Lend Me A Tenor
Music Box Theatre
Previews Began: March 12, 2010
Opening Night: April 4, 2010
Closing Night: August 15, 2010
Playwright: Ken Ludwig
World-renowned tenor Tito Merelli has signed on to play Otello at a Cleveland opera company in the fall of 1934. He arrives late and, through a set of crazy circumstances, passes out after mixing wine with a huge dose of tranquilizers. Believing that the divo is dead, the excitable opera manager taps his hapless assistant, an aspiring singer named Max, to suit up as the Moor and replace Merelli. Meanwhile, the tenor’s jealous wife, his ambitious female co-star, Max’s young girlfriend and the flirtatious head of the opera guild are on the scene fighting—sometimes literally—for the star’s attention.
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Justin Bartha Max
Anthony LaPaglia Tito Merelli
Tony Shalhoub Saunders
Brooke Adams Julia
Mary Catherine Garrison Maggie
Jay Klaitz Bellhop
Jan Maxwell Maria
Jennifer Laura Thompson Diana
Understudies: Jessie Austrian (Maggie/Diana), Tony Carlin (Saunders/Tito Merelli), Donna English (Maria/Julia), Brian Sears (Max/Bellhop)
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