
“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” (revised) will open the SummerStock 2007 season at The University of Findlay June 27.
The show will run at 8 p.m. June 27 through June 30, 2 p.m. June 30 and 6 p.m. July 1 in the Egner Center for the Performing Arts in the John and Hester Powell Grimm Theatre. Tickets are $35 for the season or $15 per show. To purchase tickets, please call 419-434-5335, or e-mail boxoffice@findlay.edu.
“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” (revised) opened on Broadway in 1999. It is a fresh approach to the all-time 1967 classic. Sally Brown joins Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Schroeder and Snoopy in this version. Two new songs, “Beethoven Day” and “My New Philosophy,” have been added to the 12 wonderful numbers of the original version, such as “My Blanket and Me,” “The Kite,” “The Baseball Game,” “Little Known Facts” and “Suppertime and Happiness.”
Actors Rachel Brinker as Sally, Doug Cordes as Linus, James Holden as Snoopy, Aaron Keller as Charlie Brown, and Emma Lorraine Giffen as Lucy, auditioned and were selected to be the core professional company members in all three SummerStock shows. “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” (revised) also will include Christopher Chiles, an intern from Ohio Northern University, as Schroeder.
The second show the season, “Cheaper by the Dozen,” will open July 11, and the final SummerStock 2007 production, “Into the Woods,” will open July 25.
SummerStock at The University of Findlay has been setting the standard for professional theatre in northwest Ohio since 1977. SummerStock uses a core professional company and supplements with an adjunct company of undergraduate interns and high school apprentices. SummerStock also produces SummerStock Youth Conservatory, a unique summer learning experience for children ages 6-14.