Perhaps this production was more famous for who was in it than for itself. Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Bart, BD Wong and Anthony Rapp. All had been on Broadway prior to this revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but only Anthony Rapp (Rent) and BD Wong (M. Butterfly) had had lead roles. Rapp and Wong have kind of been left in the dust now by Bart and Chenoweth.
This is another show that says "intimate" to me, although I've never seen it staged, although it did an out of town try-out in Chicago before going to Broadway. I think fluffing it up to fill a larger house would take away some of the show's innocence. But then the high-wattage Chenoweth would seem a little out of place--particularly in the brassy role of Sally, which was created for this revival. Did the show need another brassy female when it already had Lucy--the archtypal brassy female? The male roles are all rather soft-spoken characters, aren't they? Except Snoopy, I guess.
The album was recorded a couple of weeks before the show's official opening. I wonder why?
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Music and Lyrics Clark Gesner, additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
1999 Broadway Cast Album
Released by RCA Victor
Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Wayne Mathis, B. D. Wong, Roger Bart, Ilana Levine, Anthony Rapp
This is another show that says "intimate" to me, although I've never seen it staged, although it did an out of town try-out in Chicago before going to Broadway. I think fluffing it up to fill a larger house would take away some of the show's innocence. But then the high-wattage Chenoweth would seem a little out of place--particularly in the brassy role of Sally, which was created for this revival. Did the show need another brassy female when it already had Lucy--the archtypal brassy female? The male roles are all rather soft-spoken characters, aren't they? Except Snoopy, I guess.
The album was recorded a couple of weeks before the show's official opening. I wonder why?
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Music and Lyrics Clark Gesner, additional music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa
1999 Broadway Cast Album
Released by RCA Victor
Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, Stanley Wayne Mathis, B. D. Wong, Roger Bart, Ilana Levine, Anthony Rapp
2 comments:
I love the addition of "Beethoven Day" to the revival. Isn't there another song that's new to the show? I can't remember.
Sally's songs are new to this version, so "My New Philosophy" and is there a second one? Can't remember now.
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