Join The Lost Colony on Wednesday, July 11th for a preshow Talkback with Music Director, McCrae Hardy. The preshow Talkback will begin at 7:00 PM. This is McCrae’s sixth season as Music Director.
McCrae Hardy was the first Musical Director for the North Carolina Theatre in Raleigh, NC, and held that position from 1984 – 2005. In 1995, he was awarded the Raleigh Medal of Arts “for extraordinary Achievement in the Arts.” McCrae served as Musical Director and orchestrator/arranger for Unto These Hills in Cherokee, NC for nearly three decades. He served as Arranger and Music Director for the Branson, MO run of Patsy, a tribute to the legendary Patsy Cline. He was Music Director/Arranger/Conductor for several Duke Children’s Classic Productions in the mid 1990’s. He has been a guest conductor with the NC Symphony and Music Director for Pittsburgh CLO’s A Musical Christmas Carol. McCrae is currently Conductor of the Triangle Youth Symphony, in Raleigh, NC. Raised in Yadkin County, he attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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About The Lost Colony
First staged in 1937, The Lost Colony (a 501-c3 non-profit) is the nation’s premier and longest-running outdoor symphonic drama. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Paul Green, The Lost Colony’s 2018 season, sponsored by PNC, runs through August 22 at Roanoke Island’s Waterside Theatre, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Curtain time is 7:45 pm. For tickets and information, go to www.TheLostColony.org or call (252) 473-6000.