They shut Main Street to traffic at 4 p.m., and worked until 3 a.m., hammering together the stage and turning off the town bell, so it would not ring during Mr. Romney's speech.
Later this month, Heilmann and Bell will each open a decades-spanning summer solo show at Hauser & Wirth's enormous Los Angeles gallery; and while he was in town, Bell stopped by for a chat.
The ringing of the town bell from a white-steepled church on Main Street has been a venerated sound for nearly a century in this 320-year-old community of about 3,000 people.
These included the idle unit button and town bell.
He died of an apparent heart attack while ringing the town bell, shortly after rescuing three drowning men when Andrew was three.
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The idea, according to the festival's Web site, is to encourage the nation "to ring thousands of bells at the same time, whether school bells, church bells, town hall bells, bicycle bells or doorbells".
His particular brand of buoyancy found its public expression in more than thirty musicals, among them "On the Town," "Wonderful Town," "Bells Are Ringing," and "Singin' in the Rain," whose popularity helped give postwar America an exhilarating backbeat of promise.
He did talk about his boyhood, saying his memories include "snow, jingle bells, Christmas carolers going from house to house, sleighs in the streets, town bells ringing, nativity plays".
Instead it was a matinee memorial for the lyricist Adolph Green, who died on Oct. 24 at age 87 and who, with his partner, Betty Comden, wrote the lyrics for some of Broadway's most revered musicals, including "On the Town," "Wonderful Town," "Bells Are Ringing" and "Peter Pan".
When the show was over, and the audience had heard many marvellous songs from such shows as "On the Town," "Wonderful Town," "Bells Are Ringing," "Two on the Aisle," and the film "Singin' in the Rain," I asked Comden which song meant the most to her. " 'Some Other Time,'" she said.
