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Post by Jan on Sept 10, 2020 8:01:35 GMT
Here's a list of all the plays that have won the Pulitzer Prize. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/218There are 89 of them. I have seen 5 of them (on stage, films don't count). Who has seen more ? (Well, everyone probably because I don't go to many modern plays or American plays). Here are the ones I've seen: Glengarry Glen Ross The Great White Hope Death of a Salesman The Time of Your Life Our Town Can you add more to this list ? Between us have we seen all 89 ? I know a lot of these have been on in London/UK, but there are also quite a few I've never heard of. |
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Post by n1david on Sept 10, 2020 9:14:11 GMT
I can add:
Fairview
Sweat
Hamilton
The Flick
Clybourne Park
Next to Normal
Ruined
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
The Heidi Chronicles
A Chorus Line
A Delicate Balance
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
South Pacific
Streetcar Named Desire
Anna Christie
Plus of the ones you've already claimed:
Glengarry Glen Ross
Death of a Salesman
Our Town
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Post by vdcni on Sept 10, 2020 9:32:49 GMT
Nothing really obscure, I also haven't heard of quite a lot of them and some surely have never had a production in the UK.
Anna Christie
Strange Interlude
Harvey
Streetcar
Death Of A Salesman
South Pacific
Long Day's Journey
A Delicate Balance
A Chorus Line
Sunday In The Park With George
Fences
Driving Miss Daisy
Angels In America
Three Tall Women
Proof
Doubt
August: Osage County
The Flick
Hamilton
Sweat
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Post by vdcni on Sept 10, 2020 9:35:39 GMT
That's 30 in all so far
A Chorus Line
A Delicate Balance
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Anna Christie
August: Osage County
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Clybourne Park
Death of a Salesman
Doubt
Driving Miss Daisy
Fairview
Fences
Glengarry Glen Ross
Hamilton
Harvey
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Next to Normal
Our Town
Proof
Ruined
South Pacific
Strange Interlude
Streetcar Named Desire
Sunday In The Park With George
Sweat
The Flick
The Great White Hope
The Heidi Chronicles
The Time of Your Life
Three Tall Women
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 10, 2020 10:02:27 GMT
Well that's a very frustrating website!
I can add the 1996 winner...a little known-musical by Jonathan Larson called Rent. Shame it never found an audience. 🙂
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Post by David J on Sept 10, 2020 10:35:30 GMT
Diary of Anne Frank
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Post by Dawnstar on Sept 10, 2020 11:17:34 GMT
I had no idea musicals ever won the Pulitzer Prize. I'd assumed it was just for straight plays. I've seen only 3 of the list & those are all musicals.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Sept 10, 2020 11:26:40 GMT
Just about broke into double figures with 11.
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Post by Jan on Sept 10, 2020 11:52:00 GMT
I had to check whether I’d seen You Can’t Take It With You - it was on at NT in 1983 but I didn’t see it. Lynette ?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 10, 2020 12:40:21 GMT
Here's a list of all the plays that have won the Pulitzer Prize. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/218There are 89 of them. I have seen 5 of them (on stage, films don't count). Who has seen more ? (Well, everyone probably because I don't go to many modern plays or American plays). Here are the ones I've seen: Glengarry Glen Ross The Great White Hope Death of a Salesman The Time of Your Life Our Town Can you add more to this list ? Between us have we seen all 89 ? I know a lot of these have been on in London/UK, but there are also quite a few I've never heard of. Why was no award given in 2006? There are some finalists |
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Post by Jan on Sept 10, 2020 13:37:35 GMT
I assume it’s like the Nobel Prizes which occasionally don’t get awarded, the judges didn’t think any of the candidates were worthy of it - which is a slap in the face for the list of finalists that they made public.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 10, 2020 15:06:09 GMT
But just to award because there is no or very competition is silly - Yes ALW's, Sunset Blvd at the Tony's I'm looking at you
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Post by princeton on Sept 10, 2020 15:44:13 GMT
In addition to the ones listed, quite a few of which I've seen (and apologies if I've repeated any of them), I've also seen the following - and almost all in the UK:
Cost of Living
Disgraced
Rabbit Hole
I Am My Own Wife
Anna In the Tropics
Top Dog/Underdog
How I Learned to Drive
Wit
Lost In Yonkers
The Piano Lesson
Night, Mother
Buried Child
The Shadow Box
How to Succeed in Business....
The Skin of Our Teeth
You Can't Take it with You (the National production mentioned above)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 5:36:23 GMT
I've seen the following:
fairview
sweat
hamilton
the flick
clybourne park
august osage county
proof
angels in america: millennium approaches
fences
sunday in the park with george
glengarry, glen ross
buried child
how to succeed in business
long day's journey into night
cat in a hot tin roof
south pacific
death of a salesman
a streetcar named desire
strange interlude
anna christie
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Post by Jan on Sept 11, 2020 8:06:19 GMT
A status update:
The poster who has seen the most plays on this list is almost certainly princeton but they did not (so far) provide a total count (or alternatively an exhaustive list). That leaves vdcni and xanderl tied in first place on 20.
Collectively we have see 48 of the 89 so far. The ones we are missing are listed below.
Couple of observations. Interesting how comparatively rarely the Tony Award best play or musical matches the Pulitzer prize for any particular year.
Also, there are some great plays which didn't win the Pulitzer. Which is the best ? My vote: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
MISSING PLAYS SO FAR
Why Marry?
Beyond the Horizon
Miss Lulu Bett
Icebound
Hell-Bent Fer Heaven
They Knew What They Wanted
Craig's Wife
In Abraham's Bosom
Street Scene
The Green Pastures
Alison's House
Of Thee I Sing
Both Your Houses
Men in White
The Old Maid
Idiot's Delight
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
There Shall Be No Night
State of the Union
The Shrike
Picnic
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Look Homeward, Angel
J.B.
Fiorello!
All the Way Home
The Subject Was Roses
No Place to Be Somebody
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
That Championship Season
Seascape
The Gin Game
Talley's Folly
Crimes of the Heart
A Soldier's Play
The Kentucky Cycle
The Young Man from Atlanta
Dinner With Friends
Water by the Spoonful
Between Riverside and Crazy
A Strange Loop
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 11, 2020 8:21:41 GMT
A status update: The poster who has seen the most plays on this list is almost certainly princeton but they did not (so far) provide a total count (or alternatively an exhaustive list). That leaves vdcni and xanderl tied in first place on 20. Collectively we have see 48 of the 89 so far. The ones we are missing are listed below. Couple of observations. Interesting how comparatively rarely the Tony Award best play or musical matches the Pulitzer prize for any particular year. Also, there are some great plays which didn't win the Pulitzer. Which is the best ? My vote: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
MISSING PLAYS SO FARWhy Marry? Beyond the Horizon Miss Lulu Bett Icebound Hell-Bent Fer Heaven They Knew What They Wanted Craig's Wife In Abraham's Bosom Street Scene The Green Pastures Alison's House Of Thee I Sing Both Your Houses Men in White The Old Maid Idiot's Delight Abe Lincoln in Illinois There Shall Be No Night State of the Union The Shrike Picnic The Teahouse of the August Moon Look Homeward, Angel J.B. Fiorello! All the Way Home The Subject Was Roses No Place to Be Somebody The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds That Championship Season Seascape The Gin Game Talley's Folly Crimes of the Heart A Soldier's Play The Kentucky Cycle The Young Man from Atlanta Dinner With Friends Water by the Spoonful Between Riverside and Crazy A Strange Loop I've seen Street Scene and Of thee I sing - loved them both (also a few others that are on other people's list) |
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Post by Jan on Sept 11, 2020 10:48:59 GMT
Well done. The ones that are left are mostly rarities and many didn't have much of a run in the first place. A few are famous as films and one was adapted into quite a well-known musical under a different name, so they may be unlikely to have been produced recently. I think it will take some of our USA contributors to tick them off.
Some of those early ones are exactly the type of play the Finborough put on in their revivals seasons.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 11, 2020 14:04:53 GMT
I wonder how many people use this as a benchmark of quality and try and see (or read) everything. In the same way a person may see all the Olivier or Booker prize nominates.
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Post by joem on Sept 12, 2020 7:17:03 GMT
Just eight for me and nothing to add to what's already been listed as seen I'm afraid:
Hamilton
Clybourne Park
Long Days Journey Into Night
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Death Of A Salesman
A Streetcar Named Desire
Our Town
Strange Interlude
Of the missing ones I saw J.B. in Spanish on tv decades ago but that doesn't count of course.
Best play not to win it? A View From The Bridge for me.
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2020 9:13:56 GMT
I think the problem with A View From The Bridge is it was first staged, unsuccessfully, in 1955 as a short one-act drama and then greatly expanded and re-written for 1956 - probably that messy production history counted against it. It would be hard to argue now that Diary of Anne Frank (staged in 1955 and the 1956 winner) was a more worthy winner - it would be bracketed by Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1955) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1957) which have both stood the test of time.
My nomination, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, was actually the judges choice that year but the overall Pulitzer board refused to accept the recommendation due to the subject matter of the play and that was one of the years when no award was given at all.
Another Miller omission, The Crucible, was beaten in 1953 by Picnic, a play I'm afraid I've never heard of but which was probably a less politically controversial choice.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2020 10:01:38 GMT
A status update: The poster who has seen the most plays on this list is almost certainly princeton but they did not (so far) provide a total count (or alternatively an exhaustive list). That leaves vdcni and xanderl tied in first place on 20. Collectively we have see 48 of the 89 so far. The ones we are missing are listed below. Couple of observations. Interesting how comparatively rarely the Tony Award best play or musical matches the Pulitzer prize for any particular year. Also, there are some great plays which didn't win the Pulitzer. Which is the best ? My vote: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
MISSING PLAYS SO FARWhy Marry? Beyond the Horizon Miss Lulu Bett Icebound Hell-Bent Fer Heaven They Knew What They Wanted Craig's Wife In Abraham's Bosom Street Scene The Green Pastures Alison's House Of Thee I Sing Both Your Houses Men in White The Old Maid Idiot's Delight Abe Lincoln in Illinois There Shall Be No Night State of the Union The Shrike Picnic The Teahouse of the August Moon Look Homeward, Angel J.B. Fiorello! All the Way Home The Subject Was Roses No Place to Be Somebody The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds That Championship Season Seascape The Gin Game Talley's Folly Crimes of the Heart A Soldier's Play The Kentucky Cycle The Young Man from Atlanta Dinner With Friends Water by the Spoonful Between Riverside and Crazy A Strange Loop I've seen Street Scene and Of thee I sing - loved them both (also a few others that are on other people's list) I saw Of Thee I Sing at the Bridewell with Gavin Lee. i’ve only seen the opera version of Street Scene with music by Kurt Weill, the play version, that won the Pulitzer, I’ve only read, as with a few others there. The one that I can add is The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigold, which I saw at University. |
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2020 12:41:42 GMT
“The Effect of Gamma Rays ....” is one of those where the film version is well-known and that may have prevented there being more stage productions. That film was directed by Paul Newman who made his Broadway debut in the play “Picnic” that I mentioned above as being one winner I’d never heard of.
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