What is the importance of the information provided by Professor Willard in Our Townby Thornton Wilder? How does the audience react to this information?...

The Stage
Manager in byprovides background information for the town. All towns
across the United States have geographic differences, diversity in cultures, immigrants from
around the worldthe Stage Manager at every opportunity points out the similarities between
Grovers Corners and all of the other little towns in and around the United States in
 1901.

This kind of theater was experimental.  It was unique in American
Drama.  It was praised and awarded for its daring.  No other play had tried to encompass all of
these interesting and fun elements before.  No scenery, no properties, pantomiming in regular
life, a Stage Manager in front of the curtainthis was untried territory.  It was so thrilling
and so moving to see the progression through life of these two wonderful young people without
the need for all the properties, just two human beings falling in love.

What was the purpose of Professor Willard and his
mini-lecture? 

One of the ways that...