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Written by Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part, Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play centered around several characters including Prior Walter, who has AIDS, and his ex-lover Louis Ironson, who leaves Prior because he is unable to cope with the progress of Prior's illness.
The play, which stretches over seven hours in total, is divided into two parts - Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. The play is written for eight actors, each of whom plays two or more roles.
The play was adapted into a television miniseries for HBO by Kushner and director Mike Nichols in 2003. The series was the most watched cable movie in 2003 and won both the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Miniseries.
The play was also translated for the stage as an opera. Angels in America: The Opera made its debut on November 23, 2004 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France.
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- Opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in 1993
- Workshopped at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles before Broadway debut
- Both parts won Tony Awards for Best Play
- Miniseries on HBO
- Director of Broadway version: George C. Wolfe
- Director of miniseries: Mike Nichols
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- Louis: There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.
- Belize: I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, Louis, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.
- Angel: Greetings Prophet! The great work begins! The Messenger has arrived!
- Prior: This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.
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@shakeityourway Yes! "Angels in America" is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written.
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Can't believe I covered Bckseet's Angels in America pts 1 & 2 in 550 words, but I'll say now in 140 chars that u should go see it. #theatre
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Kushner’s award-winning "Angels in America: Perestroika" @ Round House Theatre. http://bit.ly/3JOAr3 Sun - 2P; $25. (via @SilverSpringMD)
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Tony Kushner’s award-winning drama "Angels in America: Perestroika" takes hold of Round House Theatre. http://bit.ly/3JOAr3 Sun @ 2P; $25.
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Wants to write something for the next NaNoWriMo. It'll be like a hybrid Angels in America, Saving Grace, Casablanca, God of Carnage thing.
@iamEccentric | November 08, 2009 01:25 PM
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Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches - $11.95
The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of f...
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Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika - $12.95
The second half of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Angels in America, follows the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches into the 1990s as they continue to struggle with the ravages of AIDS. Original.
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two: Perestroika - $15.95
HBO Films will present Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols from Tony Kushner’s own adaptation of his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. The remarkable cast featur...
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Academy Award-winners Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson lead an all-star cast in a 6-hour HBO Films Event. Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Tony Kushner based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play: Angels in America.
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View All Angels in America Questions (822) | Ask a QuestionDid the Toltecs migrating into North America? (1 Answer)No the Toltecs did not migrate into North America. -quote- "n central Mexico, meanwhile, the Toltec people established the next major civilization after the fall of Teotihuacán. A Nahuatl-speaking people, ... read moreDo you consider America to be a chosen land? What is the history of Zionism in America? (1 Answer)As a Jew, I do not. Zionism is the political and religious belief in Israel as our homeland, and the homeland to the other Children of Abraham. It is not ... read moreWhere can I meet single men in Los Angeles, California? (2 Answers)You can find them on the Internet. Here's a site DateHookUp where single men are looking to go out on dates and meet single women. It's free, but if you'd ... read more
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Written by Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part, Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play centered around several characters including Prior Walter, who has AIDS, and his ex-lover Louis Ironson, who leaves Prior because he is unable to cope with the progress of Prior's illness.
The play, which stretches over seven hours in total, is divided into two parts - Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. The play is written for eight actors, each of whom plays two or more roles.
The play was adapted into a television miniseries for HBO by Kushner and director Mike Nichols in 2003. The series was the most watched cable movie in 2003 and won both the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Miniseries.
The play was also translated for the stage as an opera. Angels in America: The Opera made its debut on November 23, 2004 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France.
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Fast Facts
- Opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in 1993
- Workshopped at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles before Broadway debut
- Both parts won Tony Awards for Best Play
- Miniseries on HBO
- Director of Broadway version: George C. Wolfe
- Director of miniseries: Mike Nichols
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- Louis: There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.
- Belize: I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, Louis, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.
- Angel: Greetings Prophet! The great work begins! The Messenger has arrived!
- Prior: This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.
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