Directed by: Eric Jansen
Music Direction: Megan Kelly and Kaylee Millerd
Choreography: Pam Bryan
In the late l920’s, 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 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 in love with the flapper…