A Charlie Brown Christmas Musical Theatre Workshop
Program: Saturdays 9:30-11:30am, September 7-January 10, 2024
Performance: January 11 & 12 at Pal Theatre, Vancouver
Grade 1 to 3 students will work as actors learning the fundamentals of musical theatre drama through weekly classes before performing six public performances. Each performance is a 30-minute musical and a 30-minute concert of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Classes in Richmond.
SYNOPSIS
Charlie Brown visits Lucy's psychiatric booth and – for five cents – tells her his troubles. After listing a multitude of potential conditions, Lucy diagnoses Charlie Brown with pantaphobia: the fear of everything. Realizing Charlie Brown needs involvement, Lucy enlists him to direct the Christmas play. The classic animated television special A Charlie Brown Christmas comes to life in this faithful stage adaptation in which Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Credits
A TAMS-WITMARK title. A Charlie Brown Christmas is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals: concordtheatricals.com
By Charles M. Schulz
Based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson
Stage Adaptation by Eric Schaeffer
By Special Arrangement with Arthur Whitelaw and Ruby Persson
Age requirement
Grade 1 to 3
program VENUE
Richmond: 6133 Buswell St
PERFORMANCE VENUE
Pal Theatre 581 Cardero Street, Vancouver
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