A Charlie Brown Christmas
Back by popular demand, bring your family and celebrate the season with our live rendition of your favorite holiday TV special! Don’t let the hustle and bustle of the holidays get you down. Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang are here to remind us about what’s most important during the Yuletide season. 2019 marks the 54th anniversary of the animated TV special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Produced by Lee Mendelson and directed by Bill Melendez, the CBS program debuted on December 9, 1965.
Cast
Credits
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.
A Charlie Brown Christmas is presented by arrangement with TAMS-WITMARK.
Directed and Choreographed by Roderick Justice
Assistant Stage Director: A James Jones
Music Director: Jamey Strawn
Production Stage Manager: Jennifer M. Picone
Stage Manager: Laura Stenger
Lighting Design: Benjamin Gantose
Properties Master: Sydney Sheets
Technical Director: Spencer Burke
Company Manager: Eric Byrd
Animation by Lightborne
Sound Design: Bill Fuss
Costume Design Originally Conceptualized by Noelle Wedig
Costume Design Adapted by Jeff Shearer
Woodstock Puppet Originally Designed by Kevin Frisch
Scenic Design Originally Conceptualized by David Centers
Musicians:
Jamey Strawn: Piano
Joe Bishop: Bass
Mike Johns: Percussion
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Study Guides
Podcasts
A Charlie Brown Christmas Edition
The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, the nation’s oldest professional theatre for young audiences, invites the young (and young-at-heart) to take a peek behind the scenes of TCT On Tour with Audio Footlights. Bob Herzog, 12 WKRC-TV anchor (and the actor who’s playing everyone’s favorite canine, Snoopy) sits down to chat with Joseph Green, who plays Charlie Brown in the show.