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Thornton Wilder (play)
Release Date:
30 May 1977 (USA)
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Won Primetime Emmy.
Another 7 nominations
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A brave effort...flawed, but still quite good
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Hal Holbrook | ... | Stage manager |
 | Ned Beatty | ... | Dr. Gibbs |
| Sada Thompson | ... | Mrs. Gibbs |
 | Barbara Bel Geddes | ... | Mrs. Webb |
 | Glynnis O'Connor | ... | Emily Webb |
| Robby Benson | ... | George Gibbs |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Scott Atlas | ... | Wally Webb |
| Don Beddoe | ... | Const. Warren |
| Elizabeth Cheshire | ... | Rebecca Gibbs |
 | Ronny Cox | ... | Mr. Webb |
| David Cryer | ... | Simon Stimson |
| Charles Cyphers | ... | Sam Craig |
| Edmund Gaynes | ... | Choir member |
| Pamela Hall | ... | Choir member |
| John Houseman | ... | Prof. Willard (scenes deleted) |
| William Lanteau | ... | Howie Newsome |
 | Allen Price | ... | Joe Crowell Jr. |
| Charlotte Rae | ... | Mrs. Soames |
| Ford Rainey | ... | Joe Stoddard |
| Michael Sharrett | ... | Si Crowell |
| Rex Steven Sikes | ... | George's friend |
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120 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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The original Broadway production of "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder opened at Henry Miller's Theater on February 4, 1938, ran for 338 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1938.
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Version of "Producers' Showcase: Our Town (#2.1)" (1955)
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Having two of our favorite TV moms--Sada Thompson of Family and Barbara Bel Geddes of Dallas--in the roles of Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb was inspired casting. Charlotte Rae is adorable as the scatterbrained Mrs. Soames, and Robby Benson as George is appropriately naive and cute. The third act, where Emily returns briefly to life after dying in childbirth, must be difficult to perform convincingly, but Glynnis O'Connor beautifully conveys the many levels of emotion and meaning in this segment of the play.
This was intended as the "definitive" version of Our Town, and it could have been that. But the stylized stage sets are really hokey, and Hal Holbrook may be just a bit too "folksy" in his interpretation of the Stage Manager role (compared to Spalding Gray's more subdued performance in the 1989 version).
I love this play--and I like this version of it despite its flaws.