Talk:Angels in America

message: In the article it says that it was first produced in 1991.  However, it also says (under Angels in America#Millennium Approaches) that it received "1990 Fund for New American Plays/Kennedy Centre Award".  So how did it receive this award before it even premiered?  What gives?  Cleduc 03:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was first performed in May 1990. I'm studying this play at university right now, and I have two academic textbooks on it, plus one which is 'a conversation with the author,' and they all give the same info for the May 1990 workshop, which is what I've added. Queer Scout 22:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What year?

message: The play won the Pulitzer prize in 1993. '93! How is it possible for the play to have won the Pulitzer in 1993, this theater award in 1990, and have premiered in 1991? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.81.79.247 (talk) 01:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What do you mean, 1990?

message: I remeber reading on some message boards that some christens where upset that a gay themed mini-series used the term angel. Was there any public outcry, and if so why is'nt it listed here? --Hagamaba 20:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversy?

message: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, isn't this the title of his book and not the plays? Benjiboi 21:35, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Title(s)

message: Many of the characters are missing or in the wrong part!
These are the characters of "millenium approaches":
Roy Cohn, Joe, Harper, Louis, Prior, Hannah, Belize, the Angel, Isidor Chemelwitz, Mr. Lies, The Leatherman, Henry, Emily, Martin Heller, Ella Chapter, Prior 1 and 2, the eskimo, woman in the South Bronx, Ethel rosenberg
and these appear in "Perestroika":
Roy Cohn, Joe, Harper, Louis, Prior, Hannah, Belize, the Angel, Mr. Lies, Henry, Emily, Isidor Chemelwitz,Sarah Ironson, the Angels Europa, Africanii, Oceania, Asiatica, Australia and Antarctica; Aleksii, the Mormon mother, the Mormon father, Caleb, Orrin  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.128.95.116 (talk) 13:19, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Characters/Roles

message: there's a prominent one happening off-broadway in new york right now, and has been getting rave reviews (which i do not have sources for), but it should be mentioned.
link: http://www.signaturetheatre.org/angels/
Rochelle CMN (talk) 07:58, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current revival 

message: I've only had experience of the HBO adaptation, please bear this in mind.  So, is it valid or appropriate to use the term, "deeply closeted" to refer to both Joe Harper and Roy Cohn?  They both have very different stories: Roy Cohn is comfortable with his homosexual activity and only keeps it secret to the extent required not to affect his career; Joe Harper desperately wishes he had no homosexual feelings at all, and attempts to live as though he were entirely heterosexual.
I think it would be an improvement if a more precise indication of their situation were offered.
Edrarsoric (talk) 23:22, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If one of their co-workers asked either of them "Are you gay?", they would say "no." That Joe Pitt wishes he weren't gay doesn't change that. So yes, "closeted" is accurate (though not necessarily important to the plot). NeoAdamite (talk) 17:07, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the term, "closeted" 

message: The plot as it is currently written does not make clear where the two halves of the play break. Many theatres only stage Millenium Approaches, so it would be helpful to make clear where it ends and Perestroika begins, which the current plot summary buries somewhere in the very long second paragraph. In fact, it might be useful to clarify that the halves are sometimes treated as two plays and staged separately or on subsequent nights, not all in one go.
Mragsdale (talk) 22:00, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify the plot and staging 

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