the Mouse King, becomes a prince and takes her to the Sugar Plum Fairy's magical toyland; the broadcast closes by turning from Christmas entertainment to a prayerful reminder of the holiday's religious meaning.
This The Railroad Hour broadcast aired on December 22, 1952. It is listed as episode 221 in the archive.
Weekly musical-drama anthology sponsored by the Association of American Railroads, starring Gordon MacRae in condensed operettas, Broadway musicals and original musical stories.
Listeners can expect music and drama, dramatized adaptation in format, and romantic and lighthearted in tone.
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