If you need a little Christmas cheer, you can find it this weekend at Penn State Theatre at Shenango Campus of Penn State University.

The Penn State Nittany Players will present an adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" at 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

The cast is composed of Penn State Shenango and high school students as well as community members.

"There are 101 versions of the play," Director Tom Rookey said. "Everyone has the problem with how they get into it."

While the most popular version opens in Scrooge's accounting house, this adaptation, by Doris Baizley, begins with a group of actors organizing themselves for a performance, but the all-important Scrooge and Tiny Tim are missing.

The stage manager, a modern-day Scrooge played by David Schneider, Brookfield, feels he is too old to accept the main role. A prop girl, played by Katie Wilson, assumes the role of Tiny Tim.

"His (Scrooge's) age was not measured by the brittleness of his bones, but by the coldness of his heart," the director, played by Corey Moore, tells the stage manager to convince him to take the role.