‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’ composer Ben Folds.
Premiering on Apple TV+ August fifteenth is the primary Peanuts musical in over three many years entitled ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’, which options unique songs by Emmy Award nominees Jeff Morrow and Ben Folds (Ben Folds 5).
Moviefone not too long ago had the pleasure of talking with musician and composer Ben Folds about his work on ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’, his love for Peanuts, writing the music for the particular, and why folks nonetheless love Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
(L to R) Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown, Franklin and Marcie in “Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’, now streaming on Apple TV+.
Moviefone: To start with, have been you a fan of Charlie Brown and Peanuts while you have been rising up, and the way did you become involved within the undertaking?
Ben Folds: I imply, I grew up with it, like all of us did. There are usually not many issues that we are able to say that all of us grew up with. The Peanuts world is, you realize the tone, and you realize the characters and Charlie Brown’s is simply such an incredible character. I suppose that Charles Schultz most likely noticed himself as Charlie Brown, and I feel many people do. I felt like that once I was a child and I type of really feel like that now. It is a melancholic, however not depressive place, considerate, and he all the time telegraphs his moods. That is simply deep. So, I do not know the way you may not be a fan. It is a world that we have all lived in and that exhibits you ways good it’s. You realize, it is half a century later and it is surviving, amidst a whole lot of loud stuff for teenagers, for many years. This simply retains cruising by as a result of it is actual, and this musical is similar method. It is faucets into the most effective of each. I imply, it is beautiful animation. It is lots entertaining. I imply, it is a musical, you realize. However on the similar time, we’re allowed to be philosophical inside it, which is why I took the undertaking.
(L to R) Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Sally and buddies in ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’, now streaming on Apple TV+.
MF: Are you able to speak in regards to the strategy of writing the music for this particular and was it a unique course of than while you write your individual music?
BF: It isn’t that completely different, which is what’s type of fascinating. A few of it’s as a result of fortunately, my three songs are all Charlie Brown songs. So, I can sit inside his head and get there. They go from him being relatively despondent in regards to the state of the camp. It may be mowed over, and they are going to put malls up and all of the generations earlier than, and all of the generations after them might be unhappy about this. He carries all that and over the course of it, after all, they start to win the battle, so he is arising out of a gap. For me, it was like using life, and I perceive him. You realize, the specter of Vince Guaraldi was there, I grew up with that and I can do some little bit of that for reference, nevertheless it wasn’t that vital. What was crucial was the temper that Guaraldi was a part of the workforce that helped set a world. Now, if the music for the unique Peanuts had simply been loopy stuff, that will have actually modified the way in which that we see it and see the world.
(L to R) Sally, Charlie Brown and Snoopy in ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’, now streaming on Apple TV+.
MF: Lastly, are you able to in regards to the legacy of Peanuts and the timelessness of the characters? Why do audiences nonetheless love Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and their buddies all these years after they have been first created?
BF: Peanuts has by no means been one thing that was so shiny and loud that it simply jumps out at you. For that motive, I do know once I was a child, I used to be interested in that stuff. I preferred all of the loopy stuff. However what’s there when the noise dies down is actual life and actual ideas and by some means Peanuts has been in a position to create that world in a method that has all the time been entertaining and considerate. So, it is like when all of your fair-weather buddies have stopped making loud noise and the sugar buzz has worn off, Peanuts remains to be there, 50 years later. So, while you work inside, you respect it much more as a result of I spotted how deep Charlie Brown’s character is. It isn’t in what’s mentioned, it is all the time been in what hasn’t been mentioned. So, while you see a quiet child at the back of the category, they get much more quiet and it is one thing that is perhaps a deep topic, however we all know that they are enthusiastic about it. Is not that simpler than letting the child spout each single little factor that he is considering? So, that informs the songwriting. I like this old fashioned traditional songcraft and that is the place for it. So, I really feel just like the gig had my identify written on it personally, and I used to be fairly completely satisfied to do it.
(L to R) Woodstock and Snoopy in ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’, now streaming on Apple TV+.
What’s the plot of ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’?
Within the first Peanuts musical in over three many years, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the remainder of the gang escape in unique songs by Emmy Award nominees Jeff Morrow and Ben Folds within the newest franchise particular that invitations children and households to find the magic of summer time camp.
Who’s within the voice solid of ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’?
(L to R) Snoopy, Woodstock and Charlie Brown in ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer season Musical’, now streaming on Apple TV+.
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