Pulitzer Possibles?

[BustopherPhantom]

Pulitzer Possibles?#1

Posted: 2/22/08 at 3:40pm

What plays do you think have a chance of winning the Pulitzer this year?

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[Pippin]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#2

Posted: 2/22/08 at 3:43pm

none.

It's August: Osage County's to lose.

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

[lildogs]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#2

Posted: 2/22/08 at 3:44pm

August: Osage County--is there any doubt?

[CouldaWouldaShoulda]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#3

Posted: 2/22/08 at 3:47pm

August: Osage County, no contest.

"A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot." -- Patti LuPone

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#4

Posted: 2/22/08 at 3:47pm

I'm not a County-Hater, but there has to be something out there capable of pulling a Anna in the Tropics-upset, right?

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[BobbyBubby]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#5

Posted: 2/22/08 at 3:51pm

August has it in the bag.

[lildogs]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#6

Posted: 2/22/08 at 4:02pm

I doubt it Bustopher--kinda like when DOUBT won--plus I think Tracy has been on the short list before.

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#7

Posted: 2/22/08 at 4:16pm

I just figured there could be a sort of "This doesn't live up to the hype, we don't think it has enough depth, it's a potboiler, we're gonna vote for something else!" backlash or something.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[Pippin]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#8

Posted: 2/22/08 at 4:18pm

no, pretty much no one on this board has said "eh, it didn't live up to the hype"

there shouldn't even BE nominees this year.

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

[Yankeefan007]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#9

Posted: 2/22/08 at 4:27pm

Though it could also be a year like last, where the 3 choices were passed over in favor of Rabbit Hole.

[Roscoe]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#10

Posted: 2/22/08 at 4:34pm

You never know. There could always be some little play bouncing around in God Knows Where that comes in and beats it. Sure things have lost before. SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION, anyone?

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[lildogs]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#11

Posted: 2/22/08 at 4:43pm

Yeah, roscoe, but SIX DEGREES lost to YONKERS--far more accessible and written by the most commercially successful American playwright in history--I think it was as much of a Lifetime Achievement Award as anything. They were running neck and neck for the most part--and then Mercedes beat Stockard to the Tony...wtf?

Keep in mind these are the same people who picked HARVEY over THE GLASS MENAGERIE.

[DMsquared2]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#12

Posted: 2/22/08 at 4:46pm

BusterPhantonm, you think Anna in the Tropics getting the Pulitzer was an upset?

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#13

Posted: 2/22/08 at 5:56pm

you think Anna in the Tropics getting the Pulitzer was an upset?

Yes, I do. A play without a New York production running against Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out... and the Pulitzer committee didn't even see a production of Anna: they read it instead.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[Brick]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#14

Posted: 2/22/08 at 6:05pm

AUGUST. Hands down.

[AC126748]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#15

Posted: 2/22/08 at 6:11pm

There are no sure things when it comes to the Pulitzer Prize. Time and time again something has come out of left field and usurped the award from the predicted favorite. I would say August: Osage County has a strong chance, but I wouldn't go about engraving the medal just yet.

"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

[theaterkid1015]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#16

Posted: 2/22/08 at 6:28pm

I'm gonna go with "Pirate Queen".

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

[scaryclowns223]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#17

Posted: 2/22/08 at 6:50pm

Xanadu.

Because, really deep down, on some very subliminal level, it is a metaphor for racial violence in Africa.

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#18

Posted: 2/22/08 at 7:12pm

Because, really deep down, on some very subliminal level, it is a metaphor for racial violence in Africa.

Oh thank God, I thought I was the only one who figured that out.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[Roscoe]

re: Pulitzer Possibles?#19

Posted: 2/22/08 at 8:05pm

Point taken lildog, but LOST IN YONKERS didn't get the avalanche of rave reviews that SIX DEGREES got, and wasn't even really a contender Pulitzer-wise. And does anyone at all think that LOST is even one-tenth the play that SIX DEGREES is? And Neil Simon had been up for a Pulitzer for BROADWAY BOUND, but the jury was overruled and the prize that year went to FENCES.

Anyway. If they gave it to that tired ripoff of Shepard called TOPDOG/UNDERDOG they'll give it to anything.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/