Young cast brings special touch to 'Charlotte's Web'

Friday, April 9, 2010

The stage is set with laundry on the line, a cow in the barn and a spider web hanging in the rafters. Cousin P-U welcomes the audience to the final dress rehearsal of E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web. All of us in the audience are old enough to have grandchildren, so maybe we appreciate even more the hard work that these young people have put into preparing their lines and their costumes and developing their characters to share with us. Right from the start, Fern (played by Shayd Williams) is there to stand up for the runt pig and by mutual agreement between Fern and the pig, he is named Wilbur (played by Grace Terry). This is one pig with a tail wiggling attitude. Wilbur came make you laugh and groan and I must admit that in the final goodbye between Wilbur and Charlotte (played by Jessica Decocq), my eyes teared up a bit.

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