#1
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:00pm
Rabbit Hole.
You should be hearing officially in a few minutes.
Thoughts?
You should be hearing officially in a few minutes.
Thoughts?
#2
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:01pm
If it's true, I'm VERY happy.
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#3
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:02pm
I wonder if MOTHER MAY I FLIRT WITH DANGER that Tori Spelling Lifetime Movie would have won the Pulitzer if it had started as a stage play.
#4
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:03pm
Good for Rabbit Hole. Very deserving of it. A very profound work.
#5
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:04pm
I know Tori'd have won a Tony as the cheerleader who gets killed by Kelli Martin.
That said, I bet it's Spring Awakening.
That said, I bet it's Spring Awakening.
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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 03:04 PM
#6
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:04pm
Darn it! I was totally rooting for Spring Awakening......well, Rabbit Hole is great as an American work, but I....:P Darn. Oh well.
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#7
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:05pm
I still maintain that SPRING AWAKENING wasn't eligible as it was based on an existing play...
#8
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:06pm
RABBIT HOLE was great, but hardly Pulitzer worthy.
But still, it's better than most of the other finalists. Just thankful that SPRING AWAKENING didn't win.
But still, it's better than most of the other finalists. Just thankful that SPRING AWAKENING didn't win.
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#10
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:08pm
Oh come on. I knew it would win, but I honestly was hoping for something else.
#11
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:08pm
SIX DEGREES never won, but RABBIT HOLE? Sorry, apples one years, oranges another, but I don't think RH is a Pulitzer, as affecting as it is.
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#12
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:10pm
I think it's obvious that they were pressured to select a winner this year. It wouldn't look GREAT to have 2 "no award" years in a row.
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#14
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:11pm
Interesting. Sort of falls in line with the Pultzer habit of recognizing a safe, middle of the road mainstream entry by a playwright who had originally made his reputation on much more unconventional, challenging work (Suzan Lori-Parks, Nilo Cruz, et al). Lindsay-Abaire's FUDDY MEERS and KIMBERLY AKIMBO are far more accomplished and clever works than RABBIT HOLE, that displayed a unique artistic voice missing from the latter work, so OF COURSE the Pulitzer honors this play.
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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 03:11 PM
#15
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:12pm
For 2006: "Nominated as finalists in [Drama] were: "Miss Witherspoon" by Christopher Durang, "The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow" by Rolin Jones, and "Red Light Winter" by Adam Rapp. "
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#17
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:14pm
None of which deserved to win. "No Award" was the right call (though Bruce Norris' PAIN & THE ITCH was apparently eligible that year and frankly should have won).
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#18
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:15pm
from Playbill.com:
The Pulitzer jury had nominated three plays — Orpheus X by Rinde Eckert; Bulrusher by Eisa Davis; and Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue by Quiara Alegria Hudes — however, the board decided to bypass the nominations and choose a play that hadn't been nominated by the jury.
The jury included Ben Brantley (chief drama critic, New York Times), Kimberly W. Benston (Professor of English at Haverford College), Karen D'Souza (Drama Critic for the San Jose Mercury News), Rohan Preston (Theatre critic for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul), Paula Vogel (playwright, Professor of English at Brown University).
The Pulitzer jury had nominated three plays — Orpheus X by Rinde Eckert; Bulrusher by Eisa Davis; and Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue by Quiara Alegria Hudes — however, the board decided to bypass the nominations and choose a play that hadn't been nominated by the jury.
The jury included Ben Brantley (chief drama critic, New York Times), Kimberly W. Benston (Professor of English at Haverford College), Karen D'Souza (Drama Critic for the San Jose Mercury News), Rohan Preston (Theatre critic for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul), Paula Vogel (playwright, Professor of English at Brown University).
#20
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:18pm
the 2007 nominees, according to the website:
Nominated as finalists in this category were: “Orpheus X” by Rinde Eckert, “Bulrusher” by Eisa Davis, and “Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue” by Quiara Alegría Hudes.
Nominated as finalists in this category were: “Orpheus X” by Rinde Eckert, “Bulrusher” by Eisa Davis, and “Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue” by Quiara Alegría Hudes.
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#21
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:19pm
Nice to see that the Board, after all these years, STILL has no taste. Why go to all the trouble of having a jury if you're going to ignore their recommendations?
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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 03:19 PM
#22
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:19pm
Here's a question. What about Grey Gardens? Yes, I know I've been quite passionate about it (perhaps too passionate) but it at least deserved to be considered. What a bold idea. They took a documentary and made it into an extremely well structured, well crafted and overall entertaining and thought provoking musical. It would have been a bolder choice.
#23
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:21pm
I'm sure it was considered at some point.
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#24
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:24pm
1) Grey Gardens reviews were more raves for Ebersole and Wilson than for the show itself;
2) HUGE chunks of dialogue from Act Two are word-for-word from the documentary -- that alone could disqualify it
3) I, for one (and many of the critics) felt that Act I was vastly inferior to Act II and frankly should have been cut in half or even tossed out entirely.
There's some nice stuff in that show but it's hardly Pulitzer-worthy material (and much of the best stuff was cribbed from the doc).
2) HUGE chunks of dialogue from Act Two are word-for-word from the documentary -- that alone could disqualify it
3) I, for one (and many of the critics) felt that Act I was vastly inferior to Act II and frankly should have been cut in half or even tossed out entirely.
There's some nice stuff in that show but it's hardly Pulitzer-worthy material (and much of the best stuff was cribbed from the doc).
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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 03:24 PM
#25
Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:25pm
Not Pulitzer worthy, but while we're on the subject, neither was anything else this year.
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