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Article: 'Charlotte's Web' is full of life.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(THEATER)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2004
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Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
This year, the holiday spirit can be found in a barn.
Not the Pottery Barn, but in the woodshed at a rural farm, where Wilbur the pig (Steve Wannall) and Charlotte the spider (Dawn Ursula) have taken up residence. The story of their great friendship is chronicled in E.B. White's classic 1952 children's book "Charlotte's Web," which is brought to life by Imagination Stage with all its melancholy and simple goodness gloriously intact.
"Charlotte's Web" touches on kindness, salvation, and the cycle of life without pandering to children or shielding them from the universal truth that things die, yet ...