YAGMCB Lines: Sally Brown

ALL: You’re a good man, Charlie Brown. (Singing opening number, standing in the spotlight for first time)

The only thing wrong with my big brother, Charlie Brown, is his lack of confidence; his inferiority and his lack of confidence. His clumsiness, his inferiority and his lack of confidence. His stupidity, his clumsiness, his inferiority and his lack of confidence, his—

ALL: (Finish singing “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” playoff)

This is my report on the past. The past has always interested people. I must admit, however, that I don’t know much about it. I wasn’t here when it happened.

ALL: You’re a good man, Charlie Brown. (Singing opening number, standing in the spotlight for first time)

The only thing wrong with my big brother, Charlie Brown, is his lack of confidence; his inferiority and his lack of confidence. His clumsiness, his inferiority and his lack of confidence. His stupidity, his clumsiness, his inferiority and his lack of confidence, his—

ALL: (Finish singing “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” playoff)

This is my report on the past. The past has always interested people. I must admit, however, that I don’t know much about it. I wasn’t here when it happened.

LUCY: No, Sally, you’re thinking of that other dress, the one I wore to Lucinda’s party. The one I’m talking about was the very light blue one and had a design embroidered around the waist. (Walking out to Charlie with paper bag on his head)

I don’t remember.

LUCY: Something like this, and the skirt went out like this and had these puffy sleeves and a sash like this. (Drawing the dress on the paper bag)

Oh, yes, I remember.

LINUS: Happiness is a fleeting thing Sally, but I think that a man can really come closer to it by directing the forces of his life towards a single goal that he believes in, and I think that a man’s personal search for happiness is not really a selfish thing either because by achieving happiness himself he can help others to find it. Does that make sense to you? (Directly following Lucy singing “Schroeder”)

We had spaghetti at our house three times this week.

CHARLIE: What’s the matter, Sally? (Lucy just ran off to tell Frieda that Charlie wants to be called “Flash” and you are carrying your jumping rope)

Well, I don’t know. I was jumping rope, everything was all right and suddenly it all seemed so futile.

LUCY: Look at my little baby brother, Linus with his little blanket. (Linus has been singing “My Blanket and Me”)

There’s your little baby brother with his silly blanket.

SNOOPY: Suppertime?!

CHARLIE: Not yet! (Little scene right after Lucy and Linus are talking about being queen)

A “C”? A “C”? I got a “C” on my coat hanger sculpture? How could anyone get a “C” in coat hanger sculpture? May I ask a question? Was I judged on the piece of sculpture itself? If so, is it not true that time alone can judge a work of art? Or was I judged on my talent? If so, is it right that I be judged on a part of life over which I have no control? If I was judged on my effort, then I was judged unfairly, for I tried as hard as I could! Was I judged on what I had learned about this project? If so, then were not you, my teacher, also being judged on your ability to transmit your knowledge to me? Are you willing to share my “C”? Perhaps I was being judged on the quality of the coat hanger itself out of which my creation was made… Now is this not also unfair? Am I to be judged by the quality of coat hangers that are used by the dry-cleaning establishment that returns our garments? Is that not the responsibility of my parents? Should they not share my “C”? (pause) Thank you, Miss Othmar. The squeaky wheel gets the grease!

SCHROEDER: How are you today, Sally? (Directly after “The Kite”)

I’m mad! I’m mad at the whole world!

SCHROEDER: Are you mad at everybody in the whole world? (Continuing their conservation, “The Kite” is before this scene)

I’m mad at everybody!

SCHROEDER: Are you mad at all the animals and the bird and the fish? How about all the trees and the flowers? (Continuing their conservation, “The Kite” is before this scene)

I’m mad at them, too! I’m mad at everything!

SCHROEDER: Are you mad at the sky? And the stars? Are you mad at the ground? Are you mad at all the rocks? Are you mad at cars and buildings and TV and circuses and roller skates and bracelets? (Continuing their conservation, “The Kite” is before this scene)

You didn’t mention jump ropes…

SCHROEDER: Are you mad at jumpropes? (Continuing their conservation, “The Kite” is before this scene)

I’m especially mad at stupid jumpropes!

CHARLIE: …Hello? Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox. (After looking in the mailbox for a valentine from the little red-headed girl)

I’ve been thinking about why you didn’t get any valentines, Big Brother. I think I figured it out… You don’t get any valentines because no one sent you any! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha…

LUCY: That’ll be five cents, please. (Ending “The Doctor Is In,” enter as they exit)

I couldn’t decide if I wanted fudge marble, chocolate, rocky road, vanilla, or butter pecan… I finally decided to try fudge marble… Then I had to choose between a plain cone or a sugar cone… I decided on a sugar cone,,, So what happened? I went out the door, and dropped the whole thing on the sidewalk! Don’t tell me my life isn’t a Shakespearean tragedy…

SCHROEDER: (Singing) Call the principal and hand him the news, We’ve got a holiday that he can’t refuse. A day of harmony A day of music: Beethoven’s birthday!

Beethoven Day?

LINUS: We’ll start a chain of Beethoven Superstores!

SCHROEDER: But— (In the middle of “Beethoven Day”

We’ll build a Beethoven theme park!

ALL: Hooray! (Ending “Beethoven Day,” start the next scene)

All right, everybody out for rabbit chasing.

SNOOPY: Oh, good grief. (Continuing conversation about rabbit chasing, Scene before: “Beethoven Day”)

Let’s go Snoopy, up and at ‘em. It’s a magnificent day for chasing rabbits. The air is clear, the sun is shining, the fields and woodlands lie open and inviting.

SNOOPY: If it’s such a magnificent day, why spoil it for the rabbits? (Continuing conversation about rabbit chasing, Scene before: “Beethoven Day”)

Come on, Snoopy. Where’s that old thrill of the chase? Where’s your spirit of adventure? What kind of dog are you, anyway?

SNOOPY: I am a sleeping dog. You take it from there. (Continuing conversation about rabbit chasing, Scene before: “Beethoven Day”)

You should be ashamed of yourself, wasting a perfect day like this. The scent is fresh. The trail is clear. Let’s get you there and track us down a big ‘ol rabbit.

SNOOPY: Well, I get the feeling she’s determined. Okay if that’s what she wants, she might as well get her money’s worth. (Continuing conversation about rabbit chasing, Scene before: “Beethoven Day”)

Atta boy, Snoopy. We ought to see lots of game today.

SNOOPY: Someday, someday, I’ll get you, Red Baron! (Last line of huge fighter monologue, beginning of Act 2)

“Oh yeah. That’s what you think.” “Oh yeah. That’s what you think.” “Oh yeah. That’s what you think.” (Schroeder enters) “Oh yeah. That’s what you think!”

SCHROEDER: What? (“My New Philosophy”)

That’s my new philosophy. “Oh yeah. That’s what you think!”

SCHROEDER: Why are you telling me? [1st time](“My New Philosophy”)

What?

SCHROEDER: Why are you telling me? [2nd time] (“My New Philosophy”)

“Why are you telling me?” I like it! (music in)

LINUS: Perhaps you shouldn’t be a playing manager, Charlie Brown. Perhaps you should be a bench manager. (Charlie is trying to hype up the baseball team)

That’s a good idea. You’d be a great bench manager, Big Brother. You could say “Bench, do this,” or “Bench, do that.” You could even be in charge of where we put the bench. When we get to the playing field, you could say, “Let’s put the bench here,” or “Let’s put the bench there.”

LUCY: Oh, Sally, I’m conducting a survey and I wonder if— (Lucy just asked Charlie her survey questions)

A hundred and ten, “C,” “Poor,” “None of the above,” “No” and what are you going to do about the dent you made in my bicycle!

SCHROEDER: Of course it’s surprising, but I’m sure Lucy knows now she can’t be crabby anymore— (Entering after Lucy and Linus have their cute sibling moment)

Anymore.

SCHROEDER: Where is everybody? I told them to be here. (Continuing conversation, Previous scene: Lucy and Linus sibling moment)

You told them to be here.

SCHROEDER: If we don’t rehearse we can’t sing at the assembly tomorrow. (Continuing conversation, Previous scene: Lucy and Linus sibling moment)

The assembly tomorrow!

SCHROEDER: Charlie Brown! (Continuing conversation, Previous scene: Lucy and Linus sibling moment)

Charlie Brown!

SCHROEDER: Linus! (Continuing conversation, Previous scene: Lucy and Linus sibling moment)

Linus! BOTH: Lucy!

SCHROEDER: Stop that! We’ve got to rehearse. You’re late. (Linus and Lucy arguing about pencil)

What did you say about me, Linus?

SCHROEDER: There’s no time to be sorry. (Charlie is late to rehearsal)

What did he say?

SNOOPY: My teeth are tingling again. I feel like I’ve just got to bite somebody before sundown or I’ll go stark raving mad. And yet, I know that society frowns on such an action. So what happens? I’m stuck with tingly teeth. (After Glee Club rehearsal)

Each family has a chain of command. And do you know who’s the lowest on that chain? Guess! It’s the dog! The dog is the lowest! Do you understand that? I said, do you understand that?

SCHROEDER: I believe that is a star. But it could be a planet you know… or maybe even a satellite. (The friends are stargazing)

It could be a satellite. I wonder.