This postcard of a photo taken around 1950 is from the Queen's Garden scene in Act I of the Lost Colony. The actors here are: Andy Griffith as Sir Walter Raleigh; Lillian Prince as Queen Elizabeth I; and Barbara Edwards Griffith as Eleanor White (later to become Eleanor Dare, mother of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America.) The costumes are by Irene Smart Rains; the scenery is by William Ivey Long, Sr.; and artistic direction by Samuel Seldon.
Also a postcard from the '50's, the native Algonquin indians of Roanoke
Island have spotted the billowing, white sails of the 1584 expedition,
led by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe.
This is certainly not what the natives saw, but in our production of
the Lost Colony, it looks quite impressive. This corner of the backstage
area is known as "fossil row". The "old timers" in the production
gather here every night during the summer before going into costume and
makeup. Pictured here are: Don Bridge; myself(David Miller); Robert
Midgette; Marie Evans and Pete Peterson. This is a 1994 photo taken
when I was technical director for the first time.
I captured this sunrise from backstage in June of 1996. The pier
over Roanoke sound is where we detonate the fireworks used in the Queen's
Garden scene of Act I.
This is a 1989 shot of the character "Uppowoc", here played by dancer,
Kevin Frady. Uppowoc is the Algonquin word for tobacco. It
is also the name of the indian medicine man in the Lost Colony.