Apple Tv+ Releases The First 'peanuts' Musical In 37 Years

Apple is making bully connected its promise to merchandise caller Peanuts contented pinch today's premiere of Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical. It's nan first Peanuts philharmonic successful 37 years, pinch nan past one, Snoopy: The Musical, debuting measurement backmost 1988. The caller animation introduces immoderate catchy caller songs (and a jazz soft score, of course) arsenic Charlie Brown and friends effort to prevention their beloved summertime campy Cloverhill from destruction.

The 40-minute typical directed by Erik Wiese is centered astir Charlie Brown's younger sister Sally, who hates summertime campy aft arriving for nan first time. It's up to her brother, successful his past twelvemonth astatine camp, to thief alteration her attitude. In nan different awesome crippled line, nan kids observe that Cloverhill is group for destruction, truthful Charlie Brown comes up pinch a scheme to put connected a show to prevention it. Snoopy isn't nan main characteristic this time, but is nan root of overmuch comic alleviation (pitching a "pup" shelter and sleeping connected apical of it for illustration his doghouse).

The typical uses integer animation to effort to seizure nan style of Charles M. Schultz's original drawings. During 1 poignant opus (When We Were Light), nan animation reverts to Schultz's 1950s style arsenic Charlie Brown reflects connected his early campy days — thing that's bound to deed older big viewers correct successful nan feels.

The creators down nan typical are nary different than Craig and Charles Schulz, nan boy and grandson of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schultz. "The thought jumped successful my mind, wouldn't it beryllium breathtaking to spot nan characters, you know, really singing and Dance," Craig Schultz told The New York Times. He besides felt that philharmonic numbers would springiness nan typical an extended life.

Apple has much Peanuts contented successful nan pipeline, including a caller feature-length Snoopy movie. Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical is now disposable for streaming connected Apple TV+.