Pulitzer Prize-winning drama 'Our Town’ kicks off CCM’s 2021-22 Play Series

UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) opens its 2021-22 CCMONSTAGE Play Series with Thornton Wilders’ Our Town, running Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2021 with a preview performance on Wednesday, Sept. 29. An American classic, Our Town follows two Grover’s Corners families as they experience love, life and loss — reminding us of the universal experiences we all share as we move through the highs and lows of life.

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, Our Town shares the story of two neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, in the fictional village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire between 1901 and 1930. Narrated by a “stage manager,” the production depicts the simple daily lives of the Webb and Gibbs families as they fall in love, marry and eventually die. The audience is introduced to the various characters, their relationships and the challenges that follow in three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.”

The play is “an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life,” said Thornton. It builds into an exploration of the human experience, from trivial details to life-changing moments.

“Our lives are full of trivial details. Getting to work on time, what to cook for dinner, soccer practice, forgotten emails, phone data, haircuts,” says CCM Acting Professor Brant Russell, director of Our Town. “But if there is a more perfect time than right now to reflect upon the deep satisfaction that trivial details and brief interactions can provide, I don’t know what it is. When our lives are circumscribed by our collective duty to each other, and when many of the trivial details that characterize ‘normal life’ are taken away from us, we long for normalcy. When our world becomes only as large as a laptop screen, we long for the breadth of what we once considered routine. Restaurants, shopping, the theater.

The 2021-22 CCMONSTAGE Play Series presents Our Town on Sept. 29 (preview)- Oct. 3, 2021, at Patricia Corbett Theater. Tickets are on sale now through the CCM Box Office; student discounts are available.

By Thornton Wilder

“Our Town” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

• 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29 (preview) 
• 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30
• 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1
• 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2
• 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3

Patricia Corbett Theater, CCM Village 
University of Cincinnati

Single tickets prices start at $32.50; preview performance ticket prices start at $15.50. Student discounts and group rates are also available. Tickets can be purchased in person at the CCM Box Office, over the telephone at 513-556-4183 or online now through our e-box office.

Learn about additional ticket options for current CCM students.

CCM is located on the campus of the University of Cincinnati. Please visit ccm.uc.edu/directions for detailed driving directions to CCM Village.

Parking is available in UC’s CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit uc.edu/parking for more information on parking rates.

For detailed maps and directions, please visit uc.edu/visitors.

Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust 
Scholarship and Resident Artist Sponsor

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 
CSO/CCM Diversity Fellowship Sponsor

The Corbett Endowment at CCM 
Dance Department Sponsor 
All-Steinway School Sponsor

Louise H. & David S. Ingalls Foundation, Inc. 
Community Partners

The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation, Ritter & Randolph, LLC, Corporate Counsel 
Visiting Artists & Thinking About Music Sponsor

ArtsWave: Funding Arts, Fueling Community 
CCMpower: Friends and Alumni Fueling the Future of the Arts 
CCMONSTAGE ONLINE Broadcast Sponsors

Dr. & Mrs. Carl G. Fischer 
Musical Theatre Department Sponsor

Genevieve Smith 
Opera Production Sponsor

Rafael and Kimberly de Acha 
Opera D’Arte Sponsor

An Anonymous Donor 
Estate of Mr. William A. Friedlander 
Mrs. William A. Friedlander 
Dr. Randolph L. Wadsworth 
Judith Schonbach Landgren and Peter Landgren  
Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Santen 
Elizabeth C.B. & Paul G. Sittenfeld+ 
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman 
Dr. & Mrs. Theodore W. Striker 
Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer 
Ariel Quartet Sponsors

Jan Rogers 
Willard and Jean Mulford Charitable Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation 
Choral Studies Sponsors

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn 
Orchestral Sponsor

Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation 
Starling Pre-Collegiate Sponsor 
Starling Strings Sponsor

Dr. Timothy E. and Janet L. Johnson 
Thom Miles and Roberta Gary 
Organ Department Sponsors

Louis and Susan Meisel 
Piano Department Sponsor

Richard E. Thornburgh 
Edward Donovan and Cheryl Carter 
Jeff Thomas Catering 
The Castleberry Family 
KMK Law 
Sandra & Stephen Joffe 
Paula Boggs Muething & Brian Muething 
Patti Myers & Alan Flaherty
Trish & Rick Bryan 
Prestige AV & Creative Services 
Graeter’s Ice Cream 
CCMpower 
The CCM Harmony Fund: Challenging Hate & Prejudice through the Performing Arts 
Event Sponsors

Buddy Rogers Music 
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