The Stephen Foster Story: A Symphonic Drama

Year of Publication
1960
Publication Type
Playscript
Number of Pages or Episodes
107 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Samuel French, Inc.
City
New York
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Abstract
Loosely based on the year leading up to Foster’s marriage, and featuring many of his best-known songs.
Notes
Opened at the J. Dan Talbott Amphitheater in Bardstown, Kentucky, on June 26, 1956, and was staged there annually.
Author Biography
Paul Green (1894-1981), born in Lillington, North Carolina and educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Cornell University, was a playwright who won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for In Abraham's Bosom.
Time
1849-50
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