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You're A Good Man, Charlie BrownBook, Music & Lyrics by Clark Gesner
Directed by Milli Hoelscher PERFORMANCE DATES July 20th - August 5th, 2012 Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 2pm SYNOPSIS A program note says that the time of the action is “an average day in the life of Charlie Brown.” It really is just that, 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 in with the lives of his friends (both human and non-human) and strung together on the string of a single day, from bright uncertain morning to hopeful starlit evening. It seems to start off all right. After some brief comments on the nature of his character by his friends, Charlie Brown is swept into their center by a rousing tribute of only slightly qualified praise, in the song You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is then left to his own musings as he eats his lunch on the school playground, complicated unbearably by the distant presence of his true love, the “little redheaded girl,” who is always just out of sight. True love also seems to be the only unmanageable element in Lucy’s solid life, which we discover as we watch her try to bulldoze her way through to her boyfriend’s sensitive, six-year-old musician’s heart, in Schroeder. The little scenes then begin to accumulate, and we learn that Lucy’s little brother, Linus, is thoughtful about many things but fanatical when it comes to the matter of his blanket; that Patty is sweet and utterly innocent; and that Charlie Brown’s dog spends much if not most of his time thinking of being something else-a gorilla, a jungle cat, perhaps a handsome trophy or two-but that mostly his life is a pleasant one-Snoopy. CAST LIST A CHARLIE BROWN - Tom Young LUCY - Beth Noelle LINUS - Lincoln Thomas SALLY - Jessica Reed SCHROEDER - Nick Hauser SNOOPY - Josh Pounders Performance Dates: Fri, July 27 at 8pm Sat, July 28 at 2pm Sat, July 28 at 8pm Sun, July 29 at 2pm Sat, Aug 4 at 2pm Sat, Aug 4 at 8pm CAST LIST B CHARLIE BROWN - Jimmy Holland LUCY - Whitney Martin LINUSE - Rafe Larsen SALLY - Ashlee Waldbauer SCHROEDER - Mitchell Kelly SNOOPY - Scott Kelly Performance dates: Fri, July 20 at 8pm Sat, July 21 at 2pm Sat, July 21 at 8pm Sun, July 22 at 2pm Fri, Aug 3 at 8pm Sun, Aug 5 at 2pm PRESS "You're a Good, Man Charlie Brown" plays with two casts at Beaverton Civic Theatre Westside Theatre Reviews July 23, 2012 |
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