![]() The song “Little Known Facts” was an obvious metaphor for the arguably tortured logic of organized religion, at least from the counterculture’s perspective. And just as Cats wasn’t really about cats but more about the foibles of human beings, so too Charlie Brown was not really about kids but about the contradictions and inanities of adult society.īut also like Hair, it was a product of its time, laughing at adult culture under the cover of portraying five-year-olds. Certainly Charlie Brown was second cousin to Candide, perpetually beaten up by the world but always still soldiering on. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown looked both backward to Candide and forward to Cats. ![]() ![]() Hair was being created at the exact same time (also largely group-devised), and though that show was a more obvious expression of the hippie movement, Charlie Brown was a calmer, gentler, hippie cousin to Hair. The show, dubbed You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, with book, music, and lyrics by Gesner, was directed by Joseph Hardy and choreographed by Patricia Birch (soon to do Grease), and opened off Broadway in March 1967 at Theatre 80 at St.
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