Radio Gals

Just what I needed at the end of a hectic day. Radio Gals. A musical at Murry's Dinner Playhouse. It's by Mark Craver and Mark Hardwick. Craver was also involved in Oil City Symphony and Smoke on the Mountain (coming to MDP later this year - highly recommended). Odd collection of folks in attendance: Dave Woodman, local TV celeb (BD and anniversary) and about 30-40 students from Drew Central HS drama class and an assortment of old geezers like me. Opened at Arkansas Rep in 1993, moved on to off Broadway. Set in Cedar Ridge, AR where a retired music teacher broadcasts as radio station WGAL. Good comedy, good choreography, good food, good fellowship, good grief!!! Check it out. One of the most entertaining parts of the evening was watching the students. On average, they drank about 4-5 non-alcoholic smoothies (for lack of a better word). Can't remember ever being that young.

The ganglion story

Was recently reminded of a humorous story that happened to one of our local pharmacists. (All names must be withheld to protect the innocent and my rear.) The pharmacist had developed a wrist ganglion (a cyst arising from a joint membrane or tendon sheath) and was planning a visit to his local family practitioner. I saw him in the pharmacy before his appointment and he was showing me the cyst. I told him that the old timers didn't usually go to the doctor with ganglions, but instead, gave them a good thump with the family bible. The blow would rupture the cyst and the body would absorb the fluid. He thought I was kidding, but for real, they used to do that. So I was thinking, wouldn't it be fun to alert his doctor to what I had said. A little "heads up" we would say today. Some days later I saw the family practitioner and he told me what had happened. After examining the pharmacist and assuring him it was, indeed, a ganglion, he paused a few moments reflecting on what he might do. Finally he excused himself and left the room. Minutes later he returned. You guessed it! He had the biggest old Holy Bible (KJV of course) in his hand and asked the patient to lay his wrist on the table. To which the patient exclaimed, "What are you going to do?" By this time the family doc could hold back no longer and spilled the beans. Can't remember if it happened around April 1st, but it would have made a great April Fool's prank!