It’s not uncommon for audience members of a Broadway play to head out for a bite after the show. But some who attend the current revival of the American classic “Our Town” at the Barrymore Theatre may find themselves feeling downright peckish by the play’s end.
Why? Because director Kenny Leon sought to compensate for the absence of props and scenery in the play as written by arranging to have familiar smells piped in to the theater at strategic intervals. As he explains to Playbill, “When you lose the props … your other senses are heightened.” In the third and final act, which includes a memory of breakfast, the aroma of frying bacon is detectable.
