pulitzer prizes
pulitzer prizes
#0pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:08pmi know 5 minutes ago they were suppose to Announce the runner ups can't wait for it to be posted
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#1re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:09pmThey're announcing them now. The press release is supposed to be up in 5 minutes.
#2re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:10pm
No award for drama this year!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/99119.html
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#4re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:11pmVery good decision. None of those plays deserved the prize.
#5re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:12pm
wtf.
I'm stunned.
Agree with Margo, though.
Question: were any musicals eligble? (not that any of them deserve it)
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#6re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:13pmSeveral were eligible, but apparently none were deemed worthy of consideration by this year's committee.
#7re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:14pm
margo,
in your opinion what would've been the best choice if they had to choose one?
#8re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:15pmWhat about "Piazza"? I'm surprised that wasn't a finalist.
#9re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:16pmCool. Well, this is exciting...kinda. It's cool to see something this rare, and yet, it's pretty uncool not to have a Pulitzer Prize at the same time. Sure says something about the current state of American Drama.
#10re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:17pmPIAZZA was eligible two years ago, during its Chicago run.
#11re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:17pm
wow i'm officially floored the pulitzer site has been updated:
http://www.pulitzer.org/index.html
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#12re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:18pmI'd rather nobody win over Adam Rapp winning for his trite of a play
#13re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:19pm
"Figured."
(ditto from my other post.)
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#14re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:20pm
In an earlier Pulitzer thread, I actually stated that if I were on the committee, I would have voted for "No Award." This was one of the weakest years for new American plays in at least a decade.
If I had to vote for something, it might have been for "In the Continuum" which at least was smart, affecting and timely (though apparently Anna Deveare Smith blackballed it from consideration this year -- no one knows why yet).
#15re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:20pm
I'd rather nobody win over Adam Rapp winning for his trite of a play
Amen to that!
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#20re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:27pm
Screw you guys, I'm going home.
It's not my fault you can't understand the complex themes and symbolisms presented in In My Life. It's because you are so used to Sondheim feeding you everything on a silver platter. Now you aren't used to thinking on your own.
Updated On: 4/17/06 at 03:27 PM
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#22re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:31pm
some good choices in reporting and commentary but there was nothing worth awarding this year in theater, imo.
one of the worst years i can remember. i can't comment on the whole anna deveare smith thing, but i know some very po'd people, that's all i'm sayin'.
EDIT: i do not know the Continuum ladies. i am referring to comments i have been hearing regarding miss deveare smith's non-support of their show. i think the chorus is demanding some sort of explaination.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#23re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:25pm
Thank God they didn't give it to Red Light Winter. I would've been really disappointed if they did.
Don't know what I would've given it to if I had to choose one. Jenny Chow is pretty great out of all the names they were tossing around, but I don't know.
vc2134
Swing Joined: 4/17/06
#24re: pulitzer prizes
Posted: 4/17/06 at 5:24pm
I have to say that I actually was hopeful that Adam Rapp would win the Pultizer this year. RLW was one of the best shows I've seen off-B'way in the past couple of years (possibly second only to BUG). At any rate, I think that calling "no award" is slightly close to cop-out territory. When they finished the announcements and President Bollinger (president of Columbia University) walked out of the World Room, I was mightly tempted to kick him in the shins and say: "No drama award? You really are an embarassment to this institution sometimes." But I restrained myself and just pouted my way across campus.
But I have to agree. I thought that IN MY LIFE was going to be the fore-runner this year. I have never been more disappointed. :)
Updated On: 4/17/06 at 05:24 PM
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