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	Talkin' Broadway Review: Anna In The Tropics
		Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics was the somewhat surprise winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama, leading many in the New York theatre community to scratch their heads wondering what this play was and why it was worthy of the honor.
		While Anna in the Tropics is a more satisfying and substantial play than last year's Pulitzer winner, Topdog/Underdog, and despite its being frequently entertaining, clever, and interesting, the script and the production it's received here casts an aura of being both too slight and too overblown to be completely effective.
		Anna in the Tropics suggests that Cruz is a strong enough voice to merit careful attention in the future, and his Pulitzer win will doubt open doors that will allow him to create the truly unique, original play he is obviously capable of.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/AnnaTropics.html (930 words)

	ANNA IN THE TROPICS
		Also falling by the wayside is the custom of using a "lector," a person who reads to the workers in order to break up the monotony of their labors.
		ANNA IN THE TROPICS opens with Santiago (Victor Argo) and his half-brother, Cheche (David Zayas), placing wagers on a cock-fight.
		ANNA IN THE TROPICS, a fragrant tobacco flower brought to full bloom by a brilliant cast and a thoughtful production.
	www.broadwaybeat.com /russell/Anna.htm (593 words)

	Dog Primer: Books: Anna in the Tropics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In language that is often lyrical and sometimes fanciful, the action unfolds, with discussions evolving about the nature and importance of literature, the enduring values of their culture, the importance of love, and the possible effects of "progress" on traditional values.
		To celebrate their happiness with the story of Anna Karenina, they decide to create a new cigar in her honor, and to have Marela serve as the model for the cigar box, but their happiness is as fragile and temporary as the idea of a "family" of workers making cigars without machines.
		When disaster strikes, it affects the entire factory, and the characters must decide to what extent it is possible to remain in a fantasy world when reality has reared its ugly head, and to what extent it is possible to hold on to the past when the survival of the factory may depend on progress.
	www.dogprimer.com /shop/1-1000-1559362324-Anna_in_the_Tropics.html (1420 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Theatre : Anna in the Tropics
		There are beautiful girls in Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, Centaur Theatre's season opener, but they roll tobacco leaves into cigars on tables, not on their nubile flesh.
		Owned by Cuban immigrant Santiago (played by Manuel Aranguiz), the factory where Anna is set employs not just Cuban, but Spanish, Italian, German and Jewish immigrants, as well as all the members of Santiago's extended family.
		Cruz's story is inspired by the historical tradition, brought from Cuba to America, of hiring readers, or lectores in these factories to entertain the workers while they performed their repetitive tasks.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2004/100704/theatre.html (606 words)

	HeraldNet: 'Anna in the Tropics' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cuban-born playwright Nilo Cruz turned this story into his own modern classic when he wrote "Anna in the Tropics," a poetic drama that premiered in 2002 at a small theater in Coral Gables, Fla., then surprised the theater world by winning the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
		"Anna" is set in a Florida cigar factory in 1929 where expatriate Cubans are hand-rolling cigars the traditional way, all the while facing the impending mechanization of cigar-making that will overturn their world.
		The reading of "Anna Karenina" sets off a series of events in the personal lives of the workers, as Cruz blends passages from Tolstoy's story of a tragic woman who destroys her life for love that parallel what's happening in the hothouse atmosphere of the cigar factory.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/04/10/01/ae_opening001.cfm (781 words)

	'Anna in the Tropics' modeled after Tolstoy's masterpiece - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		"Anna in the Tropics" begins with the arrival of Juan Julian (Jimmy Smits), an elegant former aristocrat and now penniless emigre in a white linen suit.
		"Anna's" problem isn't simply that the characters get locked into behaviors, interactions and fates that were preordained by characters from another time, place and circumstances.
		But "Anna" is so narrow in focus and setting that we can never neglect for a moment where it's archetypal plot is taking us.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_170959.html (668 words)

	South Coast Repertory Press Release - 'Anna in the Tropics'
		Anna in the Tropics is a celebration of both the beauty and the power of language.
		Anna in the Tropics had received in-house development workshops prior to it receiving this year’s Pulitzer Prize, and was already scheduled for this year’s Pacific Playwrights Festival and the Fall production when the Pulitzer announcement was made.
		Anna in the Tropics runs on the Julianne Argyros Stage, October 3 through 19, 2003.
	www.scr.org /season/03-04season/releases/annarelease.html (1541 words)

	Aisle Say (Seattle): ANNA IN THE TROPICS
		Fortunately, "Anna"'s greatest strength, aside from the evocatively poetic language, lies in its representation of a lush, erotically tinged landscape.
		But their love making ends so abruptly that it deprives the moment of any sense of two people lost in the throes of passion; the scene becomes all about the mechanics, with little regard for the underlying emotions.
		Allas is saddled with the villian's role, but he manages to breath a fullness of life into his character that deeply humanizes his sense of frustration with his brother's stubborn traditionalism, as well as lending at least a modicum of sympathy for his otherwise predacious advances on his niece, Marela (a vivacious Tanya Perez).
	www.aislesay.com /WA-ANNA.html (889 words)

	Anna in the Tropics: Theatre: Bill Gorman: CenterstageChicago.com
		The Actors’ Theatre of Louisville had considered Anna in the Tropics for the 2003 Humana Festival, but ultimately did not choose to include the play in its lineup.
		Directed by Henry Godinez, Anna in the Tropics is a romantic tale of love, jealousy, betrayal and redemption.
		Anna in the Tropics is poetic, beautiful and tragic.
	centerstage.net /Theatre/articles/annatropics.html (673 words)

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	Anna in the Tropics
		In Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, we are transported to the heat of Florida and the Latino exoticism of a family of Cuban immigrants, running a cigar factory in the American tropics.
		The lector is an object of lust for all the women, and he sexually awakens both Marela and her married older sister: neglected by her husband Palomo, the romantic dreamer Conchita soon turns her attentions to the lusty Lector, thereby prompting Palomo's jealousy.
		Anna in the Tropics is beautifully and sensitively written, with a fine balance of both tender and fervently passionate moments.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2004-02/tropics.htm (504 words)

	‘Anna in the Tropics’ thrilling theater
		NEW YORK -- The annals of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama are littered with the skeletons of plays that sounded a certain pitch at a certain moment, were celebrated and then faded into obscurity.
		“Anna in the Tropics” is playing in an open run at Royale Theatre, 242 W.est 45th St., New York City.
		Using Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" as the text for the lector's readings -- the audience hears a few heart-pounding passages -- the playwright subtly interweaves the two stories until "reality" and "fiction" echo one another in a heady mix of love and betrayal.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /theater/148651_annaq.html (1072 words)

	... welcome to the three imaginary girls ... Anna in the Tropics, Waxwings, SNP!...
		Excellent Anna in the Tropics is set in a cigar factory in 1929 Ybor City, Florida (a Cuban district of Tampa), and the newly-hired lector (Bryant Mason) is just beginning to read Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.
		Anna in the Tropics is a masterful and fiercely original piece of work that I just can't praise enough.
		Waxwings just happens to be playing in the same building as Anna in the Tropics, and as I entered the theatre for an opening-weekend performance I felt a none-too-slight twang of jealousy at the Anna crowd's great fortune.
	www.threeimaginarygirls.com /anna04oct.asp (1276 words)

	Anna in the Tropics - Broadway Drama - JimsDeli NYC Guide
		Anna in the Tropics was a 2004 Tony Awards nominee and won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
		Anna in the Tropics concerns one such lector who, as he reads Anna Karenina, "unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners"
		Notes Anna in the Tropics was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama
	www.jimsdeli.com /theater/2003-2004/anna-tropics.htm (132 words)

	“Anna in the Tropics” —Tolstoy with a twist
		Stephanie Arnold, professor of theatre, directs the production, with set by Tim Stapleton, visiting instructor in theatre, and costume designs by Emilea Rivera B.A. Set in 1929, “Anna in the Tropics” is a romantic drama that tells the story of a family of cigar makers in Ybor City, near Tampa, Fla., during the Great Depression.
		As the lector begins reading Tolstoy’s classic “Anna Karenina,” the factory workers’ own lives begin to reflect and interact with the struggles of the characters in the Tolstoy novel.
		A cast and crew of more than a dozen students brings “Anna in the Tropics” to life.
	www.lclark.edu /cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?1141345920.0 (501 words)

	‘Anna in the Tropics’ thrilling theater (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Nilo Cruz's "Anna in the Tropics" received the 2003 prize last spring, after a brief 2002 run at the tiny New Theatre in Coral Gables, Fla., many wondered how the play would fare when it finally opened to wider audiences.
		Set in 1929 Tampa, Fla., "Anna in the Tropics" considers the lives of expatriate Cuban cigarmakers who struggle to preserve their traditions as mechanization and modernity threaten.
		In the opening to "Anna Karenina," Tolstoy famously wrote, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
	seattlepi.nwsource.com.cob-web.org:8888 /theater/148651_annaq.html (1071 words)

	Anna In the Tropics, a CurtainUp review
		The trope studded, tropical romance by the Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz is the same production as the one reviewed by CurtainUp's Katbryn Osenlund and now that I've seen it, I can concur with her evaluation of the play, the characters and the performances.
		Despite the predictability and tendency towards historical romance plotting, Anna In the Tropics succeeds in conveying the sense of loss that inevitably accompanies the march of time and progress -- and the ability of great literature to reach out to even the simplest readers (and listeners).
		In the play the situation of a handsome lector, reading a romantic novel to couples with troubled marriages, a young girl pining for a hero, and an obsessed, jilted husband longing for retribution, is a volatile one.
	www.curtainup.com /annainthetropics.html (1712 words)

	Playbill News: Tropics Heats up Broadway, as Pulitzer's Choice Makes New York Debut
		Not in the case of Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, which began in Florida and visited Chicago and New Jersey before setting a foot on a Broadway stage.
		Anna is the first play since Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle to win the Pulitzer without having had a production in New York.
		Anna in the Tropics was commissioned by the New Theatre in Coral Gables, FL.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/82540.html (651 words)

	Playbill News: Smits, Lopez Star in Reading of Pulitzer Winner, Anna in the Tropics, April 26 (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Anna in the Tropics was an extremely dark horse in the Pulitzer contest.
		Anna is also the first play since Robert Schenkkan's The Kentucky Cycle to win the Pulitzer without having had a production in New York.
		Anna premiered at the New Theatre during the 2002-03 season.
	www.playbill.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/article/79173.html (566 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Anna in the Tropics'
		NILO CRUZ spins his play Anna in the Tropics around the old phenomenon among Cuban cigar makers of the lector.
		When newly hired lector Juan Julian (David DeSantos) steps into this dreary, family-owned operation in his crisp, white, three-piece suit (Fumiko Bielefeldt, costume design), it's obvious that he brings with him a vision of something far beyond the walls hung with tobacco leaves.
		Anna in the Tropics, a TheatreWorks production, plays Tuesday at 7:30pm (except March 28), Wednesday-Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2 and/or 8pm and Sunday at 2 and /or 7pm through April 2 at the Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.15.06/anna-0611.html (715 words)

	Stage: Anna in the Tropics (Seattle Weekly)
		Following an old, elegant custom that is as uncertain of permanence in an increasingly modernized world as the hand-rolled cigars themselves, suave new "lector" Juan Julian (Bryant Mason) arrives in Ybor City to read a novel aloud to the factory workers.
		He has chosen Anna Karenina to lift them from their monotony, and the life-or-death romanticism does its job, all right.
		Anna is a flawed evening worth his words.
	www.seattleweekly.com /arts/0441/041013_arts_openingnights.php (919 words)

	Anna in the Tropics Study Guide by Nilo Cruz: Bibliography
		Anna in the Tropics Study Guide by Nilo Cruz: Bibliography
		Cruz, Nilo, Anna in the Tropics, Theatre Communications Group, 2003.
		Anna in the Tropics from Drama for Students.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-annatropics/bib.html (183 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Anna in the Tropics"
		Cruz and, yes, ANNA IN THE TROPICS does sound intriguing, on paper: a Cuban-American family, in 1929, hires a lector named Juan to read aloud to them while they manufacture hand-rolled cigars in their Florida-based business (this long-standing literary tradition ended when machines replaced manual labor and the lectors’ voices could no longer be heard).
		There is a lovely moment when all of the characters, one by one, savor a new cigar brand named after Mr.
		Tolstoy’s heroine; otherwise, ANNA IN THE TROPICS needs a hothouse atmosphere to lend depth and interest to the would-be lyricism --- under Daniel Jáquez’s direction, there simply isn’t any: it must be wonderful to work in a cigar factory where you can listen to stories all day, wear nice clothes and never need air conditioning.
	www.theatermirror.com /CRannaspeakeasy.htm (472 words)

	Anna in the Tropics
		This was life imitates art, as Conchita (Rubin-Vega), the wife of a philandering husband, Palomo (Ortiz), begins a fiery affair with the lanky lector, Juan Julian (Smits), as she fantasizes about Anna Karenina, as do all the cigar workers, who had previously relied on cockfights for distraction and gambling.
		When the parents created a new cigar, they called it Anna Karenina, and Marela posed for the cigar box, with a large rose on her hair and a Russian dress.
		Rubin-Vega as Ofelia unpeels her toughness as rejected wife and blooms as the rose on Anna Karenina’s hair, as she discovers her true sexuality with Juan Julian.
	www.robertaonthearts.com /id107.html (800 words)

	Park Square Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for this arresting and seductive tale.
		In the oppressive heat of a 1920s South Florida cigar factory, the cold world of Anna Karenina settles over the landscape like thick tobacco smoke.
		Pride and passions are already running high as the factory is threatened by the race to industrialize and join the American Dream.
	www.parksquaretheatre.org /2006_anna.html (124 words)

	Jose Valenzuela to Direct Jimmy Smits in "Anna in the Tropics"
		Jose Luis Valenzuela is set to direct Jimmy Smits, who recreates his Broadway role as Juan Julian, the "lector", when L.A. Theatre Works records Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics for broadcast on its nationally-syndicated radio theater series, The Play’s The Thing.
		Next in line to be preserved on CD by L.A. Theatre Works is Nilo Cruz’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner, Anna in the Tropics.
		The arrival of a new lector (Jimmy Smits, recreating his Broadway role) is cause for celebration, but when he reads aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics and the American dream prove a volatile combination.
	www.contactomagazine.com /annainthetropics.htm (496 words)

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