David Hyde Pierce, Ayo Edebiri, Danielle Brooks & Jin Ha Join Encores! Cast Of ‘You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown’
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- New York City Center's Encores! announced Pierce, Edebiri, Brooks, and Ha will star in a revival of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" running February 3-14 to kick off its 2027 series.
- David Hyde Pierce will play Charlie Brown, with Ayo Edebiri as Snoopy, Danielle Brooks as Lucy, and Jin Ha as Linus — the core Peanuts quartet.
- Sam Pinkleton directs the production, with choreography by Sunny Min-Sook Hitt and music direction by Meghann Zervoulis Bate; the musical features book, music, and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip.
- Pierce, an Emmy winner for Frasier, returns to the New York stage after recent Broadway turns in Hello, Dolly! and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
- Edebiri, the Emmy-winning star of The Bear, makes only her second Broadway appearance after debuting in Proof; Brooks returns to the stage after her 2022 run in The Piano Lesson and carries Tony and Oscar nominations for The Color Purple.
- Jin Ha, a previous Encores! participant via Road Show, joins with stage credits spanning Hamilton, Here We Are, and the Proof revival alongside Edebiri.
Why it matters: The Encores! series, known for its concert-style revivals of classic musicals, lands a quartet of Emmy- and Tony-recognized performers for its 2027 opener — bringing three screen stars (Pierce from Frasier, Edebiri from The Bear, Brooks from Orange is the New Black) to a beloved 1967 Peanuts-based musical and transforming a limited-run revival into a Broadway calendar event.
