TownSquare Players Presents - You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

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You're A Good
Man Charlie Brown

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You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
March 4 -20, 2005

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 Sally is feisty and in awe of Linus; 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.

The events continue to trickle on. Linus enjoys a private time with his most favorite thing of all-My Blanket and Me, Lucy generously bothers to inform him of her ambition-of-the-moment, to become a queen with her won queendom, and then Charlie Brown lurches in for still another bout with his own friendly enemy-The Kite Sally Tells us about her new Philosophy on life, and Schroeder works to make Beethoven’s birthday a school holiday..

None of the cast is actually six years old. And they don't really look like Charles Schulz' "Peanuts" cartoon characters. But this doesn't seem to make that much difference once we are into the play, because what they are saying to each other is with the openness of that early childhood time, and the obvious fact is that they are all really quite fond of each other. This updated version of the Peanuts classic has all the old flair, but with new songs, characters and scenes, this timeless classic is more energized then ever.

Cast
in alphabetical order

LUCY:	Linda Andrews
CHARLIE BROWN:	Timothy R. Curtis
SALLY:	Bridget Gillenwater
LINUS:	Michael Palmenderi
SCHROEDER:	Daniel Stalker
SNOOPY:	Joseph Stalker

Production Staff

DIRECTOR:	Dave Ruzevich
PRODUCERS:	Deb Spitzbart, Char Ulanowski
STAGE MANAGER	Seleta Varga
MUSICAL DIRECTOR:	Betsy Stemple
CHOREOGRAPHER:	Kim Scharlow
SET DESIGNER:	John Scharres
LIGHTING DESIGNER:	Paul Bayer
COSTUME DESIGNER:	Kathy Bruhnke
COSTUME ASSISTANT:	Trudy Dreyer
PROPERTY MANAGER:	Caroylne Hurlburt
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR:	Jim Stemple
SET CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN:	Jim Stemple
SET ARTISTIC PAINTER	Jim Clouse
SOUND DESIGN:	Jim Stemple
LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR:	Craig Kattner
SOUND BOARD OPERATOR:	Tom Timpton
REHEARSAL PIANIST:	Gloria Peetz
Publicity:	Lou Czarny
PUBLICITY PHOTOGRAPHY:	Jim Pierce
STAGE RUNNING CREW:	Michael Perry, Kate Johnson, Casey Lorenc Aleska Dutko, Jacob LaMontagne Dean Schatsick, Cathy Floyd