Our Town Broadway Heads to Grover's Corners

On the morning of August 12, the Broadway cast of OUR TOWN hopped on busses and headed to Peterborough, New Hampshire - one of the inspirations for Wilder’s immortal, quintessential American town of Grover’s Corners and the setting for this play. For this incredible (and very meta) field trip, The Wilder Family gave every cast member a copy of Wilder’s celebrated short play, THE HAPPY JOURNEY FROM TRENTON TO CAMDEN. This is the letter that was included with each one:

Dear friends,

In 1931, Thornton Wilder wrote a series of one-act plays: little dramas that turned out to be a very big deal. In The Long Christmas Dinner and the rest, you can see him finding his voice, blossoming into the artist who would soon give the world Our Town.

The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden has always been one of the best-loved of those plays. Today, as you embark on your own journeys—the literal one to New Hampshire, the figurative one to Broadway—we thought this big-little play might be good company. So many of Wilder’s distinctive qualities are here: the simple surface that conceals great depths, the adventurous stagecraft, and the theme that all of life’s journeys pass more easily when we take them together.

Bon voyage! We can’t wait to see you what you find.

We can’t wait to see what YOU find and look forward to sharing this latest Our Town journey with all of you.