The Stage Manager dismisses the audience for intermission. Back upstairs in the Gibbs house, George and Rebecca continue to look at the moon, and Rebecca wonders about a letter her friend received, with an address line that included unnecessary information about the girl's location in the solar system. Webb and the constable's perfunctory efforts to look after him. Webb walks home from work and runs into the drunken Simon, who resists Mr. Gibbs also calls George downstairs and reprimands him for not helping his mother with chores.
Gibbs comes home from choir practice and tells her husband that Simon Stimson, the choirmaster, was drunk again. Emily gazes at the moon while George moons at Emily. When the day resumes, it is evening the town choir sings the hymn, "Blessed be the tie that binds." George and Emily sit atop of ladders, representing their second floor bedrooms, as Emily helps George with his homework. A copy of Our Town will be included in the time capsule, so that future people will know how the citizens of Grover's Corners lived, loved, and died. The Stage Manager pauses the narrative and tells about the time capsule that will be placed in the cornerstone of the new bank in Grover's Corners. She agrees to help him with his homework in the future. Emily and George are on their way home from school, and George tells Emily that he can see her at her desk from his window. When the interview has finished, the Stage Manager brings us back to the day at hand. Webb about alcohol abuse, love of culture, and social awareness in the community. Webb, who give us a socioeconomic account of the town. He introduces two experts on Grover's Corners: a professor and the town newspaper editor Mr. Webb talk outside about their husbands and about travel until the Stage Manager interrupts the scene.
Both mothers come downstairs and prepare breakfast, while their children - Emily and Wally Webb, and George and Rebecca Gibbs - get ready for school.
Gibbs is on his way home from delivering twins. The Stage Manager walks us through the opening of a day in 1901, and the morning rituals of the Webb and Gibbs families. He tells us that we will be considering the town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire: an ordinary town at the turn of the twentieth century with no particular claim to fame. Our Town opens with "no curtain, no scenery." The Stage Manager, who serves as a narrator and an intermediary between the audience and the characters, introduces the play and the production.
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