| re: Caroline or Change did deserve to win the Pulitzer | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:35 pm EST 11/13/22 | |
| In reply to: Caroline or Change did deserve to win the Pulitzer - Chazwaza 12:45 pm EST 11/13/22 | |
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| I have no strong feelings about Caroline, or Change. I saw it once during the first Broadway run. I had mixed feelings about it. I keep meaning to try explore it further but I haven't. But I'm responding mainly to say that in the history of this award, the list of plays and musicals not even considered, not to mention choices of winners that have not stood the test of time (some of which were clearly questionable at the time), pretty much makes it a joke, even if an interesting joke. I've said it before and I'll say it again: John Guare has never won a Pulitzer. I realize that there are people who think nothing he has written is deserving of prestigious awards, but I couldn't disagree more. And I'm hardly alone. But some second-rate and even third-rate playwrights have won for crowd-pleasing plays and sometimes for plays that were not especially crowd-pleasing but also not very good. Well-meaning middlebrow mediocrities have too often won. Of course, a number of great plays have also won. There are times when greatness and excellence are very clear and immediately recognized, but I think too many Pulitzer judges have had middlebrow taste. And then there have been the times when the Pulitzer advisory board overruled the judges. The latter is how Fiorello! won, but judges John Gassner and John Mason Brown (genuinely smart guys) were responsible for Gypsy (one example out of dozens) not even being seriously considered that same Pulitzer season. So there was plenty of blame to go around. |
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