(From left) Director Laura Kepley goes over lines with actors Lena Kaminsky, Marinda Anderson and Mia Knight, during a rehearsal of "A Carol for Cleveland" in the Cleveland Play House rehearsal hall at the Cleveland State University Arts Campus. The play is by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble from the 1991 novella by Les Roberts of Stow. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

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Actors Elliot Lockshine, (left) and Charles Kartali work on a scene during a rehearsal of "A Carol for Cleveland" in the Cleveland Play House rehearsal hall at the Cleveland State University Arts Campus. The play is by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble from the 1991 novella by Les Roberts of Stow. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

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Actors (from left) Mia Knight, 11, Peter Lawson Jones, Marinda Anderson, Lena Kaminsky, Elliot Lockshine, 10, Robert Ellis and Charles Kartali work on a scene during a rehearsal of "A Carol for Cleveland" in the Cleveland Play House rehearsal hall at the Cleveland State University Arts Campus. The play is by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble from the 1991 novella by Les Roberts of Stow. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

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Actor Robert Ellis portraying Steve Torbic tickles Elliot Lockshine, 10, portraying his son Charlie Torbic during a rehearsal of "A Carol for Cleveland" in the Cleveland Play House rehearsal hall at the Cleveland State University Arts Campus. The play is by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble from the 1991 novella by Les Roberts of Stow. Actors Lena Kaminsky, Mia Knight, 11, and Marinda Anderson are background right. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

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Director Laura Kepley (left) tells actor Elliot Lockshine, 10, where he should be in a scene with actor Charles Kartali (right) during a rehearsal of "A Carol for Cleveland" in the Cleveland Play House rehearsal hall at the Cleveland State University Arts Campus. The play is by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble from the 1991 novella by Les Roberts of Stow. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

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Actors (from left) Robert Ellis, Charles Kartali and Peter Lawson Jones work on a scene during a rehearsal of "A Carol for Cleveland" in the Cleveland Play House rehearsal hall at the Cleveland State University Arts Campus. The play is by Cleveland Heights playwright Eric Coble from the 1991 novella by Les Roberts of Stow. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)

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Les Roberts, writer of the novella Carol For Cleveland. (Ann Sanfedele)

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