You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Shows · You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
With Charles Schultz’s appealing comic strip “Peanuts” as general inspiration, Clark Gesner created a musical out of events in “a day made up of little moments picked from all the days of Charlie Brown, from Valentine’s Day to the baseball season, from wild optimism to utter despair, all mixed with the lives of his friends (both human and non-human) and strung together on the string of a single day, from bright uncer…
- Opened
- 1967
- Performances
- 1,597
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Licensing 4 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available with restrictions |
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available with restrictions |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available with restrictions |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available with restrictions |
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16 passages naming You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Birch, Patricia Candide Grease Little Night Music, A Pacific Overtures They’re Playing Our Song You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387
A revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2/4/99; 149 performances) boasted a cast featuring Kristen Chenoweth, Roger Bart, B. D. Wong, and Anthony Rapp. But uninspired direction by Michael Mayer and the inclusion of unnecessary additional numbers by Andrew Lippa all served to undermine the simplicity and drolly u… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p38
YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN amassed an impressive four-year run, with multiple, profitable companies; a healthy afterlife as a stock & amateur staple; and even a not-very-successful sequel, SNOOPY [Grossman: December 9, 1975]. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p426
When the musical first opened on Broadway, much was made of its having been inspired by a record album. Everyone seemed to forget (or didn’t know) that Shinbone Alley (1957) had been based on the 1955 album archy and mehitabel, that Beg, Borrow or Steal (1960) had first been conceived as the 1959 album Clara, and that… book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p204
Awards Tony Awards and Nominations: Best Revival (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown); Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Roger Bart); Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Kristin Chenoweth); Best Direction of a Musical (Michael Mayer) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p364
'You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” moved to Broadway briefly before ending its long run. book:a-pictorial-history-of-the-american-theatre-1860-1985-blum#p410
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