Though now commonplace, acting was condemned in colonial times as “public lying,” with offenders being yanked off the streets with novelty-sized shepherd’s crooks. Embrace vaudevillainy with today’s GrouponLive deal for one ticket to see A Christmas Carol, presented by Great Lakes Theater at the Ohio Theatre at PlayhouseSquare. deal buyers will receive A-level seats, which places them in the orchestra or mezzanine. Choose from the following options:

• For $25, you get a ticket for one of the following shows (a $50 value):
• Wednesday, December 14, at 7:30 p.m.
• Thursday, December 15, at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, December 17, at 1:30 p.m.
• Thursday, December 22, at 1:30 p.m.

• Friday, December 23, at 1:30 p.m.<p>

• For $30, you get a ticket for one of the following shows (a $60 value):
• Friday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m.<p>

For the 23rd straight year, Great Lakes Theater stages its artistic director’s adaptation of Dickens’s classic morality tale with a multigenerational cast that brings more than 60 characters to life. As the light is drawn from the intimate theater’s domed ceiling, audience members slowly slip into a Victorian parlor, where a family congregates to enjoy the holiday classic over a boiling cauldron of eggnog. With Bob Cratchit toiling away on Christmas Eve in Ebenezer Scrooge’s office, spectators will abhor the miserly old man whose surname has entered the Yuletide lexicon. The theater’s passions will sway, however, after three ghosts visit Mr. Scrooge to teach him the true meaning of the holiday. Eerie lights wash over the stage and ominous groans rumble through the room as the production team’s special effects spotlight the supernatural. At the end of the 105-minute production, audience members, like Scrooge, will find a new appreciation for life, their fellow man, and the strong moral fiber of chains.