comedy (?)

Many considerations went in to our camping vacation plans. One item of consideration was our desire to see an area community theatre performance of RADIO GALS.

RADIO GALS is a musical that I spent a year or more working on, including the recording of the "Original Cast" CD. It was an incredibly fun show and I consider it's author and some of the performers from the show friends of mine.

And so my wife and I were both looking forward to a reunion of sorts with those characters that we lived with for so long.

Did I say it was a community theatre production?

Now I know I've gotten in to a bit of trouble for my contradictory views on community theatre, but if there is a prime example of community theatre done porrly but with lots of heart, that would be this production of RADIO GALS.

I don't care what the show is, or how you want to alter the script, a show has got to be paced in such a way that the audience doesn't lose interest. Perhaps they didn't really understand what they were saying or doing, because the non-scripted parts they seemed to have fun with. The script looked tired in their efforts.

I wasn't expecting Off-Broadway. I wasn't even expecting anything professional, but I was expecting to laugh and to tap my toes to the music. I didn't do much of either.

I'm sure my children are wondering why we ever thought that RADIO GALS was a fun show. You can check out the official home page for RADIO GALS by clicking here.