Charles Schulz Peanuts Comic Strip

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Peanuts is a comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper. During the early 1960s, Clark Gesner began writing songs based on Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip characters, but was unable to get permission from the United Features Syndicate to use the characters in his songs. Eventually Gesner sent Schulz a tape of some of the songs and Gesner was able to get the permission to record them and he did in 1966. At the time, Gesner had no plans for a musical based on this pre-production "concept album." However, producer Arthur Whitelaw, who would later go on to write another musical based on Peanuts, encouraged Gesner to turn the album into a musical. The stage adaptation of the concept album, entitled …show more content…

Unit sets are made up of several pieces or units, which can be rearranged to produce more than one setting. Unit sets are also useful in plays requiring many scene changes. There was a lot of use of a scenery wagon to move things such as Snoopy’s dog house or a mailbox on to the set. A scenery wagon is a mobile platform that is used to support and transport movable, three-dimensional theatrical scenery on a theater stage. In most cases, the scenery is constructed on top of the wagon so that the wagon, and the scenery it supports, forms a single, integrated

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