you're a good man, charlie brown.

So Charlie Brown is pretty much everywhere because of the movie that just came out, woot woot.

Molalla has been on Peanuts-overload too, with our fall musical. Last night was our closing night of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown." 

Yeah, I cried, sO whAT SHut up.

I was the student conductor and accompanist which pretty much means I played the piano and nodded my head a lot. 

IT IS MUCH HARDER THAN IT SOUNDS. 

When I first got the music, I was too overwhelmed to even explain how overwhelmed I was. THERE WAS SO MUCH MUSIC THERE WAS OVER 200 PAGES MUSIC. Along with it being a musical, a lot of the show is underscored. I didn't think there was anyway that I would be able to learn it in time AND give all the cues to the rest of the pit. I played the CD in my car until my ears bled and I cried over the fact that there were so many songs to learn that they had to make a separate book for each act. I SOLD MY SOUL TO THIS SHOW DANG IT

And I did it. I learned the entire show. And then it started to get fun. I had an amazing drummer and an amazing bass player with me backstage and we pulled off a sick performance. The cast was incredible and hilarious, every single rehearsal and show was a blast.

typical rehearsal with the guys

After Friday night :)

I loved it to pieces, and now it's over. I have to take all of my sticky tabs out and erase all my pencil marks and turn in my books. I'm not ready to part with those things.

I am grateful for every second of this experience. It was extremely challenging and crazy fun. I'm gonna miss it :)

Some pictures I took at rehearsal:

The entire cast :)

"The Baseball Game"

Schroeder and Charlie (our Schroeder was a played by a girl and she and Charlie are dating in real life aww)

Linus and Sally (our Linus was a girl too:)

Lucy and Sally

"Glee Club Rehearsal"

Lol

"Red Baron" (our Snoopy was also a girl:)

"Suppertime"

"Book Report"

Thank you, Charlie Brown, for everything. I will miss you :)

Click here to read the Molalla Pioneer article about the show...

Photo credit: John Flavin

Peace.