Our Town (2003)
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63% of users liked it
(571 ratings)
Originally assembled by actress Joanne Woodward at Connecticut's Westport County Playhouse (where she served as artistic director), this highly praised 2002 revival of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play Our Town enjoyed a brief Broadway stay that same year, and it was during… More Originally assembled by actress Joanne Woodward at Connecticut's Westport County Playhouse (where she served as artistic director), this highly praised 2002 revival of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play Our Town enjoyed a brief Broadway stay that same year, and it was during its New York run that the production was videotaped for the Showtime cable network. The revival's principal attraction was Woodward's husband, Paul Newman, in the role of the avuncular Stage Manager, who narrates the action and occasionally converses with the characters on-stage and with members of the audience. Covering a period from 1901 to approximately 1917, the play is set in the New England community of Grover's Corners (conveyed with a bare minimum of sets and props, as dictated by Wilder's original staging notes). The focus is on the romance between Emily Webb (Maggie Lacey), daughter of the town's newspaper editor, and George Gibbs (Ben Fox). The play's three acts run the full gamut of Emily and George's relationship, from courtship, to marriage, to early death. In addition to Newman, the cast of Our Town is full of familiar TV and movie faces, among them Jeffrey DeMunn, Jane Curtin, Mia Dillon, Travis Walters, Stephen Mendillo, and Jake Robards, grandson of Jason Robards Jr. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- James Naughton
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Drama
PG,
- In Theaters
- May 23, 2003 Wide
Critic Reviews
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David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
Reminds us of what an extraordinary work Our Town is and will always be, as long as it's handled by real pros.
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Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com
Made for TV production still grabs, and with Paul Newman in Stage Director role.
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Susan Granger, www.susangranger.com
If you missed the sold-out Westport Country Playhouse's production of Our Town, now is your chance to see what made it so incredibly special.
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Cast
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Paul Newman
as Stage Manager
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Maggie Lacey
as Emily Webb
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Ben Fox
as George Gibbs
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Frank Converse
as Dr. Gibbs
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Jayne Atkinson
as Julia Gibbs
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Jeffrey DeMunn
as Charles Webb
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Jane Curtin
as Myrtle Webb
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Stephen Spinella
as Simon Stimson
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Mia Dillon
as Mrs. Soames
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Jake Robards
as Howie Newsome
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Travis Walters
as Si Crowell
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T.J. Sullivan
as Joe Crowell
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Stephen Mendillo
as Constable Bill Warren
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John Braden
as Prof. Willard
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Tom Brennan
as Joe Stoddard
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Conor Donovan
as Wally Webb
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Kristen Hahn
as Rebecca Gibbs
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Carter Jackson
as Sam Craig
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Wendy Barrie-Wilson
as Woman in Balcony
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Reathel Bean
as Man in Auditorium
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Cynthia Wallace
as Woman in Auditorium
