Whose Line Is It Anyway?
"A rat is a rat"
What is Charlotte?
There are 5 characters depicted on the cover of E.B. White's novel. Name 3
What is Wilbur, Sheep, Goose, Charlotte, Fern?
This full name of the spider character in the play is based on the scientific term for her species, Araneus cavaticus
What is Charlotte A. Cavatica?
The playwright of the touring play partnered with Charles Strouse to create this version of Charlotte's Web
What is the musical?
This is how many different phrases get written in the web during the play
What is 4?
"A good life is much more important than just having a long life"
What is Wilbur?
Before writing Charlotte's Web, E.B. White found success with this 1945 children's novel
What is Stuart Little?
This animal sometimes lives to be 12 years old. So old!
What is a sheep
In 2020, Kasey adapted Charlotte's Web to be a live virtual perfromance for SRT. Name two of the digital platforms used in the process.
What is YouTube, OBS, Skype, and/or Zoom?
This is the number of children Charlotte has
What is 514?
"Needless to say, spiders can't write"
The President of the Fair
E.B White was inspired to write Charlotte's Web based in his experiences growing up on a farm in this state
What is Maine?
Pigs raised for slaughter usually only live 5-7 months. In the play Wilbur is about this many weeks old when he is sold to the Zuckerman's
What is 5 weeks old?
Our adaptation of Charlotte's Web was first produced by this theatre in NYC in July 1984.
What is Lincoln Center?
This is the number of different characters portrayed on stage in our production
What is 19?
Wilbur(1), Charlotte (2), Narrator (3), Templeton (4), Arable (5), Lurvy (6), Homer (7), Sheep (8), Avery (9), Fern (10), Goose (11), Gander (12), Mrs. Arable (13), Baby Spiders (14), Mr. Carter (15), Uncle (16), President (17), Spectator #1 (18), Spectator #2 (19)
"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer"
Wilbur
E.B. White received numerous awards for his novels. Name one award he received in his lifetime
What is:
Most baby spiders hatch when the weather gets warm, but a few hatch from their eggs during fall or winter. Wilbur watched Charlotte's egg sac all through the winter until they hatched.With this in mind, approximately how much tame passes over the course of the play?
What is 1 year?
In the touring adaptation, we never hear the names of these three characters. In the book their names are Joy, Aranea, and Nellie.
What is the three Baby Spiders who stay?
In 2006, a live action movie of Charlotte's Web was released. Name one actor from the film and their character
What is:
Dakota Fanning (Fern), Julia Roberts (Charlotte), Steve Buscemi (Templeton), Oprah (Gussie Goose), Dominic Scott Kay (Wilbur), Robert Redford (Horse), Sam Shepard (Narrator), Cedric the Entertainer (Golly Goose), Reba (Bessie Cow), John Cleese (Sheep), Kathy Bates (Bitsy Cow)
"Aren't you that 'radiant' pig who's supposed to be 'terrific'"
Spectator #1
E.B. stands for this.
Once E.B. started university at Cornell, he began going by Andy. The first president of Cornell University was named Andrew White, so there was a tradition at the school that all students who also had the last name White got the nickname Andy.
What is Elwyn Brooks?
Barn spiders, like Charlotte, can live up to this many years.
What is 2 years?
The 46th president of the U.S. shares this in common with the touring adaptation of Charlotte's Web
What is the name of the playwright! President Biden's full name is Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
This is the year E.B. White Published the novel Charlotte's Web
What is 1952?