“Written in the Book” is a feature that is basically the reverse of another feature of mine called “Follow the Path,” where I spotlight changes made to comic book characters that are based on outside media, as well as characters who entirely came from outside media. Nowadays, there are so many comic book films and TV series out there that we can spotlight examples of TV and film adapting specific and less famous comic book stories to other media (so no “Spider-Man lifts up debris” or stuff like that). Today, we look at how a particular quirk of Sally Brown in Peanuts made its way to a showstopper number in the musical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!
After a stint in the military, Clark Gesner started working as a songwriter for a number of children’s TV shows in New York City, the most famous of which was The Captain Kangaroo Show. In the early 1960s, while working on these other shows, Gesner began to write some songs based on the popular Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz. Gesner was thinking in terms of a concept album more than anything else. However, after he acquired a license to officially release music based on the characters, he took his songs and adapted them into a stage musical, dubbed You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which debuted in 1967 as an Off-Broadway musical.
It was successful Off-Broadway, but the Broadway take of the musical was a flop in 1971. However, the song “Happiness” became a bit of a pop standard in the late 1960s/early 1970s…
“Written in the Book” is a feature that is basically the reverse of another feature of mine called “Follow the Path,” where I spotlight changes made to comic book characters that are based on outside media, as well as characters who entirely came from outside media. Nowadays, there are so many comic book films and TV series out there that we can spotlight examples of TV and film adapting specific and less famous comic book stories to other media (so no “Spider-Man lifts up debris” or stuff like that). Today, we look at how a particular quirk of Sally Brown in Peanuts made its way to a showstopper number in the musical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!
After a stint in the military, Clark Gesner started working as a songwriter for a number of children’s TV shows in New York City, the most famous of which was The Captain Kangaroo Show. In the early 1960s, while working on these other shows, Gesner began to write some songs based on the popular Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz. Gesner was thinking in terms of a concept album more than anything else. However, after he acquired a license to officially release music based on the characters, he took his songs and adapted them into a stage musical, dubbed You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which debuted in 1967 as an Off-Broadway musical.
It was successful Off-Broadway, but the Broadway take of the musical was a flop in 1971. However, the song “Happiness” became a bit of a pop standard in the late 1960s/early 1970s…
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