You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Based on the Comic Strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz
Book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner
Directed by Carla Gallun
The Redbud Players Community Theatre proudly announce a dinner theater production of Charles Schultz's "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown."
The play is about an average day in the life of Charlie Brown and it really is just that, a day made up of the 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.
The dinner menu will be provided by the Capri Steak House of downtown Columbus.
Produced by the Red Bud Players at United Methodist Church, 222 S. Dickason Blvd. in Columbus.
Performances April 28 - May 7, 2000.
Fri Sat Sun April 28
dinner: 6:30 pm
show: 8 pmApril 29
dinner: 6:30 pm
show: 8 pmMay 5
dinner: 6:30 pm
show: 8 pmMay 6
dinner: 6:30 pm
show: 8 pmMay 7
dinner: 1 pm
show: 2:30 pmTickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and can be purchased at Express Video, 146 W. Mill St., Downtown Columbus. Reservations can be made by calling Express Video at 920-623-4780 or by email at redbudplayers@yahoo.com.
For more information, please call Don Nelson at 920-623-0373.
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The Company
The cast is a representative sampling of the local area with actors from Columbus, Fall River, Beaver Dam, Sun Prairie and Waterloo. The play is being directed by Carla Gallun of Beaver Dam. This is Carla's second production with Redbud as she played the part of Corie in last fall's production of "Barefoot in the Park."
The cast is as follows:
- Charlie Brown - Paul Lorentz (Sun Prairie)
- Lucy - Erin Lostetter (Sun Prairie)
- Snoopy - Rosie Zeidler (Columbus)
- Linus - Weston Epstein (Waterloo)
- Patty - Emily Otto (Beaver Dam)
- Schroeder - Andy Waugh (Fall River)
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 the play begins, because what they say 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. That's what it's all about, after all.
Trish O'Neil of Columbus is the producer while Don Nelson of Columbus will be the stage manager.