Lend Me A Tenor
It's Max!Julia & Saunders
What the!
Julia and Tito
Tea?
Two!
Lend me a tenor or two!
Set in 1934, the renowned tenor Tito Merelli is scheduled to sing the lead in Othello. The opera is being produced as a fundraiser and unfortunately, even before the Merelli leaves his hotel room, everything begins to unravel. Chaos ensues when Merelli’s wife, who has mistaken an autograph-seeker hidden in his closet for a secret lover, leaves him a ”Dear John” letter. The distraught Merelli accidentally is given a double dose of tranquilizers to calm him and passes out. Saunders, the company’s General Manager, is determined that the show will go on for his own financial sake, so he asks his assistant Max to impersonate the opera star. Max puts on the blackface makeup required for the role of Othello, and his disguise succeeds admirably – until Merelli, also in blackface, wakes up and heads for the stage. What follows is a chain-reaction of mistaken identity, farcical plot twists, double entendres, innuendoes, and constant entrances and exits through many doors.
Maria and Max
