Clark Gesner was an American composer, songwriter, author, and actor.
14 Facts About Clark Gesner
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Clark Gesner is best known for composing the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, based on the Charles M Schulz comic strip Peanuts.
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Clark Gesner attended high school in Plainfield, New Jersey, where he wrote and performed in theater productions.
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Clark Gesner attended Princeton University and was a member of the Triangle Club, the university's theater group.
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Clark Gesner found work in New York City as a writer and composer for the Captain Kangaroo in 1955 and Mister Mayor in 1964 television programs.
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Clark Gesner later wrote for the shows Sesame Street and The Electric Company.
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The Jello Is Always Red, a musical revue of cabaret songs with book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, was staged off-Broadway in New York in 1998 by The York Theatre Company.
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Animal Fair, a show with book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, is a series of vignettes that depict everyday animals in human situations.
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Some of Clark Gesner's well known compositions include "The Ivy League Look", a song for the Triangle Club, and "Little Known Facts", a musical number from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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Clark Gesner sang on the original concept album of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Linus van Pelt and sang with Barbara Minkus on four bonus tracks on the original cast recording of the Off-Broadway cast of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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Clark Gesner wrote for NBC Experiment in Television in 1967, shortly before completing You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
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Clark Gesner then co-wrote the TV special Out to Lunch.
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Clark Gesner wrote theater reviews for the local weekly, the Brooklyn Heights Press.
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Clark Gesner died of a heart attack at age 64 on July 23,2002, in downtown New York City.