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...snagging tourists, in spots that afford a vista. The oldest of these productions is The Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past 21 years has been Joe Layton (a director of some note, as Diana Ross, Bette Midler or Barbra Streisand could tell you), who was saying to the cast during their muggy dress rehearsal, "You're boring. You're dull. Everybody's sounding alike. Everybody's saying lines...
Roanoke Sound lay beyond the stage; water lapped at the set. Lightning bugs not yet mature enough to illuminate danced on a northeast breeze. The smell of Cutter's lay heavy upon the air. Now and again someone would thwack a thigh and a mosquito would perish. Periodically, Layton would clap his hands three times sharply and stop the work: "People, make it your own-even though I am giving you all this picky stuff...
...anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth date, approached, they commissioned Paul Green, whose 1926 drama In Abraham's Bosom had won a Pulitzer Prize, to turn their origins into art. By 1963 the play was growing a little long in the tooth, and they asked Broadway Director Layton to overhaul...
Florence DiGiacinto-Layton Woodbine...
...most part, the coast-to-coast celebration was an outpouring of innocent joy. Said Lois Layton, who drove from Norfolk, Va., to stand in a crowd of some 400,000 watching the motorcade that took the freed hostages to President Ronald Reagan's welcoming ceremony at the White House: "It's like a release to me. I couldn't go to Iran and fight, but I can come here and scream." Said Norma Rose of Silver Spring, Md.: "I felt the suffering. Now, I feel part of the miracle of their freedom. It's what...