David Cromer's OUR TOWN Looks Headed to New York

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that David Cromer's hit Chicago production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" looks headed for Off-Broadway in a few weeks.

Tribune scribe Chris Jones reveals that "details have yet to be released, but Cromer and the New York producer Scott Morfee are currently casting a commercial, New York version of Cromer's heavily conceptual "Our Town," which stars the director himself in the role of the narrator. This production of "Our Town" was first produced last May in the basement of the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park by the theater company known as The Hypocrites".

Morfee and Cromer have a long relationship; Morfee produced an Off-Broadway run of "Orson's Shadow" under Cromer's direction, as well as the recent New York stand of Next Theatre's "Adding Machine", explains the Tribune.

Producers Morfee told the paper yesterday, Thursday afternoon that the Chicago actors in the original production had been invited to audition for the New York show. He also said that the show will take place in a "gutted" Barrow Street Theatre, thus retaining as much of the original ambiance as possible.

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