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Apr 15, 2014 - 5:21 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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And I'm sorry, I don't believe the dream ending ruins the experience. Yes, it's a compromise but I think it works.
According to an article written by producer Sol Lesser in the New York Times, Lesser worked very closely with Thornton Wilder to modify the play. Lesser wrote that Wilder was informed of all changes to the original play, and no change was made without his permission. Publicity materials contain much of the correspondence between Lesser and Wilder, including Wilder's consent to change the ending of the play.
In the original play, the character of Emily dies in childbirth. Wilder wrote Lesser: "Emily should live....In a movie you see the people so close 'to' that a different relation is established. In the theatre, they are halfway abstraction in an allegory, in the movie they are very concrete. So, insofar as the play is a generalized allegory, she dies-we die-they die; insofar as it's a concrete happening it's not important that she die; it is disproportionately cruel that she die. Let her live--the idea will have been imparted anyway."
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Hello Ray. Slightly off topic, but one of the memorable evenings at a Broadway Show for me was seeing 'OUR TOWN' for the very first time; other than this film I mean. Lucky because of the part of 'The Narrator' being played by Paul Newman.
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