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I saw the production at Marriott Lincolnshire back in the eighties.  It was FABULOUS!  I have remembered it ever since and kept an eye out for the soundtrack.  In seeing this site and this message board for the first time today, I gave finally learned why that show dropped off the end of the world.

our Town was a play  my high school put on.  Of course we had read and studied the play in class as well.  I always remembered the play with affection, but it was with the romanticized mind of a seventeen year old.

when the musical came around, I was now in my thirties.  I saw the story and the production through the eyes of an adult now, while still remembering what I had formerly felt and thought.  It was a surreal experience, truly the measure of a classic, I think, when you can enjoy the same thing at different times of your life but get totally different experiences out of it because YOU bring something different to the experience.

and the songs and staging brought so much to it too.  It was extraordinary.  I wrote a fan-letter to the producers saying all this and they wrote me back saying they had posted my nice letter backstage for all the cast to enjoy and they sent me two free tickets to see it again!

i wasn't dating anyone at the time, so a friend from work went with me.  She had never heard of Our Town but seemed to be enjoying the musical.  I thought.  Until, at the end (remember, the third act is 'Death'?format=auto&width=600 I looked over at her and she was just sobbing and sobbing.  "You didn't tell me it was so sad!" She managed to  choke this out between mopping her eyes and blowing her nose.  Poor girl!

definately worth a see, and I felt the music and songs truly enlarged the original wonderful pkay.

i am sorry to not be able to see it again and even more sorry to not be able to point my musical-loving friends at it so they can see it too.