Читать книгу The Complete Peanuts Family Album - Andrew Farago - Страница 31

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN,

CHARLIE BROWN

I

n 1967, the musical comedy

You’re a Good Man,

Charlie Brown

, featuring music and lyrics by

Clark Gesner, debuted. A loving tribute to

Peanuts

,

the beloved musical has been performed worldwide

in venues from New York’s Broadway to London’s

West End, and remains a popular stage production

to this day.

Charles Schulz counted himself among the

musical’s biggest fans. “[

You’re a good Man, Charlie

Brown

has] become the most performed musical

in the history of American theatre . . . every school

and church and high school and grade school and

kindergarten you can think of has put this thing on

and it had taken a terrible beating but it survives.

And, of course, the music is good and it’s not cute.

That was the main thing. It was incredible that they

could have made so many mistakes putting it together,

but everything just fell right into place just right

and that’s very gratifying. I used to go down to the

theatre in San Francisco and it was a great pleasure

to stand out in

the lobby when

the show was

over and seeing

the families

coming out

and everybody

smiling because

they had had a

good time.”

top: Style guide art –

CSCA

| left and

right: Theater posters

for You’re a Good Man,

Charlie Brown, performed

at the Ambassador

Theatre, New York City,

1999, and the Golden The-

atre, New York City, 1971

– CMSM

| opposite:

Original Schulz mockup

of You’re a Good Man,

Charlie Brown theater

production, c. 1990 –

CMSM