2016 Pulitzer
2016 Pulitzer
billyelliotfan123
Leading Actor Joined: 10/24/09
#12016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/29/15 at 2:54pm
What shows do you think will be finalists for the 2016 Pulitzer? I know obviously Hamilton has a great shot at winning but what else from this year has been worthy? Perhaps Gloria?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#22016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/29/15 at 3:03pm
It's too early to tell, as they award the Pulitzers for the 2015 year in April 2016 and it's not yet August, therefore we have 5 months of plays to consider.
But the obvious front runner is Hamilton.
#32016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/29/15 at 3:07pm
It seems almost inconceivable that the prize will not go to Hamilton.
#42016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/29/15 at 3:27pm
Hamilton will probably win.
And everyone on the backlash train will whine incessantly about it.
....but the world goes 'round
Updated On: 7/30/15 at 03:27 PM
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#62016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 12:44am
I agree, I think Fun Home is considerably more important than Hamilton but it is what it is.
#72016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 1:03am
I don't know why people constantly feel the need to make one show better than the other. Fun Home and Hamilton are both important; we have an abundance of riches at the moment and I feel sorry for those of you who can't appreciate that. That said, Hamilton is a masterful work about the American experiment and it is no surprise it is a lock for the Pulitzer.
#82016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 1:11am
I don't think there's a need to compare two radically different pieces of theater as well. I just happen to favor one over the other. I however am not saying that Hamilton isn't a masterful piece of theater, because I'm sure once I see it, I'll completely understand the Pulitzer hype.
#92016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 1:18am
Matt, thanks for that, although I wonder how you can "favor" one when you haven't seen the other.
stageagent13
Stand-by Joined: 12/11/06
#112016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 1:49am
I think Gloria has a chance of being a finalist. I would also nominate Significant Other, but I don't think it would be.
#142016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 9:42am
I really hope the smug, overrated Gloria isn't a finalist, but I fear it will be. It's been imbued with an unearned sense of importance by Ben Brantley when it's really just a shabby little shocker. (God, I sound like After Eight this morning).
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#152016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 9:50amI'm not so sure Gloria will be a finalist. The committee didn't even choose An Octoroon as a finalist, when IMO it should have won the prize. They aren't BJJ fans.
#162016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 10:01am
It's very difficult to predict what the committee will choose.
That being said, I would be shocked if Hamilton were not a finalist / the winner next year. As of now, I don't think there's anything else- play or musical- that can compare or lines up with the award's mission as well.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#172016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 10:34am
"I'm not so sure Gloria will be a finalist. The committee didn't even choose An Octoroon as a finalist, when IMO it should have won the prize. They aren't BJJ fans."
An Octoroon is a complicated work, whereas Gloria is more straightforward in its intentions, which is why I think it might fare better with the Pulitzer committee. It also deals with issues that might be appealing to the committee.
Like others have said, I put Hamilton in the "glaring front-runner" category.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#182016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 10:46amThe committee also loves to pull works that have not been seen in NYC yet, so who knows?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#192016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 10:50am
The Pulitzer Prize community usually goes with something way less obvious, while the frontrunners usually get nominated.
#202016 Pulitzer
Posted: 7/30/15 at 10:58am
"The Pulitzer Prize community usually goes with something way less obvious, while the frontrunners usually get nominated."
Define "usually". More often than not, an obvious choice wins. This is particularly true with plays and musicals that transcend popularity and relevance within the theater community and experience a moment of cultural relevance -- and Hamilton is certainly in that category. Think of August: Osage County, Doubt, Rent, Proof, Angels in America, etc., in this category.
Honestly, since 2000, I would argue there have only been two total surprise, out of left field winners: Anna in the Tropics and Water by the Spoonful, both of which won before they'd received a New York production.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 7/30/15 at 10:58 AM
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
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