Lice have invaded the scalps of the singing, dancing kids who helped propel the Broadway musical Matilda to five Tony Awards in 2013, according to a report in The New York Daily News.
While these children may be miniature triple threats, they're not superkids. The paper reported this week that "at least six of the children" have lice, and that "[t]he production is in chaos because they're trying to keep it a secret from other actors and even some of the other children."
Our scalps begin to tingle with doubt (although I suppose it could be lice) when we hear a phrase like "the production is in chaos." Somehow I can't picture panicky hush-hush emergency conference calls and 16 children running around backstage barreling into their guardians and tearing their hair out. Itchy lice could certainly be an annoying distraction when you've got to go on stage and entertain tourists who've paid enormous prices to see you tear it up.
An angry itch? Sure. But chaos? We hope and suspect not.
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