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Monday, October 20, 2014

UNLIKELY ALLIANCE YIELDS POWERFUL LIFE LESSONS IN “CHARLOTTE’S WEB”

Charlotte'sWebVerticalCHARLOTTE’S WEB

WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 1 at 2 PM and 4 PM 
WHERE:
Mercer County Community College’s Kelsey Theatre on the college’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road.
TICKETS: $10 for children and seniors, and $12 for adults. Tickets may be purchased online at www.kelseytheatre.net or by calling the Kelsey Theatre Box Office at 609.570.3333. Free parking is available next to the theatre.

Young audiences will learn moving lessons of friendship and love delivered by a most unlikely duo—a spider and a pig!—as Theatreworks USA presents the heartwarming musical Charlotte’s Web. (Image: clockwise from top, Donna Michelle as Charlotte, Rhett Ransom Pennell as Farmer Zuckerman and Robert Chew as Wilbur.  Photo by Jean-Marie Guyaux.) 

Charlotte'sWebHorizontalTheatreworks' production of Charlotte's Web is based on E.B. White's tender tale of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte. Wilbur has a problem: how to avoid winding up as pork chops! Charlotte, a fine writer and true comrade, hits on a plan to fool Farmer Zuckerman—she will create a "miracle." Spinning the words "Some Pig" in her web, Charlotte weaves a solution that not only makes Wilbur a prize pig, but ensures his place on the farm forever. This treasured tale, featuring mad-cap and endearing farm animals, explores bravery, selfless love and the true meaning of friendship. (Above top from left, Rhett Ransom Pennell, Larissa Paige Kokernot and Cullen Douglas; bottom from left, Robert Chew and Fred Mailiszewski.  Photo by Jean-Marie Guyaux)

Based in New York City, Theatreworks USA is America's largest and most prolific professional not-for-profit theater company for youth and family audiences. Since 1961, the company has enlightened, entertained and instructed more than 90 million people in 49 states and Canada.

Kelsey Theatre is wheelchair accessible and provides assisted listening devices upon request. For a complete listing of adult and children's events, visit the Kelsey website or call the box office for a brochure.