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

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.

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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.

the show plays on stereotypes...

get over it...

i love the revival.

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

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.

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/