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Crimma Carol swing role the first is Village Toymaker, which fits in with Dickens not a whit, but doubtless pleases the children in the audience. Our blocking is thus: Freddy (Scrooge's nephew and the narrator for the show), in the process of setting the scene for the audience, introduces them to the village poulterer, busy choking his chicken for Christmas cheer; the baker, Mrs. Lovett, making delightful meat pies; and the toymaker, who brings out two children playing wind up dolls. I was told to kinda shove them out onstage, but the two girls playing the dolls (a ballerina and a soldier) are small enough to physically carry (they're about the same physical size, although the soldier's probably got ten pounds on the ballerina. No, I don't tell them that.)

I want so badly to have the ballerina and soldier run through their routines, and for the soldier to drop the mechanical pretense and shout "I'm a real boy!" to which Freddy can respond, "Wrong show."

I don't think they'll go for it, though.

(This particular adaptation has added a character named Sally Brass, who sells anything except "what ain't good and proper," and who owes Scrooge money that he tries to collect just before returning home to his haunted door knocker. I also want that exchange to include: "Where's my money, bitch?" and some pimp-slapping. Also unlikely.)