Books Like Our Town by Thornton Wilder | Suggesting Reading

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Also by Thornton Wilder and included with Our Town m Three Plays by Thornton Wilder are The Skin of Our Teeth and The Matchmaker. The Skin of Our Teeth focuses on the Antrobus family from Excelsior, New Jersey. Together they endure the Ice Age and the Great Flood, as well as the malicious acts of son Henry, whose name is changed to Cain after the "accidental" death of his brother. This play earned Wilder his third Pulitzer Prize. The Matchmaker had an earlier life as The Merchant ofYonkers: A Farce in Four Acts (1938). The title character of the play is Dolly Levi, a worldly-wise widow who attempts to dissuade an uncharitable merchant from opposing the marriage of his niece to an impoverished artist. In 1964, Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman adapted The Matchmaker as the popular musical Hello, Dolly!

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