Curiosity: Piqued.

[fancycwabs]

An email I received last night, edited to protect various identities:

Dear Cast,

During the performance this morning, $DIRECTOR noticed a few actors drastically altering their characters in unpleasant ways. At his request, I am sending this e-mail so that this does NOT happen again. Those of you who are guilty, know who you are. While you may think it is funny, it is simply unacceptable. Please fix this problem immediately. If you have any questions please let me know.

$STAGEMANAGER

Since we have day casts and night casts for A Christmas Carol, and the night cast (which includes yours truly) hasn't had a performance in several days--I'm assuming this is relating to the day cast. I'm curious as to what might have happened: Sudden change to Jamaican accents? More onstage drunkenness than usual? The mysterious reappearance of the magical fart machine? The mind boggles!

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"Everyone else" includes a fair number of fourteen and fifteen year olds, especially among the males in the cast, so there's a good chance that suddenly some Cockney lamplighters became jive-talking lamplighters or gay lamplighters, which could be hilarious to the under-18 set but wrong, offensive, and detrimental to the show.