Brock07
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You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Cast Size?Hey all!
The on-campus theatre group I'm involved with is going to be taking suggestions for next year's show soon...and I was thinking about suggesting Charlie Brown....the only problem that we may find with it is the cast size...as far as I can tell from the soundtrack, there is only the six leads... Charlie, Lucy, Sally, Linis, Sheroder, and Snoopy. I was wondering, are there any other parts in the play, or places where a chorus is needed? I was thinking about it earlier, and I think it would be cool to cast everyone else as a Peanuts character and then have them dressed as that character....maybe give away a few of the leads lines in Happiness to the others?
What do you guys think? Help me!
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pish123c
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It's not written to include an ensemble, but the production I was in had one.
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Brock07
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What did the ensemble do?
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Monsieur D'Arque
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Generally, the ensemble sings whenever "All" sing. They're otherwise lineless, and generally costumed to resemble "familiar faces" who also did nothing in the Peanuts specials. Watch the ensemble in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and you'll get the point.
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ilovebway
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In my production we had an ensemble made up of 9 people. We appeared in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Beethoven Day, The Baseball Game, Glee Club, Suppertime, and Happiness.
We also had everyone in the ensemble as a Peanuts character. We had the Little Red-Headed Girl, Peppermint Patty, Violet, Frieda, Shermy, Patty, Pig Pen, Franklin, and Marcie.
PM if you have any more questions.
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Brock07
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Little Red-Headed girl! Nooo!!!
Yeah that's pretty much what I was thinking... Thanks all!
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Brock07
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| ilovebway wrote: | In my production we had an ensemble made up of 9 people. We appeared in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Beethoven Day, The Baseball Game, Glee Club, Suppertime, and Happiness.
We also had everyone in the ensemble as a Peanuts character. We had the Little Red-Headed Girl, Peppermint Patty, Violet, Frieda, Shermy, Patty, Pig Pen, Franklin, and Marcie.
PM if you have any more questions. |
Who were you?
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ilovebway
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Shermy. 
It was so fun.
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ActingDude17
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Our production had around a 15 person Ensemble (we did the Original, just for the record). We had them do:
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Book Report
T-E-A-M
Glee Club
Suppertime (select few as dancers)
Happiness (all had a one liner)
A few of the girls got some of Patty's lines. Like others, we also had named Ensemble (including Little Red Headed Girl).
Some appeared in scenes here in there (like in the Valentine scene, some were seated onstage silently exchanging Valentines).
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Theaterfan101
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I have never done it but I've seen it down with an ensemble. I would use
Woodstalk(s)
Shermany
Patty
Violate
Freda
Peperment Patty
Maurcie
Rerun
Pig Pen
Franklin
those two twins that dance in the Christmas Special
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pish123c
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| Brock07 wrote: | | What did the ensemble do? |
It was a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure they were in:
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown!
T-E-A-M
Glee Club
Suppertime (It was a showgirl, kickline type thing with a few select dancers.)
Happiness
I may be forgetting a few, but that was about it. The ensemble was also in the background in a few scenes (Like the one where Charlie Brown is being all emo about his lunch on the park bench.)
The production I was in also wrote in a few of the minor characters from the comic strip:
Pig Pen
Sally
Frieda
Violet
Shermy
Marcy
Our musical director even arranged this little song for the minor characters all about friendship. Each pair had a little duet (Shermy and Pig Pen had one, Patty and Marcy sang one, Violet and Frieda, and I think Sally sang something with Charlie or about Linus.)
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Theaterfan101
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| pish123c wrote: | | Brock07 wrote: | | What did the ensemble do? |
It was a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure they were in:
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown!
T-E-A-M
Glee Club
Suppertime (It was a showgirl, kickline type thing with a few select dancers.)
Happiness
I may be forgetting a few, but that was about it. The ensemble was also in the background in a few scenes (Like the one where Charlie Brown is being all emo about his lunch on the park bench.)
The production I was in also wrote in a few of the minor characters from the comic strip:
Pig Pen
Sally
Frieda
Violet
Shermy
Marcy
Our musical director even arranged this little song for the minor characters all about friendship. Each pair had a little duet (Shermy and Pig Pen had one, Patty and Marcy sang one, Violet and Frieda, and I think Sally sang something with Charlie or about Linus.) |
when you say Patty do you mean Peperment Patty or Patty, because they are diffrentpeople.
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pish123c
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I'm aware that they're different people. However, in the production I was in (not to mention most productions I've seen) she was/is played as Peppermint Patty. She's more popular than the regular Patty anyway, so I've always liked it.
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DontDoSadnessxx
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it's a cast recording and not a soundtrack.
The show I was in had a huge ensemble. It actually made the baseball game and the opening number really fun and exciting.
Its a great show =]
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Brock07
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| pish123c wrote: | | I'm aware that they're different people. However, in the production I was in (not to mention most productions I've seen) she was/is played as Peppermint Patty. She's more popular than the regular Patty anyway, so I've always liked it. |
Both could be present though, so another girl had a part.
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ChorusKidx3
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We have a chorus in our production right now, which is like the ensemble. theres about 20 people in the chorus.
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ilovebway
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Woah. 20 people?
We had 9 and I thought that was just about enough.
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pish123c
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| Brock07 wrote: | | pish123c wrote: | | I'm aware that they're different people. However, in the production I was in (not to mention most productions I've seen) she was/is played as Peppermint Patty. She's more popular than the regular Patty anyway, so I've always liked it. |
Both could be present though, so another girl had a part. |
Perhaps, but really, how many people know who the regular Patty even is?
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ActingDude17
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| ilovebway wrote: | Woah. 20 people?
We had 9 and I thought that was just about enough. |
My production had around 20.
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EponineMNFF
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I saw a very bad (and very illegal) production when there were about thirty kids who just switched off playing all of the parts.
Yeah. Not good. But I guess it was reasonable for a show with so many little kids in it who just want a little song and then to be done.
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Brock07
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| pish123c wrote: | | Brock07 wrote: | | pish123c wrote: | | I'm aware that they're different people. However, in the production I was in (not to mention most productions I've seen) she was/is played as Peppermint Patty. She's more popular than the regular Patty anyway, so I've always liked it. |
Both could be present though, so another girl had a part. |
Perhaps, but really, how many people know who the regular Patty even is? |
I didn't know her name until recently, but I knew her by sight (mainly from the old cartoons and the Christmas special)
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