Radio Gals

The auditions have been held and the cast has been picked. Rehearsals are underway for this upbeat feel good show.



Radio Gals
Book and Lyrics by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick
produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Directed by Ashley Raymer-Brown.



Mark your calenders for
February 24th 7pm, 25th 7pm and the 26th at 3pm.
Production to be held at Thomas and King Leadership and Conference Center.


"RADIO GALS" is a musical by Mike Craver and Mark Hardwick, set in the late l920's, 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... "


GCT's Cast

Hazel Hunt will be played by Kristin Gourlay

Gladys Fritts will be played by Debra Kumar

America will be played by Shelby Peel

Rennabelle will be played by Rachael Yeager

Azilee Swindle will be played by Brian Barker

Mable Swindle will be played by Andrew Coburn

O.B. Abbott will be played by John Campbell

Band members: Sarah DeMoor, Jacob DeMoor, Jessica DeMoor, Mallory Sailors and Shayne Osborne