Radio Gals
Radio Gals
Book, Music and Lyrics by Mike Craver (Red Clay Ramblers) and Mark Hardwick (Pump Boys and Dinettes).
RLT's production was performed in the Cantey V. Sutton Theatre, May 30-June 22, 2008
Set in the late l920s, and concerning an enterprising woman, Hazel Hunt, of Cedar Ridge, Arkansas. Upon her retirement as the town music teacher, she 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.
Radio Gals posterHowever, 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...
Photos by Stuart Wagner.
Cast (in order of appearance)
- Hazel: Jo Brown
- America: Katie Hennenlotter
- Rennabelle: Rose Martin
- Miss Mabel: Greg Dixon
- Miss Azilee: Brent Wilson
- Gladys Fritts: Susan Burcham
- O.B. Abbott: Don R. Smith
Production Staff and Crew
- Director: Haskell Fitz-Simons
- Music Director: Greg Dixon
- Choreographer: Nancy Rich
- Technical Director: Jim Zervas
- Scenic Designer: Jim Zervas
- Costume Designer: Jenny Butler
- Lighting Designer: Andy Parks
- Sound/Engineer Designer: Rick LaBach
- Props Master: Pat Berry
- Production Stage Manager: Deanna Eckert
- Assistant Stage Manager(s): Chris Eckert & Elaine Petrone
- Assistant to Director: Catherine Lambe
- Audition Coordinator: Marie Berry
- House Manager Coordinator: Ellen Landau
- Usher Coordinator: Adrienne Dyson
- Concession Coordinator: G. Paul Slovensky
- Original Art Work: V. Cullum Rogers
- Advertising and Graphic Design: Scotty Cherryholmes
- Playbill Design: Heidi Dragon
- Poster Printing: PIP Printing
- Photographers: Curtis Brown, Wayne Olson & Stuart Wagner
- Production Assistant: John T. “Jack” Hall
Audition Crew: Amy Blackwell, Amy Crum, Anna Nehring & Tom Nehring
Box Office: Patsy Clarke
Costume Shop Crew: Mary Ali, Ani Goodenberger, Amanda Hassebrock, Vicki Olson, Debbie Sherrod, Yvonne Terrelongue, Lydia Wagner, Jean Wilkinson & Scott Wray
House Managers: Jim Bates, Patsy Clarke, Lynn Freeman, Carol Friedlander, Ellen Landau, Mike McGee, Lilo Miles, Kathleen Rudolph & Judi Wilkinson
Light Crew: Dan Eckert (Crew Chief ), Chris Eckert & Keith Rothschild
Light Hang/Focus: Barbara Biggs, Chris Eckert, Dan Eckert, Joseph Heil, Todd Houseknecht, Pat Kirley, Jake McGoogan & Elaine Petrone
Props Construction Crew: Ben Berry, Marie Berry, Ruth Berry & Robin Hughes
Props Running Crew: Jim Bates (Co-Crew Chief ), Michael Teleoglou (Co-Crew Chief ), Judy Keyes, Mike McGee & Tatyana Stemkovski
Public Relation Crew: Shirley Botkin, Scotty Cherryholmes, Patsy Clarke, Catherine Lambe, Carolyn LeRue, Martha Noyes, Stuart Wagner & David Watts
Set Construction Crew: Ben Berry, Barbara Biggs, Jo Brown, Susan Burcham, Nole Butzke, Dave Davis, Greg Dixon, Chris Eckert, Haskell Fitz-Simmons, Joseph Heil, Bill Hennenlotter, Katie Hennenlotter, Paul Higgins, Todd Houseknecht, Robin Hughes, Kathy Landsittel, David Malone, Rose Martin, Alyssa Petrone, David Petrone, Elaine Petrone, John Price, Nancy Rich, Bunny Saffron, Jack Saffron, Karen Sault, Dick Shirk, Brent Wilson & Scott Wray
Sound Crew: Hope Cadden (Crew Chief ) & Jeff Eckert
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