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You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, originally opened Off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Marks, or March 7, 1967, and is made up of loosely arranged songs and vignettes -- a slice of the lives of the zany and wacky characters made famous by Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts." The St. Marks production ran 1,597 performances. In 1971, the original production transferred to Broadway's John Golden Theatre, where it only lasted 32 performances. |
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In 1999, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown received a facelift, and with the help of famed musical theater composer Andrew Lippa (who provided additional music and arrangements), a revised version of the original production opened again on Broadway at the Ambassador Theater on February 4, 1999. The revised production replaces Patty with Sally Brown, features new scenes based on Schulz's strips written after 1967, and adds two new songs: Beethoven Day (Schroeder) and My Philosophy (Sally). The production won a 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical.
At the 1999 Tony Awards, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown won two awards, Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Roger Bart), and Best Features Actress in a Musical (Kristen Chenoweth).
The company of the revised production included Roger Bart (The Producers, The Frogs) as Snoopy, Kristen Chenoweth (Wicked, Epic Proportions) as Sally, Ilana Levine as Lucy, Stanley Wayne Mathis (Kiss Me, Kate) as Schroeder, Anthony Rapp (RENT) as Charlie Brown, and B.D. Wong (M. Butterfly, Pacific Overtures) as Linus.
The revised production played for 149 performances and closed on June 13, 1999.
Summary by: Brian Mahoney, 2005 |
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