Five Best and Three Worst Plays to Ever Win the Pultizer- Page 2

[VIETgrlTerifa]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 12:45pm

Margo, the more I think about FIORELLO!, the more it pisses me off. It really in incredible that it beat out everything that came out that season for the Pulitzer.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 12:49pm

SHADOW BOX was Cristofer's only play to reach Broadway. He's basically been a screenwriter in Hollywood ever since (Gia, The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities), plus occasionally taking acting and directing gigs (he was an actor before he was a writer).

Updated On: 4/11/07 at 12:49 PM

[popculture37]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 12:54pm

I think both Harvey and Anna in the Tropics are underrated. Harvey suffers from the fact that people see it as merely a light comedy and so lots of high school drama clubs and community theaters put on fun little productions of it-not a bad thing in itself but it does make people forget the psychological depth it has. (You Can't Take It With You is another Pulitzer winner that suffers from this problem, but I think it too is a magnificent, moving piece of theater even if it is a bit cliche in spots.) And Anna has been performed so few times that it is too early to make the claim that it doesn't work on stage, as some think. All of Nilo Cruz's works are very poetic, not especially plot-driven pieces, but I have seen them work and Anna could too.
Other well-deserved awards are Angels in America and both of Wilder's wins (for Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth.) I've never really understood why How I Learned to Drive is thought of so highly, although that might just be because I saw a terrible production of it.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 1:01pm

Worst: YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA...Foote has written much better plays
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[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 1:02pm

I absolutely adore HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, largely due to seeing the original, perhaps definitive production starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse, directed by Mark Brokaw. It was a great production of a heck of a piece of writing, but it's a very difficult piece and I imagine very easy to mess up (the constant shifts back and forth in time and tone are extremely challenging to pull off completely successfully to say the least).

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 1:58pm

I think Lost In Yonkers won because they felt sorry that Neil Simon hadn't won. I think he should have been awarded for "The Odd Couple".

Did Lillian Hellman never make the list? I would have liked to have seen "The Little Foxes" on the list, but I guess "Abe Lincoln" beat it out.

I question "Crimes of the Heart" being on the list. I love the play but I don't think it's brilliant.

I think "Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune" should be on the list. I guess that year it was up against "Fences" but I still think it's a beautiful play.