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NED ROREM OUR TOWN Matthew DiBattista, tenor | Margot Rood, soprano Brendan Buckley, tenor | Glorivy Arroyo, mezzo-soprano Angela Gooch, soprano | David Kravitz, baritone Krista River, mezzo-soprano Donald Wilkinson, bass-baritone | Stanley Wilson, tenor MONADNOCK MUSIC GIL ROSE, CONDUCTOR This is the world-premiere recording of Ned Rorem's (b. 1923) acclaimed setting of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, one of the best-known plays of the 20th century. Rorem manifests Wilder's "emotional shyness" with abrupt stylistic cross-cutting between Americana, transatlantic modernism, and Gallic lyricism. Everywhere in the music there is a sort of cool, self-contained regretfulness—the regret so central to the play's initial impetus, a regret so intense as to border on dread—that perfectly underpins and undercuts the sentimentality of the portraits. GRAMOPHONE “…[Our Town] receives a loving debut on record from Monadnock Music under the direction of Gil Rose.” MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL "Gil Rose and his colleagues have done [the score] and the composer proud with this committed first recording. This is an important release." OPERA NEWS “…Rorem’s colorful orchestrations are rendered brightly and vividly, and ensemble playing is very good under the precise, authoritative conducting of New World preserves neglected treasures Gil Rose.” of the past and nurtures the creative future of American music. Through the production of over 400 recordings some 700 American composers have been represented. In an industry obsessed with million-unit sales and immediate profits, New World chooses artistic merit as its indicator of success. Gil Rose, Executive Producer | www.bmopsound.org Distributed by Albany Music Distributors, Inc. | www.albanymusic.net .

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Our-Town-Study-Guide.Pdf
STUDY GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS PERFORMANCE INFORMATION PAGE 3 TORNTON WILDER PAGE 4 THORNTON WILDER CHRONOLOGY PAGE 5 OUR TOWN: A BRIEF HISTORY PAGE 6 PLAY SYNOPSIS PAGE 7 CAST OF CHARACTERS PAGE 10 THE PULITZER PRIZE PAGE 11 OUR TOWN: A HISTORICAL TIMELINE PAGE 12 THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING PAGE 16 THEMES OF OUR TOWN PAGE 17 NEW HAMPSHIRE PAGE 18 SCENIC DESIGN PAGE 19 PROMPTS FOR DISCUSSION PAGE 21 AUDIENCE ETIQUETTE PAGE 22 STUDENT EVALUATION PAGE 23 TEACHER EVALUATION PAGE 24 New Stage Theatre Presents OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder Directed by Francine Thomas Reynolds Sponsored by Sanderson Farms Stage Manager Lighting Designer Scenic Designer Elise McDonald Brent Lefavor Dex Edwards Costume Designer Technical Director/Properties Lesley Raybon Richard Lawrence There will be one 10-minute intermission THE CAST Cast (in order of appearance) STAGE MANAGER Sharon Miles DR. GIBBS Larry Wells HOWIE NEWSOME Christan McLaurine JOE CROWELL, JR. Ben Sanders MRS. GIBBS Malaika Quarterman MRS. WEBB Kerri Sanders GEORGE GIBBS Cliff Miller * REBECCA GIBBS Mary Frances Dean WALLY WEBB Jeffrey Cornelius EMILY WEBB Devon Caraway* PROFESSOR WILLARD Amanda Dear MR. WEBB Yohance Myles* WOMAN #1 LaSharron Purvis SIMON STIMSON Jeff Raab WOMAN #2 Hope Prybylski WOMAN #3 Ashanti Alexander CONSTABLE WARREN Chris Roebuck MRS. SOAMES Joy Amerson SI CROWELL Alex Forbes SAM CRAIG Jake Bell JOE STODDARD James Anderson FARMER MCCARTY Peter James VIOLINIST Miranda Kunk *The actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Profes- sional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. THORNTON WILDER Thornton Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 17, 1897.
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The Guide A Theatergoer’s Resource Our Town By Thornton Wilder Education & Community Programs Staff Kelsey Tyler Education & Community Programs Director Clara Hillier Education Programs Coordinator RJ Hodde Community Programs Coordinator Matthew B. Zrebski Resident Teaching Artist Resource Guide Contributors Benjamin Fainstein Literary Manager Mary Blair Production Dramaturg & Literary Associate Nicholas Kessler Stage Door Teaching Artist Table of Contents Mikey Mann Synopsis . 2 Graphic Designer By the Numbers. 2 PCS’s 2015–16 Education & Community Programs are Overview . 2 generously supported by: Characters . 3 Profoundly Populist: Our Town History . 5 Questions . 5 Biography of the Playwright. 7 In His Own Words . 7 Contemporaries: Stella Adler On Thornton Wilder . 8 Writing Exercises . 9 PCS’s education programs are supported in part by a grant from the Performance Exercises . 9 Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. Stage Door Program . 10-12 with additional support from Craig & Y. Lynne Johnston Holzman Foundation Mentor Graphics Foundation Juan Young Trust Autzen Foundation and other generous donors. 1 “The life of a village against the life of the stars.” - Thornton Wilder describing Our Town Synopsis A meditation on small-town life, Our Town celebrates the marvel of everyday existence through the fictional citizens of one New England community at the beginning of the twentieth century. The play is conducted by it’s narrator, the Stage Manager of a theater in which the story is performed. It is divided into three distinct acts, covering commonplace and milestone moments in the lives of its characters: daily life, love and marriage, death and dying. Setting 42 degrees 40 minutes north latitude and 70 degrees 37 minutes west longitude Time May 7, 1901 (Act I) • July 7, 1904 (Act II) • Summer 1913 (Act III) Context 76 m.
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Reader Resources Our Town
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