Our Town

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Richard’s attempt to stage his mother’s funeral, with her coffin being lowered from the ceiling, while “Also sprach Zarathustra” plays and smoke billows toward the audience, fortunately comes to naught; but he announces at the ceremony that he’ll direct a production of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play “Our Town” at the theater, to “restore the soul of this town.”

From Los Angeles Times

But perhaps the nicest thing that can be said about “American Classic” is that when the actors take their curtain call for “Our Town”—the American classic Richard mounts to save the MFT—a viewer will have the same emotional pang that he or she has in a live theater, when actors have moved an audience to tears not just by their words but their camaraderie.

From The Wall Street Journal

We try to make our town look good.

From BBC

"We have three police vehicles in our town, we are very small. We are a small community. We know each other, we all know the victims. They are our friends, our friends' children."

From BBC

"We remain firmly committed to negotiating in good faith to reduce disruption for families and to ensure all children in our town can enjoy a good education and success in life," they said.

From BBC