History Theatre / YoureAGoodManCharlieBrown

* BaitTheDog: Lucy with DamnedByFaintPraise cheers up Charlie Brown at her psychiatry booth, after giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. When he calls her a "true friend," she charges him five cents.

* TheBusCameBack: Linus's crush Janice, who appeared only in the 1990 TV special ''WesternAnimation/WhyCharlieBrownWhy'' and did not recur afterward, returns in contemporary stagings of the musical, albeit in a non-speaking background role.

* CompletelyOffTopicReport: The kids have to write a report on ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit''. Schroeder writes about RobinHood, valiantly attempting to tie it into ''Peter Rabbit'' in the final line.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: One number is a complex, metaphor-laden quartet, crossing multiple musical styles, and has at one point four main characters singing four different melodies with four different texts, reaching an intense musical climax and showing off the vocal talents of the soprano lead. The subject of the song? A 100-word book report on ''[[Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit Peter Rabbit]]''. It predated [[Music/{{Queen}} "Bohemian Rhapsody"]] by eight years.

--> Linus: "It could be a star, or maybe even a satellite."
--> Sally: "It could be a satellite! I wonder..."

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse, Linus' part of "The Book Report" is a fairly blatant example of this, as his overly-detailed analysis on ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit'' has very little to do with what's actually going on in the book. When he goes on a long explanation on "the sociological implications of family pressures so great as to drive an otherwise moral rabbit to perform acts of thievery which he consciously knew were against the law," and claims that "Peter Rabbit is established from the start as a benevolent hero," anyone who's actually ''read'' the book knows he's talking out of his ear here. Peter is a rather amoral protagonist described as "very naughty" by the narrator, the entire story happens because he ''refuses'' to go along with his family, and his first action in the book is a willful act of disobedience; nowhere in the story does he display any sort of benevolence ''or'' heroism.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Because the show was written fairly early in the comic strip's nearly 50-year run, it contains a little of this. The song "LittleKnownFacts" reflects the [[TheDitz ditzy]] tendencies that Lucy had in the '50s and early '60s comics, which by the '70s were mostly phased out of her character. The original 1967 version of the show also stands out with its inclusion of [[DemotedToExtra Patty]] as a major character, though the AnimatedAdaptation and 1999 revival script both replace her with Sally. Even in the 1999 revival, Peppermint Patty and Marcie, though both became established as major characters by the mid-1970s, have only background, non-speaking roles.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Because the show was written fairly early in the comic strip's nearly 50-year run, it contains a little of this. The song "LittleKnownFacts" reflects the [[TheDitz ditzy]] tendencies that Lucy had in the '50s and early '60s comics, which by the '70s were mostly phased out of her character. The original 1967 version of the show also stands out with its inclusion of [[DemotedToExtra Patty]] as a major character, though the AnimatedAdaptation and 1999 revival script both replace her with Sally.

* CryCute: Charlie Brown does this twice in the baseball episode, once when Lucy drops a fly ball and again when he recounts striking out in the last inning to his pen pal.

''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' is a comedic stage {{musical}} inspired by Creator/CharlesMSchulz's comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', with book by John Gordon and music/lyrics by Clark Gesner. The musical consists of a series of vignettes centered around Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang.

First performed off-Broadway in 1967, with Creator/GaryBurghoff (who would go on to play Radar O'Reilly on ''Series/{{MASH}}'') heading up the cast as Charlie Brown and a young Creator/BobBalaban playing Linus. It has been adapted to television twice, first as a live-action ''Series/HallmarkHallOfFame'' production in 1973 and again as an [[AnimatedAdaptation animated special]] in 1985. It returned to the stage as a Broadway revival in 1999, which starred Creator/AnthonyRapp as Charlie Brown, Creator/RogerBart as Snoopy, and Creator/KristinChenoweth as Sally (the latter two earned Tony Awards for their performances); and once more off-Broadway in 2016, a production that broke with tradition by casting child actors in all the roles.

First performed off-Broadway in 1967, with Creator/GaryBurghoff (who would go on to play Radar O'Reilly on ''Series/{{MASH}}'') heading up the cast as Charlie Brown and a young Creator/BobBalaban playing Linus. It has been adapted to television twice, first as a live-action ''Series/HallmarkHallOfFame'' production in 1973 and again as an [[AnimatedAdaptation animated special]] in 1985. It returned to the stage as a Broadway revival in 1999, which starred [[Theatre/{{Rent}} Anthony Rapp]] as Charlie Brown, [[Theatre/TheProducers Roger]] [[Film/YoungFrankenstein Bart]] as Snoopy, and Creator/KristinChenoweth as Sally (the latter two earned Tony Awards for their performances); and once more off-Broadway in 2016, a production that broke with tradition by casting child actors in all the roles.

First performed off-Broadway in 1967, with Creator/GaryBurghoff (who would go on to play Radar O'Reilly on ''Series/{{MASH}}'') heading up the cast as Charlie Brown and a young Creator/BobBalaban playing Linus. It has been adapted to television twice, first as a live-action ''Series/HallmarkHallOfFame'' production in 1973 and again as an [[AnimatedAdaptation animated special]] in 1985. It returned to the stage as a Broadway revival in 1999, which starred [[Theatre/{{Rent}} Anthony Rapp]] as Charlie Brown and earned Tony Awards for [[Theatre/TheProducers Roger]] [[Film/YoungFrankenstein Bart]] (Snoopy) and Creator/KristinChenoweth (Sally); and once more off-Broadway in 2016, in a production that broke with tradition by casting child actors in all the roles.

First performed off-Broadway in 1967, with Creator/GaryBurghoff (who'd go on to play Radar O'Reilly on ''Series/{{MASH}}'') heading the cast as Charlie Brown and a young Creator/BobBalaban playing Linus. It's been adapted to television twice, first as a live-action ''Series/HallmarkHallOfFame'' production in 1973 and then as an [[AnimatedAdaptation animated special]] in 1985. It returned to the stage as a Broadway revival in 1999, which starred [[Theatre/{{Rent}} Anthony Rapp]] as Charlie Brown and earned Tony Awards for [[Theatre/TheProducers Roger]] [[Film/YoungFrankenstein Bart]] (Snoopy) and Creator/KristinChenoweth (Sally); and once more off-Broadway in 2016, in a production that broke with tradition by casting child actors in all the roles.

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''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' is a stage {{musical}} inspired by Creator/CharlesMSchulz's comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. It involves a series of vignettes centered around Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang.

''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' is a stage {{musical}} inspired by Charles M. Schulz's comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. It involves a series of vignettes centered around Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang.

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* LateForSchool: In the revival, Charlie Brown manages to avert this in the opening number.

* LateForSchool: In the revival, Charlie Brown in the opening number.