The fact that it won all those awards in the US shows they must have had a dearth of good plays that year. Of course to say it is a bit middlebrow and a bit populist (songs) and a bit snobbish doesn't mean that I am not jealous at how brilliantly the thing is put together and how funny it is. (Made even worse by the fact this is not his best work.) What I thought was good was that all the characters were real and both good and bad. Lots of greys, no black and whites.
Contrast the theatre version of Tutti Frutti where the transfer from TV had not worked. In History Boys they had film breaks during the scene changes. During this they showed the dolly bird secretary of the Headmaster. If she had actually appeared on stage it would have been too much of a distraction, sex currents would have been too strong and it would have broken the spell. But having her on film in a theatre (distanced) was just right. Skill.
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