Colleen Jenkins with a must read: She made her entrance like always.
Rosa Rio ascended from beneath the Tampa Theatre stage floor, her fingers coaxing Everything's Coming Up Roses from the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ. Her pale pink gown sparkled under the spotlight as the audience greeted her with thick applause.
It was like any other Sunday matinee performance, except for this: After decades of coy demurrals, the legendary organist had decided at last to answer publicly the question she detests.
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