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Cruising The Past: WHEN DO THE GOOD THINGS START from the hit London revival of SNOOPY.
Cruising the Past: JUST ONE PERSON from the CBS ANIMATED SPECIAL of SNOOPY.
Snoopy!!! The Musical is a musical comedy with music by Larry Grossman and lyrics by Hal Hackady – the book by Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw, and Michael L. Grace. It is based on the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.
Snoopy premiered on December 9, 1975 at the Little Fox Theatre in San Francisco, California. Directed by Arthur Whitelaw (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Butterflies Are Free), the cast featured Don Potter, Jimmy Dodge, and Pamela Myers (Company). Marc Breaux (Mary Poppins, Sound of Music) choreographed the show.
Snoopy was originally produced by Arthur Whitelaw, Michael L. Grace and Susan Bloom.
There have more than a 3,000 productions of the show with thousands of performances. It is estimated that one in every ten actors or actresses who were in high school or college drama classes performed in Snoopy or You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. A reunion of performers playing Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus or Lucy would fill Madison Square Garden.
The musical was produced in New York at the Lambs Theatre with a run long run from 1982 to 1983. Directed by Whitelaw, the cast included David Garrison as Snoopy, Terry Kerwin as Charlie Brown and Vicki Lewis as Peppermint Patty. Lorna Luft played Peppermint Patty in several productions.
Snoopy was a major hit in London. It played at the West End Duchess Theatre from 20 September 1983 through 11 November 1984 for 479 performances, and featured Susie Blake. The production was nominated for the Olivier Award, Musical of the Year, and Teddy Kempner was nominated Actor of the Year in a Musical.
It was revived at the Off-West-End Jermyn Street Theatre in February 2003. The musical ran at the New Players Theatre, London, in July 2004, with several cast members from the Jermyn Street production and again directed by Whitelaw, the original director.
Snoopy has been a major hit in Japan and with the strong Chinese interest in the comic strip Peanuts – the show will soon be produced in China.
Internationally, SNOOPY has had major productions in worldwide – Pairs, Berlin, Stockholm, Sydney, Mexico City, Auckland and on and on.
A prime-time animated TV special based on the musical, also called Snoopy!!! The Musical, aired on the CBS network.
SNOOPY has been produced by many regional theatres – including recent productions in San Francisco, Portland, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston.
To produce SNOOPY THE MUSICAL or YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN – please contact TAMS-WITMARK INC. This link will take you to the TAMS-WITMARK website.
There have been two original cast recordings of SNOOPY – available from Amazon by clicking here. The animated version is available on DVD.
SNOOPY THE MUSICAL and YOU’RE A GOODMAN CHARLIE BROWN are among the top twenty musicals produced in America and world-wide annually.
SNOOPY IN JAPAN AND CHINA
