LEND ME A TENOR
Presented by Fairfield Footlighters
May 22-31
Fairfield
Directed by Heidi Schiller
Cast: Ryan Shafranek as Max, Katie Groneman as Maggie, Kevin Noll as Saunders, Coby Osborne as Tito Merelli, Mary Puetz as Maria, Taylor Greatbatch as the Bellhop, April Osborne as Diana & Melissa Noll as Julia
LEND ME A TENOR is a door-slamming, dress-dropping farce with mistaken identities, mischievous misunderstandings and compromising positions. It is the biggest night in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, and world-famous Italian tenor Signor Tito Merelli will be their guest artist in Otello, the highlight of the company’s most important fundraiser for the 1934 season. But Tito’s troubled life, his hot-headed wife, and a “Dear John” letter, mistaken as Tito’s suicide note, sends everybody’s head swimming. No Tito, no $50,000 in ticket sales. Meanwhile, Max, an opera-singer-wanna-be, is coerced into impersonating the Italian great to save the show. In costume, wig and make-up, he’s is a dead ringer for the dead singer. But can Max find the courage to go on with the show? The surprises have just begun in this superbly crafted, eye-watering farce.
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