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Radio GalsCBC/WRAL Community Fund of Triangle Community Foundation Radio Gals Book, Music and Lyrics by Mike Craver (Red Clay Ramblers) and Mark Hardwick (Pump Boys and Dinettes). Cantey V. Sutton Theatre (Reserved Seating) On Friday, June 20, RLT will host Mike Craver, the original Red Clay Rambler, who will invite questions from the evening's audience in a talk-back session following the performance. 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.
Director: Haskell Fitz-Simons Read the review by Robert McDowell. Read the preview. Audience survey raffle - see if you won! Download the show poster (PDF)
Ticket informationTickets on sale now from etix.com or from the RLT Box Office at 919-821-3111.
Ticket prices:
Adults: $18 Note: Students are up to and including college. Seniors are age 62 and up. Dates and Times: May 30, 31, June 5-7, 12-14, 19-21 at 8:00pm
For more information, please contact the RLT Box Office on 919-821-3111.
What the media has said about Radio Gals"Radio Gals is a throwback to summer theatre the way it used to be. It is dizzy, daffy, and silly, demanding enough for the performers to have fun exerting themselves, undemanding enough for the audience to relax and have a good time... Radio Gals salutes the core American value of individual initiative. And while it has fun with the absurd side of earlier styles of popular entertainment, it also cherishes their enduring value, and that is not an exercise in nostalgia." "Radio Gals is a lively, cheery, nostalgia-dipped musical, keeping the old fashioned musical numbers, country humor and romance coming fast enough to charm the ear." "A loving valentine to a bygone America." "The magic of Radio Gals is in its loving re-creation of America's innocent musical past. Hardwick and Craver have brilliantly recaptured the spirit of small-town America in the '20s with a remarkable sense of authenticity. This is a fun, moving tribute to the pure, light hearted innocence that was once America, and may still be lurking somewhere deep in our hearts."
"Exuberant, ebullient, often hilarious, always delightful". CastThe cast of RLT's production of Radio Gals is: Hazel: Jo Brown
Songs in the showThe songs you'll hear in Radio Gals are:
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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...
All performances are wheelchair accessible.
Assistive listening devices are available for all performances.
Audio description for those with visual disabilities at the Sunday, June 1, 3pm matinee