At first, I thought the Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was based on this, but when I saw a behind the scenes look at this on my You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown DVD for the first time, I found out that it's actually the other way around. The same high school I went to put on the same play last spring, and my family and I came to it, and we all enjoyed it very much! It was the best play I've ever seen, and I was lucky enough to get all the main characters' autographs! I finished high school 2 years ago, and I recently finished my second year in community college, but I would've been in the play if my high school did it when I went there. I would've wanted to play either Charlie Brown, Linus, or Snoopy. Heck, I already have the right attire to play Linus: the red and black striped shirt, the black pants, and even the blue blanket, so nobody would've had to make or buy a Linus costume for me.
The plot is a typical day in the life of Charlie Brown, with little moments from Valentine's Day to the baseball season, from wild optimism to utter despair, all mixed in the lives of his friends. This is a love letter to Charlie Brown, hence the title, which makes me like this even more! The other characters show more appreciation for him than usual, and they even sing about it at the beginning. To put more bread on the table, at the end he says it hasn't been such a bad day after all and how much better his friends have made his life. Above all else, Charlie Brown is resilient, persistent, and never fails to get up and try again.
If you've seen this before, you know that Snoopy talks in this, just like the play, but all his dialogue and singing is from his thoughts, and the humans can't hear him, so he's technically still nonverbal, which makes the idea of him talking even better. That, and he still does his signature laugh and growl.
All our favorite gags from the comic strip are brought to life in a new style: through surprisingly well-written songs with breathtakingly beautiful, which accurately capture the spirit of the strip. The songs' topics include Charlie Brown flying a kite, losing baseball games, Lucy's obsession with Schroeder, Snoopy's obsession with suppertime, and more. My favorite song is Happiness, the last song in both the TV movie and the play, because it's a soft, relaxing, and beautiful song about the little things in life that make people happy, especially the main characters, and it always make me feel the need to cry. My grandpa and I both cried during the song at the play.
There is one thing I don't like about this, Lucy's song Little Known Facts. The lyrics consist entirely of inaccurate facts that Lucy is trying to teach Linus, like we eat eagles on Thanksgiving and Christmas, snow comes up, bugs make grass grow, fire hydrants give us water to drink, and more. That's why I give this a 9/10. I can't blame Charlie Brown for scowling at her, trying to correct everything, and banging his head up against a tree at the end of the song. Overall, this is a great special, and if you're a big Peanuts fan like me, you should check this out, and the play too if possible.
The plot is a typical day in the life of Charlie Brown, with little moments from Valentine's Day to the baseball season, from wild optimism to utter despair, all mixed in the lives of his friends. This is a love letter to Charlie Brown, hence the title, which makes me like this even more! The other characters show more appreciation for him than usual, and they even sing about it at the beginning. To put more bread on the table, at the end he says it hasn't been such a bad day after all and how much better his friends have made his life. Above all else, Charlie Brown is resilient, persistent, and never fails to get up and try again.
If you've seen this before, you know that Snoopy talks in this, just like the play, but all his dialogue and singing is from his thoughts, and the humans can't hear him, so he's technically still nonverbal, which makes the idea of him talking even better. That, and he still does his signature laugh and growl.
All our favorite gags from the comic strip are brought to life in a new style: through surprisingly well-written songs with breathtakingly beautiful, which accurately capture the spirit of the strip. The songs' topics include Charlie Brown flying a kite, losing baseball games, Lucy's obsession with Schroeder, Snoopy's obsession with suppertime, and more. My favorite song is Happiness, the last song in both the TV movie and the play, because it's a soft, relaxing, and beautiful song about the little things in life that make people happy, especially the main characters, and it always make me feel the need to cry. My grandpa and I both cried during the song at the play.
There is one thing I don't like about this, Lucy's song Little Known Facts. The lyrics consist entirely of inaccurate facts that Lucy is trying to teach Linus, like we eat eagles on Thanksgiving and Christmas, snow comes up, bugs make grass grow, fire hydrants give us water to drink, and more. That's why I give this a 9/10. I can't blame Charlie Brown for scowling at her, trying to correct everything, and banging his head up against a tree at the end of the song. Overall, this is a great special, and if you're a big Peanuts fan like me, you should check this out, and the play too if possible.
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