#26
Posted: 4/9/17 at 10:45pm
I think it may come down to Oslo, Indecent, and Dear Evan Hansen. It will probably end up going to Oslo.
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#27
Posted: 4/9/17 at 10:47pm
Dear Evan Hansen wont be winning, come on.
#28
Posted: 4/9/17 at 10:51pm
froote said: "Dear Evan Hansen wont be winning, come on.
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I don't think it will but it's popularity may get it a nomination. Frankly, I think Indecent should win, but it will most likely go to Oslo.
#29
Posted: 4/10/17 at 2:25pm
While I think Oslo is the safest bet here, I would love for something surprising to sneak in- something like Taylor Mac's 24 Decade History of Popular Music (which, it should be noted, won the Kennedy Prize for Drama).
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#30
Posted: 4/10/17 at 2:28pm
I Like Kad's Taylor Mac idea! However, I think SWEAT will win.
#31
Posted: 4/10/17 at 2:50pm
So, the announcement is about 15 minutes away. To those who have counted DEH out, I wouldn't be that sure as it certainly meets the criteria of being about American life. And for those who have counted Oslo in, I wouldn't be that sure either, for the same reason. While America as a country plays an important role, it's really not about American life. I'm not predicting anything, but I wouldn't be shocked if DEH comes away with it.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
#32
Posted: 4/10/17 at 2:53pm
Being about American life is not a hard and fast rule. Ruined won just a few years ago despite being set in and about people from the Congo.
Dear Evan Hansen meeting the preferred criteria and being popular doesn't make it a leading contender. The Pultizers, by and large, operate on their own metric, with very rare exceptions (such as last year and Hamilton).
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 4/10/17 at 02:53 PM
#33
Posted: 4/10/17 at 2:58pm
Kad said: "While I think Oslo is the safest bet here, I would love for something surprising to sneak in- something like Taylor Mac's 24 Decade History of Popular Music (which, it should be noted, won the Kennedy Prize for Drama).
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That's a fascinating idea...reminds me of the almost-winner from 1986, the multi-genre and multi-author the CIVIL warS, which was selected by the committee but didn't receive the prize.
"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
#34
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:07pm
ew Peggy Noonan. Happy for David Farethold.
#37
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:08pm
Sweat has won.
"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
#38
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:08pm
Sweat wins! Will this help the box office at all? I imagine not really.
Updated On: 4/10/17 at 03:08 PM
#40
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:09pm
They were never going to give it to Dear Evan Hansen. Awarding two mainstream musicals in a row isn't going to happen and they've already given it to Next to Normal which was a riskier version.
Updated On: 4/10/17 at 03:09 PM
#42
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:11pm
This makes Lynn Nottage the 8th playwright to receive multiple Pulitzers for Drama and the first to do so since August Wilson in 1990 and the first woman to do so, period.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 4/10/17 at 03:11 PM
#44
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:14pm
The other finalists were A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and The Wolves.
No Dear Evan Hansen.
#45
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:15pm
froote said: "The other finalists were A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and The Wolves.
No Dear Evan Hansen."
Those are fantastic finalists.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#46
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:16pm
I'm thrilled that Taylor Mac was a finalist for his exceptional work. And even if I don't think Sweat is as good as Intimate Apparel or By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, I still think she's one of our best dramatists, so if someone's going to win multiple times, I'm pleased it's her!
#47
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:19pm
Interesting that with the exception of Sweat, the other predicted potential candidates (Oslo, DEH, Indecent, A Life) are nowhere to be seen. Personally I thought Sweat was ridiculously weak, but I guess it's topicality carried it across the finish line.
"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
#48
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:23pm
Is Taylor Mac the first genderqueer Pulitzer winner?
That commentary award to she who shall not be named is awful.
Happy for Nottage, who is genuinely one of the nicest people I've ever met. Her drama was oddly prescient, too.
#49
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:27pm
It's too bad Indecent didn't make the list, I much preferred it to Sweat. The Wolves is a nice surprise!
#50
Posted: 4/10/17 at 3:29pm
BakerWilliams said: "Is Taylor Mac the first genderqueer Pulitzer winner?
That commentary award to she who shall not be named is awful.
Happy for Nottage, who is genuinely one of the nicest people I've ever met. Her drama was oddly prescient, too."
I don't think it's a stretch to assume Mac is the first genderqueer finalist (24 Decade History did not win, though it would've been my pick!)
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
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