Last night, we went to the high school, to see the opening of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Of particular interest was the performance of our next-door neighbor, Grace, who played Snoopy. This musical is a series of vignettes strung together from reoccurring tropes in the Peanuts comic strip. Charlie Brown is accompanied by Lucy, Linus, Sally, Schroeder and of course Snoopy. Other familiar Peanuts characters like Pig Pen, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Frieda and Woodstock join the cast as a chorus. IMHO, Grace stole the show. Having raised our kids in this school district, it was very, very, very funny watching David’s former English teacher laugh during the Book Report song. Not that anything like that ever happened in his class. Snoopy/Grace had two big moments. The first one was when Snoopy dog-fought the Red Baron. Opening night microphone problems somewhat marred this scene, making it hard to hear. Her second moment came near the end of the show, with the song, Suppertime. She really belted it out. I understand that she rehearsed on a treadmill, to get her breathing right. Her enthusiasm and timing drew the evenings loudest applauds.