NEXT TO NORMAL wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama- Page 2

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:27pm

I'm so happy for them! I really thought Next Fall was going to take it. Surprised In the Next Room was a finalist though...

[Blockhead24]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:30pm

wow didn't see this coming..so happy for them and relieved that Next Fall didn't win

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:30pm

I am happily suprised about this. I haven't seen the show, and I haven't listened to the cast recording (I plan to, thought), but I still can understand where this came from. I wonder what the boards thinking was in putting it into contention. it's still strange that Foote wasn't even nominated after pretty much everyone believed that he would be.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:31pm

Something about this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. O well, at least In the Heights didn't win last year (it was a finalist!).

~Steven

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:34pm

Also, as a sort of side topic...
Is the deal with Next to Normal and In the Heights winning/being nominated that they changed between their Off-Broadway and Broadway runs? I'm assuming that if changes were made between the two productions that it can be nominated, like Sunday was. It's just a bit confusing.

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:40pm

To prior posters: Yank and Scottsboro Boys were not eligible this year. Next year.

I've never been as crazy about Next to Normal as everyone else, but I guess I'm just thrilled Next Fall didn't win. I would have preferred In the Next Room.

[vodkastinger]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:45pm

Edna,

I believe that works are considered for their 'penultimate' production by the Pulitzer Board. If it is indicated that a show has a future life (with future revisions) and the producers do not submit it, it is not considered. The Pulitzer Board wants to consider the version that will be published and produced for years to come, not a work-in-process.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:54pm

Elixer, I edited my original post and I had mentioned "Caroline or Change". I realized that "I Am My Own Wife" won that year, which I didn't see so I can't compare. But I remember thinking as I left the theater that Caroline should have won one that year. For me Caroline was the best thing I have seen since Sweeney Todd.

[tazber]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:55pm

I thought this was a joke at first.

Talk about lowering standards.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 3:57pm

I have to disagree with mostly everyone else. This is very, very, very well-deserved.

Congrats to everyone involved in this little show that could...and did. Updated On: 4/12/10 at 03:57 PM

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:03pm

so happy for them

[MeggilyWeggily08]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:17pm

I couldn't be happier about this. The book, the story, the lyrics...so well deserved. I don't understand why people are disagreeing about it, or saying they thought it was a joke. I would have been surprised if it hadn't won, I didn't really favor any other noms.

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:20pm

"Take that billy Elliot"

Harris007

"harris007, although they stretched the rules for Ruined, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is awarded "for a distinguished play by an American playwright, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life." Billy Elliot wasn't written by Americans, and certainly doesn't deal with American life."

Givesmevoice

Givesmevoice, you missed harris007 sense of humour there, think the latter has a British gene in him somewhere.

Congratulations to Next to Normal much deserved Pulitzer Award, s terrific story, which also makes great theatre, one of the best American musicals of the decade.

Come on all you curmudgeons, I am sure Scottsboro Bro and Yank will have deserved recognition next year.

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:23pm

So happy for N2N! This show so deserves this award. I was just thinking about this the other day. Congratulations!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:26pm

And I'm guessing whoever said YANK should've won was joking. Because the day YANK wins the Pulitzer Prize is the day pigs fly.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:31pm

Congratulations to them! This is well-deserved, in my opinion.

Seriously....when did so many n2n haters appear on the board?

[Brick]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:32pm

Holy SH*T.

Didn't see that coming.

I new NEXT FALL wouldn't take it. They've been going for less conventional choices in the recent years, particularly if you look at the runner-ups and how few of them were on Broadway.

No surprise for VIBRATOR PLAY. Ruhl's a critic darling. She'll have one soon.

ORPHAN"S CYCLE was gunning for it, which is never good.

And uncageg, I agree completely CAROLINE should have won or been a runner-up. It's not perfect, but I think its the definition of an American play dealing with American lives, and where personal and political events collide.

Again, Wow for NEXT TO NORMAL.

[BroadwayChica]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:33pm

what a joke.

And for the record, you don't have to be a hater (which admittedly, I am) to acknowledge that, especially in a year with so many strong dramas, Next to Normal did not deserve to win the Pulitzer.

[dg22894]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:34pm

This is great very deserving show.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:35pm

What won the year CAROLINE was eligible? It should have won for sure, unless some major work I'm forgetting about won.

And I too think it's ridiculous that THE VIBRATOR PLAY was a finalist. I was not a fan of it. But it is nice to see two relatively unknown works get recognized, even as finalists. I hadn't heard about either of them until fifteen minutes ago.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:40pm

Caroline would've been eligible in 2005, right? (whoops I'm an idiot and read the wrong list...) Doubt won that year. Updated On: 4/12/10 at 04:40 PM

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:40pm

Either Anna in the Tropics or I Am My Own Wife or Doubt.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:42pm

And for the record, you don't have to be a hater (which admittedly, I am) to acknowledge that, especially in a year with so many strong dramas, Next to Normal did not deserve to win the Pulitzer.

What strong dramas? The Vibrator Play? Next Fall?

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:45pm

I almost teared up when I found out. Truly fantastic news.

[clever name]

Posted: 4/12/10 at 4:52pm

I can't stop smiling. I'm thrilled this won!