A Hearth's Warming Carol (plot idea!)

[Scootaloo]

Hey everyone!
I know it's a bit early, but...
I've had an idea for a Hearth's Warming IC celebration! My plan is that we as characters could recreate my personal FAVOURITE Christmas story and turn it into a fun event that all could be included in. This story is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and I hope you're all familiar with it, even if for the many film adaptations rather than the novel itself!
This story could, in my mind, be represented ICly in one of two ways:
1) An IC performance for the public and the Princesses in the same sort of format as Bardigan's previous plays. A script will be devised, a cast auditioned for ICly (including roles such as stage directors, costume designers, ect) and one or two nights near Hearth's Warming set aside for the performance to be played out. Could also coincide with the yearly play ponies put on at this time of year, like in the episode 'Hearth's Warming Eve'!
2) An actual IC plotline with real characters representing those in the original novel (or, indeed, novel characters being ponified and spoofed). The benefits of this would be that we could RP it out over a longer period of time than just a play, and it would get more ponies involved with a story that would genuinely concern them, but I realise that a few of you are uncomfortable with the idea of 'crossovers', so this would perhaps not be the best option for you.
Either way, I have added a poll on here for you to vote on (if this should happen at all) which method you think would be more appropriate. In both cases, however, I will need ponies to either spoof, adapt or ICly perform in order to represent the following original novel characters:

Ebenezer Scrooge
Jacob Marley's Ghost
Bob Cratchit
Elizabeth Cratchit
Tiny Tim
Belle (Scrooge's lost love)
Fezziwig (Scrooge's first employer)
The Ghost of Hearth's Warming (Christmas) Past
The Ghost of Hearth's Warming Present
The Ghost of Hearth's Warming Future

Those are the only ones which I believe are truly required - more minor characters can be arranged when and if anything is decided.
That's all I have to say - leave your comments about this idea below and vote on the poll!

WUB WUB,
Vinyl xxx

(P.S. Wizzes, this is MERELY a suggestion. I'm not trying to impose anything on anyone, I just thought it was a nice idea for a sweet IC performance during the festive season! <3)

[Nettleglum]

Nettie was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of her burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hoof to.

Nettie was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hooves shall not disturb it, or Equestria's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Nettie was as dead as a door-nail.

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[Rarity]

*Waves a hoof* Oh, oh, I'd be EVER so good at giving the most delightful gifts!! I should like to play the ghost of Christmas Past!

[Apple Bloom]

Marble would be awesome as the ghost of the present.

[Solar Solstice]

Nightshade for future

[eclipse]

But what part would /I/ play? Oh I could do future, just...all in shadows! BWA HAHA SHADOWPONY.

[Skyheart]

Sky could possibly be Bob Crachett.

[creampuff]

Cream Puff could be Belle

[Sugar Rush]

*wonders if he would be good in a part?*