As plans are made for George and Emily to wed after high school graduation, their families grapple with the more mundane concerns of daily life: George's mother Julie (Jayne Atkinson) frets over her hard-working husband Dr.
It's a place and time summoned forth by the Stage Manager (Paul Newman), an omniscient observer presenting and commenting upon the lives and loves, hopes and fears, joys and even the deaths of its citizens.Ĭhief among Grovers Corners' townsfolk is George Gibbs (Ben Fox), a bright young student and baseball star who literally falls in love with the girl next door, pretty Emily Webb (Maggie Lacey), who seems destined to become his soul mate.
Acclaimed writer Thornton Wilder won the second of three Pulitzer Prizes for his 1938 play "Our Town," a masterpiece of modern drama set in a small, close-knit New Hampshire community called Grovers Corners at the turn of the century.
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