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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 10:16 am EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: NYT: The Great Work Continues: The 25 Best American Plays Since ‘Angels in America’ - MockingbirdGirl 08:10 pm EDT 05/31/18 | |
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| A DOLLS HOUSE PART 2, ALL THE WAY, AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY, BROKEN GLASS, BURIED CHILD, CLYBOURNE PARK, DOUBT, ECLIPSED, INDECENT, LOVE VALOUR COMPASSION, OSLO, PROOF, SEVEN GUITARS, THE GOAT, THE KENTUCKY CYCLE, THREE TALL WOMEN, TIME STANDS STILL, TRUE WEST, VANYA SONIA MASHA SPIKE, | |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 11:28 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - NewtonUK 10:16 am EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| True West and Buried Child preceded Angels In America by several years. Maybe not on Broadway, but they each had legendary status by the time anyone ever heard mention of Angels In America. | |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 11:56 am EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - NewtonUK 10:16 am EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| The Goat! Indecent! Love Valor Compassion! TIME STANDS STILL!!! Excellent list. |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:41 am EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - NewtonUK 10:16 am EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| That's a fine list. It betrays a certain demographic, no doubt about it. Everyone gets to choose the products of their own taste, background, etc., not to mention sense of how certain other demographics should be viewed, but it sure would be nice if such a fine list did not follow on the heels of a dismissive judgment of others' tastes, etc. | |
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| The Realistic Joneses? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 09:17 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - ryhog 10:41 am EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| Ugh | |
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| re: The Realistic Joneses? | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 09:54 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: The Realistic Joneses? - KingSpeed 09:17 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| Yeah, no question, the Will Eno play that should have been on the list was "Thom Pain (based on nothing)". | |
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| re: The Realistic Joneses? | |
| Posted by: davei2000 11:52 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: The Realistic Joneses? - Singapore/Fling 09:54 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| ...which was attacked here even more mercilessly than Joneses at the time. I can't wait for the revival!...;) | |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:30 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - ryhog 10:41 am EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| The act of only acknowledging plays that went to Broadway already limits it to a certain demographic. The list that emerges is a fair reflection of Broadway in the past quarter century. | |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 08:22 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - Singapore/Fling 06:30 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| The act of only acknowledging plays that went to Broadway already limits it to a certain demographic. The list that emerges is a fair reflection of Broadway in the past quarter century. Ummmm... did you actually read the article? "Of the plays we’ve singled out as the best 25 of the last 25 years — dated by their first reviews in The New York Times — only nine have ever appeared on Broadway, and none originated there." |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Last Edit: ryhog 08:45 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| Posted by: ryhog 08:44 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - MockingbirdGirl 08:22 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| ummm,,, the post to which I and in turn Singapore was responding moved the goalposts. Read the subject line in your post. | |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 11:57 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - ryhog 08:44 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| Ah, OK. You're right, I'd missed the addition of 'Broadway' to limit the field. Thanks. | |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 07:39 am EDT 06/02/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - MockingbirdGirl 11:57 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| I had too, but caught it when I was called out for important vs best, another change in the subject. (Although I prefer important since it admits of a bit less vagueness though as I said they are essentially synonymous in my dictionary.) | |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: ryhog 08:12 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - Singapore/Fling 06:30 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| Well, the Broadway focus for plays is bizarrely myopic but I let that pass. | |
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| re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 11:21 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: My list of the most important American plays to open on Broadway since ANGELS (1993) - ryhog 08:12 pm EDT 06/01/18 | |
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| It is especially bizarre since it means including a number of plays written long before Angels but not seen on Bway till after. | |
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