Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer- Page 3
Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
#50re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 2:02am
It is tough call between Falsettos and Angels
You think so? I guess it depends on the way you see it. I just find ANGELS IN AMERICA to be one of the finest pieces of American literature, it's so epic and yet so personal, it is about the community but it's also about the individual, it covers SO many themes effectively without getting confused or muddled and without being apologetic. I think it's a play that beyond the Pulitzer, it should have earned Kushner a Nobel Prize (especially if you also take CAROLINE, OR CHANGE into consideration). I find it THAT brilliant.
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#51re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 2:05amAnd, ray, especially when you factor in that fact that the Pulitzer is supposed to honor works that examine American life...I can think of few works that do that as broadly yet as intimately as ANGELS, as you said.
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Updated On: 2/27/08 at 02:05 AM
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#52re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 2:15amI do agree with you ray that Angels is a superior work, I just have such a strong emotional reaction to Falsettos that my personal feelings for the show overwhelm my judgement a little:)
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#53re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 7:48amPossible that March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland might have been considered when they were separate shows? Lost in Yonkers won the Pulitzer in 1991, when Falsettoland first opened. I'd have given the Pulitzer to Falsettoland over Lost in Yonkers, but would have given it to Six Degrees of Separation over any of them.
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#54re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 8:21amWhat about Parade?
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#56re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:43am
As much as I don't like Parade's score (just not my cup of tea), it probably was Pulitzer-worthy
Also-
Grey Gardens
Carousel
Gypsy-shocked it didn't win
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#57re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:10am
Parade
Caroline, or Change
Falsettoland
I would say Ragtime if it had a better book. I'm not sure Carousel's adaptation of Liliom really transformed the story enough into something considered uniquely "American".
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#58re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:14amWasn't "Cradle Will Rock" written in the Pre-Pulitzer era?
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#59re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:18am
>Wasn't "Cradle Will Rock" written in the Pre-Pulitzer era?<
No. Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded since around 1917 or 1918. EDIT: Why Marry? in 1918 was the first play awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. (I had mistakenly put O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon as the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, in 1920).
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#60re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:26am
I'd like to put my vote in for Caroline or Change.
Should have won, hands down.
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#61re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:26amHow to Succeed most definitely deserved the Pulitzer it won.
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#62re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:58amWhile Wicked is my favorite modern Broadway musical, it would and SHOULD never win the pulitzer. It's not the right kind of show, dramatically. I think anything R&H ever did is worthy. Also, maybe Guys and Dolls? It is very American. I'm not sure lol.
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#63re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 12:18pm
Caroline, or Change
Ragtime
Parade
I wish I understood what warrants Grey Garden's deserving of the award?
#64re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 12:35pmCaroline or Change
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#66re: Musicals That Deserved the Pulitzer
Posted: 2/27/08 at 1:07pm
HOW TO SUCCEED.....must've been a leeeeean year.
FIORELLO? Who knows if its worth it, because the damned thing is NEVER revived! Great music, tho.
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