Manal Hage

Texas State's Department of Theater and Dance now features the newly revived musical production, The World According to Snoopy. Bobcat Update's Manal Hage (phonetic) takes a peak behind the curtain. 

Based on the classic comic strip, Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz, the production includes many of his favorite characters -- Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Sally, Lucy, Linus and  Peppermint Patty. They all will sing and dance their way through life with Snoopy at the wheel.
Directed by Kaitlin Hopkins, head of the musical theater program at Texas State, the production features new orchestrations, vocal arrangements  and choreography.
Texas State collaborated with Larry Grossman, the original Broadway composer of 1968's You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, to produce Snoopy.
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The production team has been hard at work since fall 2016 putting the show together. From building the set from scratch, to sewing new costumes and countless hours of rehearsal; the team dedicated its time to make this show as sophisticated and as fun as possible for audiences.
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The Department of Theater and Dance is working with Houston's  nonprofit company, Theater Under the Stars, to make the production possible.
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Hopkins' message to students is simple -- The characters are tenacious. When they fall down, they get right back up. That, says Hopkins, is an important lesson for us all.
The production will play at Patti Strickel Harrison Theater from now through February 19th. Tickets are available at T-X-State-Presents-dot-com.  For Bobcat Update, I'm Manal Hage.