![]() ![]() But the Broadway ticket prices! And Schulz refuses to be consoled with the assurance that $75 is the going rate, that audiences for “The Lion King” pay as dearly. Nor does he seem to care that an early preview crackled with enthusiasm. Presented with a Playbill direct from the Broadway production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” which opens on Broadway Thursday at New York’s Ambassador Theatre, the creator of “Peanuts” appears impressed-but not by the cover depicting silhouettes of his famous pair, jug-eared Charlie and his floppy-eared beagle Snoopy. The cartoonist who immortalized that expression and the equally exasperated “Rats!”-the strongest epithets ever uttered by his trusty band of head-heavy comic strip characters-seems genuinely stunned as he sits at the wood, plexiglass and chrome desk that also serves as his easel here inside his cozy suite of offices at a wooded address that is-really-One Snoopy Place. If looks could talk or came equipped with their own cartoon balloons, there’s no doubt what exclamation would accompany this silver-haired study in skepticism: “Good Grief!” is plastered all over Charles M. ![]()
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