Title: Bardstown tape 1

Identifier: 1250-s6-b374-fe   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/37075)

Description: Interviews with James Byrd, director of Stephen Foster Story, and Willis Becket, music director of Stephen Foster Story, with commentary on Stephen Foster Story. Interview with Byrd includes the major differences between indoor and outdoor staging, backstage crowding, and issues of college students who act in outdoor theatre. Interview with Becket includes acoustics, having to re-train actors to outdoor theatres, and lacking professional discipline in the young singers and performers. Commentator does not believe the play is an outdoor drama, but rather an indoor drama performed outside. 5" reel.