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Summer- 2001

My second show for Highland was "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". I was really happy with this one; it's still one of my favorites. I am a fan of the early, edgier Charles Schulz 'Peanuts' strips, and I was able to take a few, uh... "liberties" with the script, incorporating a few of my early favorites. Kudos to my production designer Kelly Skurka and costume designer Mary Beth Cooley (no relation ;-D). The kids were just great! They were off book early and soaked up the instructions like little sponges. We had a horrible storm brewing one night, and they really rolled with the punches as I started cutting on the fly to get the show to the end before the deluge hit. We made it by the skin of our teeth, and it's one of my favorite theater anecdotes. I'd like to work with kids again. it's been quite a while.

The whole Peanuts gang: Ellie Lee, Kyle Wolak, Doug Schlesser, Andy Brady, Lauren Brechner,

Darrell McCoy, Madolyn Hedin, Abby Lee, Brooke Jones, Katie Hall, Chris Skurka.

AAAUUUGGGHHHHH!	Lauren Brechner as "Snoopy".
The Doctor is "real in".	"The Baseball Game"

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