IF YOU GO
What: “Radio Gals”When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 18-19, and Jan. 24-26; 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20Where: Artistic Civic Theatre, 907 Gaston St., Dalton Ga.Admission: $9-$15Phone: 706-278-4796Website: www.actdalton.org
Hazel C. Hunt is a pioneer and a modern woman.
Not content with retirement after years as the town music teacher, she becomes – with the retirement gift of a 500-watt transmitter – one of the first women in radio when she launches radio station WGAL in 1920s Cedar Ridge, Ark.
Along with homey chat, rejuvenating tonic plugs and calendar items, she daily offers a wacky quartet of musicians who intone rib-tickling songs for the listeners.
“Radio Gals,” the musical story of fictional Hazel and her station, opens Friday, Jan. 18, at the Artistic Civic Theatre in Dalton, Ga.