Pulitzer Prize Winner

[BBBoy]

Pulitzer Prize Winner#1

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:00pm

Rabbit Hole.

You should be hearing officially in a few minutes.

Thoughts?

[FOAnatic]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#2

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:01pm

If it's true, I'm VERY happy.

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

[Michael Bennett]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#2

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.

[Yankeefan007]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#3

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:03pm

Good for Rabbit Hole. Very deserving of it. A very profound work.

[doodlenyc]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#4

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.

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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 03:04 PM

[Katurian2]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#5

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.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

[Michael Bennett]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#6

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:05pm

I still maintain that SPRING AWAKENING wasn't eligible as it was based on an existing play...

[munkustrap178]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#7

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.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[Yankeefan007]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#8

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:07pm

....likewise.

[jv92]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#9

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:08pm

Oh come on. I knew it would win, but I honestly was hoping for something else.

[Auggie27]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#10

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.

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

[munkustrap178]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#11

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.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[Yankeefan007]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#12

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:10pm

What shows were up last year?

[MargoChanning]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#13

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

[StickToPriest]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#14

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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[Yankeefan007]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#15

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:12pm

Thanks.

[MargoChanning]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#16

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).

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[jrb_actor]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#17

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).

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[Qfan2.0]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#18

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:16pm

yup its true i just checked pulitzer.com

[whatever2]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#19

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.

"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)

[MargoChanning]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#20

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?

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 4/16/07 at 03:19 PM

[jv92]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#21

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.

[munkustrap178]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#22

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:21pm

I'm sure it was considered at some point.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[MargoChanning]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#23

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).

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 4/16/07 at 03:24 PM

[munkustrap178]

re: Pulitzer Prize Winner#24

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:25pm

Not Pulitzer worthy, but while we're on the subject, neither was anything else this year.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson