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You're a Good Man, Charlie
Brown is a musical comedy with music and
lyrics by Clark Gesner and a book by John Gordon,
based on the characters created by cartoonist
Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts.
The musical premiered Off-Broadway on March 7 1967
starring Gary Burghoff as Charlie Brown and Bob
Balaban as Linus. The show debuted on Broadway in
1971 and was a hit, running for 1,597 performances.
It was adapted for television in 1973, and a
prime-time animated TV special based on the musical,
also called You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown,
was aired on the CBS network in 1985.
The musical was revived on Broadway in
1999. It featured new dialogue by Michael Mayer and
additional songs and orchestration written by Andrew
Lippa. In this revival, the character of Patty (an
early Peanuts character not to be confused
with Peppermint Patty) was replaced with Sally
Brown. The revival received four Tony Award
nominations, winning two - Best Featured Actor and
Best Featured Actress for Roger Bart as Snoopy and
Kristin Chenoweth as Sally, respectively. |
