Charlie Brown, which opened Wednesday at the Fisher Theatre, is about funny-looking kids . Their portraits are hung on stage as the actors who play them come on singing the title song. Nothing very important happens on stage, though as one of the kids, Sally, says, dropping her ice-cream cone is like living a Shakespearean tragedy. Lucy is crabby. Linus is adaptive.
Snoopy is imaginative.
And so on. They are all, also, cute. Maybe a good show like Y.A.G.M.C.B., stopping here on its way to Broadway, is the best medicine. The kids in Wednesday night's audience loved it. So did their parents.