You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Revival Question- Page 2

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 5/22/07 at 6:50pm

While I agree that Lippa took some of the beautiful simplicity from the score, it was a big splasy broadway production. Most people, including a few on this board I'm sure, would have called the orchestrations "too amature and off broadway-ish" for a full scale broadway revival. To be perfectly honest the only change I didn't care for was the exclusion of Charlie Brown's leaf monologue at the end of act one. Sure Book Report is a great way to end the act on a punch, but I don't think it would have hurt the show for Charlie to step out after Book and deliver his speech before the blackout. It seems like a crime to cut such a beautiful speech that really gives us a good look inside CB.

[EdmundOG]

Posted: 5/22/07 at 6:55pm

I agree, and I certainly understand why they changed the songs that way, although I hate it. "What's wrong with making mealtime a joyous occasion?" END. It's so Peanutsy that way. I much prefer the revised book, though. And the voices on the new CD are great, and it's them, combined with the 2.5 new songs that keep me listening to that one more often, and gumblingly skipping past the last ten seconds of almost every song. Even the ones that they couldn't do that to like "The Doctor is In" and "The Kite Song" have a little BOMP! at the end. Ecch.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 5/22/07 at 8:33pm

I agree, the "buttons" on the end of every. single. song get pretty ridiculous. I directed a production of this and we were under a time constraint, so I took out the buttons of probably half the songs so that they wouldn't get a big appluase and we could keep the show moving. I actually liked the pace of the show much better that way than the way I've seen it done in other productions.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:23pm

I played Schroeder in my school's production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. We included Beethoven Day in the production and I'm a white guy.

[robstyle001]

Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:42pm

the show plays on stereotypes...

get over it...

i love the revival.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 5/23/07 at 2:38am

i love the revival too.. why didn't it succeed? what did the critics say about it?

[philcrosby]

Posted: 5/24/07 at 3:18pm

It was big and blowsy and had very little to do with the charm of the source material.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 5/24/07 at 4:04pm

I had a great time. Saw it twice, actually, and I'm an out-of-towner, so for me to see something twice with my limited time in the city says something.

On the other hand, I have since done two productions of it and would argue in retrospect that some of the choices limited the charm of a very charming piece.

[Jon]

Posted: 5/24/07 at 7:45pm

Glory - what your production is doing is ILLEGAL.

Tams-Witmark EXPLICITLY FORBIDS adding the new songs if you are doing the "old" version. They make both versions available, and they make a strong point that the new version is not just the old version with two new songs added - it is a different show. You can't mix and match.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 5/28/07 at 5:23pm

>> While I agree that Lippa took some of the beautiful simplicity from the score, it was a big splasy broadway production.

Well, true. I've often said THE FANTASTICKS would play better with a chorus line and a six piece brass section.

[ggersten]

Posted: 8/17/24 at 11:03pm

Bumping this older thread to link to this article about how My New Philosophy tracked several strips, including this November 1997 strip

https://www.cbr.com/peanuts-sally-brown-new-pholosophy/