An example of each is found in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, in the characters of George Gibbs and Emily Webb.
Her first major stage role was playing the gossip in Our Town by Thornton Wilder (in which role she made her film debut in 1940 in the film by the same name).
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Merande appeared onscreen in bit parts starting in the early 1930s and had her first substantial role in 1940, reprising her role as the gossip in the film adaptation of Our Town.
Eventually, she reached Broadway, first appearing as an understudy to Martha Scott in Our Town, and subsequently starring in the domestic comedy, Claudia.
It was not until the 1930s and into her forties that her stage career took off in the theater, notably playing Mrs. Gibbs, the small town matron who dreams of Paris, in the original production of Our Town.
Both gender examples of the "Next Door" archetype are quintessentially addressed with Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the characters of Emily Webb and George Gibbs or in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer series within the characters of Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher.
Theater offered a better outlet and Tedrow appeared on Broadway even through her eighties, in such productions as Our Town and Pygmalion.
Performances by the school have included "My Fair Lady", "Our Town", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and "Guys and Dolls" (2009).
All along, the story has been narrated (à la “Our Town”) by a warm, wise, seemingly omniscient old man named Thomas who appears periodically and comments on the events unfolding in Evergreen.
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He continued to appear on the New York stage both on Broadway (Three Sisters, Two Shakespearean Actors, Arms and the Man) and off-Broadway (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Glass Menagerie, Sly Fox and Our Town).
Schmidt and Jones wrote a musical of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and it took them thirteen years to write, only to have the rights pulled by Wilder's nephew.
The single was featured in the episodes "Kill or Be Killed" and "Our Town" of The Vampire Diaries.
The produced acclaimed productions of Neil Simon's "The Good Doctor", "The Rocky Horror Show", "Our Town", "The Cradle Will Rock",
Unlike many community theaters, Theatre Tulsa managed to remain active during the entire duration of the Depression and even became the first community theater in America to produce Our Town by Thornton Wilder in 1939.
DJ Graffiti received the title "Best DJ" in 2010 by Real Detroit Weekly which called him "our town’s premier DJ".
In 2008 he directed two productions at Ross Creek: Our Town by Thortnon Wilder and Jerome: The Historical Spectacle, which he commissioned from Ami McKay, author of The Birth House.
OT: Our Town is a 2002 documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.