HAC Radio Gals

Radio Gals March 22 – 25 Posted by arabon on Jan 23, 2012 in Featured, Little Theatre, News and Press Releases, Uncategorized | 0 comments CLT presents the musical comedy Radio Gals March 22 & 23 at 7 pm March 24 at 2 & 7 pm March 25 at 3 pm. Tickets are $15 General Admission $12 Seniors/HAC Members and $8 students You can order tickets online Buy Tickets or by calling the HAC at 706-629-2599. Featuring: Mary Ellen McCall, Elaine Little, Therese Randall, David K. Smith, Kaytlyn Reese, Jeri Dunn and Ron Amyx. With special guest performers: Michael Clark and Larry Brown. RADIO GALS is a musical by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick, set in the late l920's, and concerning an enterprising woman, Hazel Hunt, of Cedar Ridge, Arkansas who, upon her retirement as the town music teacher, receives a Western Electric 500 watt radio transmitter and begins broadcasting as radio station ''WGAL''. What comes out over the local airwaves is a small town diary, calendar, and stream of consciousness — sort of a Molly Bloom crossed with the Farmers' Almanac — with generous dollops of singing and playing by Hazel's ''all-girl'' orchestra, ''the Hazelnuts'', and that lovesick flapper Gladys Fritts. However, due to Hazel's habit of ''channel wandering'', her broadcasts are not always so local. And listeners as far away as Montreal and Manhattan can testify. Enter O. B. Abbott, Federal Radio Inspector, intent on rescuing the airwaves from gypsies like Hazel Hunt. However, Mr. Abbott soon falls prey to the blandishments of the Hazelnuts, and the Shangri-La that is Cedar Ridge. Inspector Abbott, it turns out, also has a fine tenor voice, plays a mean accordion, and in the course of things falls for the flapper…