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| Second Pulitzer | |
| Posted by: aleck 12:19 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: re: It's. One. Play. - ablankpage 10:41 pm EDT 10/07/23 | |
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| It is my memory that when Part 2 did not get the Pulitzer, members of the nominating committee were ostracized, forever. Three Tall Women was awarded. | |
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| re: Second Pulitzer | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 05:08 am EDT 10/09/23 | |
| In reply to: Second Pulitzer - aleck 12:19 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| I can't imagine why they would be ostracized. "Three Tall Women" is a superb, late masterpiece by one of the US's greatest playwrights of the last sixty plus years. I saw the original and the recent revival and it spoke to me deeply at very different stages of my life (and, yes, as a gay man). In its own chiseled way, it is, for my money, as great an achievement as "Angels in America" (which I also love--I have come to appreciate "Perestroika" more over the years, but was overwhelmed by "Millennium Approaches" from the start). It's not like, to pull another example, the year they gave the award to "Lost in Yonkers" (itself a very good, if hardly innovative play) over "Six Degrees of Separation" (a masterpiece, IMO) or when "Love! Valour! Compassion" wasn't even a finalist. | |
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| re: Second Pulitzer | |
| Posted by: writerkev 06:24 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: Second Pulitzer - aleck 12:19 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| I think your memory is faulty. I’m quite sure the Pulitzer committee had considered both parts to be a single play when it was awarded. | |
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| re: Second Pulitzer | |
| Last Edit: MockingbirdGirl 06:35 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 06:34 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Second Pulitzer - writerkev 06:24 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| aleck's memory is not faulty—at least regarding how it was considered. There were contradictory instructions handed down to the jury: (I'm less convinces anyone was ostracized over it, though.) |
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| Link | NYT: Confusion Over the Pulitzer (April 15, 1994) |
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