Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
#0Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:27pmHey guys! I've been reading the boards for quite a few months but I finally registered today. My question is did anyone see the revival of Chalrie Brown? How was the opening number done?
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#1re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:30pmWelcome!
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#2re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:31pmThey started out all performers on stage..while talking about Charlie Brown, and they each held up their 'Peanuts' character's face. Spotlights went to each character. Then the song started and all the characters were acting like children, playfully stomping and dancing around singing the opening number..they get on the bus at the end..they interact..hope this helped..if you need specifics PM me :)
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#3re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:31pmHey thank you!
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#4re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:35pm
I just got cast as Sally 2 days ago 
From the cd, this sounds like a really great show (I saw it when it was on bway but I was a bit young)
I like the intro to this, I have another question, do you need a school bus, and are all the other characters on the bus when we all go "Don't wanna be late for school!" "that's right!" et cetera?
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and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
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it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
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along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
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Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
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#5re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:45pmCongratulations! Sally is a really fun part, well from what I've heard on the cd.
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#6re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 12:57pmof course apdarcey would comment, eh? well you already got the opening number info... but about the bus, you certainly don't need it, for you can make the image in the dancing... but if you're going to have everything else then it looks awkward to have one thing that's "pantomimed"...
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#7re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 1:07pm
I have another question, do you need a school bus
Not a real one! It's a big cutout - they hold it up and put their heads out the "windows"...
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#8re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 1:36pm
thanks so much everybody
lol i didnt think a real one!
i'm not sure how the props are gonna be, but i really want a big old cut out school bus! haha
im so happy cause i get to sing one of the two Andrew Lippa songs in the show, "My New Philopsophy". i love andrew lippa
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
#9re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 2:11pm
In contrast to what you hear on the CD, the characters little schpiels about Charlie Brown were done individually, not overlapping. Each character appeared alone onstage in an individual spotlight. Then all the characters came back and did their parts overlapping (quietly) while Charlie Brown did his opening monologue, leading into the opening number.
I thought the faces of the Peanuts characters were done with projections, not hand-held signs, but I may be remembering wrong. I was just about to stage a production when I saw it, so I took good mental notes, but that was 6 years ago so I may be wrong.
#10re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 2:20pm
I think ourtime is right...
I recall the actor stood beneath a pic of his/her character that was high above them.
When the alarm clock rang, they all came from various locations to meet Charlie Brown and wait for the bus.
I do remember at the end, it was cute when they were talking about Charlie Brown being king, and he stood on their books and they put Linus's blanket around his shoulders and Snoopy's dog dish on his head and they surrounded and serenaded him.
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#11re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 8:22pmWhen I saw a regional prodution of the show done a few years ago - each actor stood next to a lifesize drawing of their character (in different areas of the stage) and a spotlight would hit them as they each talked about Charlie Brown.
#12re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/19/05 at 11:20pmThey weren't overlapping in the production I was in either. We did the spotlight thing, which made our lighting designer very happy. Not that I saw it until I watched the video. (*curses the depth of the orchestra pit*) All of our props were gigantic so the actors would look more like cartoons of little kids. Our couch was particularly huge. The back of the stage was just a white drop, to make it look like a comic strip.
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#14re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/20/05 at 12:13amDepending on what your director wants, you'll probably deliver the Red Baron monologue as if you're fighting the Red Baron. You will probably be staged on top of the doghouse, as that is how it is in the comic strip. In the recent revival, they had incredible animated projections of the comic strip backgrounds as Snoopy swirled through the air, and the doghouse was on hydrolic lifts so it leaned forward and backward with Snoopy's description of the dogfight.
#15re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/20/05 at 1:20am
We staged the opening with all the characters enetering (except for Charlie Brown) in the dark with the scrim lit so everyone was in silhouette. Everyone lined up across the stage in the worong positions initially and then scrambled to the correct positions. Then Charlie Brown entered facing the oposite direction as everyone else (upstage). Lucy grbbed him and turned him around. We utilized the individual spots, with each one in the color representative of the character (CB= yellow, Linus= red, Lucy= blue... and so on).
We had a bus that was a big foam cutout. With everyone poking their heads through the window. It looked great.
If I could figure out how to use the optional image feature on here, I would post some stage shots from the production.
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#16re: Intro. You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Posted: 6/21/05 at 12:09pmwow i love the lighting idea - thanks for posting
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