Synopsis
From Tams-Witmark Music Library:
An average day in the life of Charlie Brown.
It seems to start off all right. After some brief comments on the nature of his character by his
friends, Charlie Brown is swept into their center by a rousing tribute of only slightly qualified
praise, in the song You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is then left to his own musings as he eats
his lunch on the school playground, complicated unbearably by the distant presence of his true love,
the "little redheaded girl," who is always just out of sight.
True love also seems to be the only unmanageable element in Lucy's solid life, which we discover as
we watch her try to bulldoze her way through to her boyfriend's sensitive, six-year-old musician's
heart, in Schroeder. The little scenes then begin to accumulate, and we learn that Lucy's little
brother, Linus, is thoughtful about many things but fanatical when it comes to the matter of his
blanket; that Patty is sweet and utterly innocent; and that Charlie Brown's dog spends much if not
most of his time thinking of being something else-a gorilla, a jungle cat, perhaps a handsome trophy
or two-but that mostly his life is a pleasant one-Snoopy.
The events continue to trickle on. Linus enjoys a private time with his most favorite thing of all-My
Blanket and Me, Lucy generously bothers to inform him of her ambition-of-the-moment, to become a
queen with her won queendom, and then Charlie Brown lurches in for still another bout with his own
friendly enemy-The Kite.
Valentine's Day comes and goes with our hero receiving not one single valentine, which brings him to
seek the temporary relief of Lucy's five-cent psychiatry booth - The Doctor Is In.
We then watch as four of our friends go through their individual struggles with the homework
assignment of writing a hundred word essay of "Peter Rabbit" in The Book Report.
Act Two roars in with Snoopy lost in another world atop his dog house. As a World War One flying ace
he does not bring down the infamous Red Baron in today's battle but we know that someday, someday he
will.
The day continues. We learn of the chaotic events of the Very Little League's Baseball Game as
Charlie Brown writes the news to his pen pal. Lucy is moved to conduct a personal survey to find out
just how crabby she really is, and all the group gathers for a misbegotten rehearsal of a song they
are to sing in assembly.
It is suppertime, and Snoopy once more discovers what wild raptures just the mere presence of his
full supper dish can send him into. And then it is evening. The gathered friends sing a little about
their individual thoughts of happiness and then they go off, leaving Lucy to make a very un-Lucy-like
gesture: she tells Charlie Brown what a good man he is.
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