Our Town, it seems, was recently turned into an opera by none other than Ned Rorem, an openly gay composer. According to the press, two other queer composers - Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein - tried to get Thornton Wilder to sign on to an Our Town opera during his lifetime, but the playwright refused. (It's interesting that all these queers were enamored of such a heterosexual play.) But Tappan Wilder,
Our Town, the opera
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You know what's funny? I never liked "Our Town"; and, further, I never bothered to figure out why. It was required reading in high school...I'm sure we discussed it. As well, I've seen a couple productions of it; one high school, one done by a community theater on Guam.
Now, I'm thinking, I should reread it and figure out why I never liked it.
Your synopsis tells me I'll probably like Thornton Wilder in your play much better than I liked him through Our Town.
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