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Radio Gals
 
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Radio Galsby Mike Craver & Mark Hardwick Directed by Al Edick Morrison Playhouse, Porter Center, Brevard College August 8-17, 2008 |
CastCheryl Walkup.......................Hazel HuntRebecca Gill..........................America Emilia Thompson...................Renebelle Kathy Kitahata......................Gladys Fritts Marvin Barg...........................O. B. Abbott Bob Stacy..............................Azilee Swindle Richard Seiler.........................Mabel Swindle Jim Phillips.............................Maude Swindle The Musicians Patti Black.........................Piano Diana Zerby.......................Violin, Accordion, Keyboard David Fox..........................Percussion |
Synopsis |
The show is set in the late 1920's, and concerns 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" chorus, "the Hazelnuts," the orchestra, 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 to that. Enter O. B. Abbott, a 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... |
