Lend Me A Tenor

Genre: Play-Farce/Rating: PG13
Length: 2 Hours
Dates: June 11-27, 2026
Synopsis: Winner of 3 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards, Lend Me A Tenor is set in
September 1934. Saunders, the general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is
primed to welcome world-famous singer Tito Merelli, known as Il Stupendo, the greatest tenor of
his generation, to appear for one night only as the star of the opera. Tito arrives late, and
through a hilarious series of mishaps, he is given a double dose of tranquilizers and passes out.
His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he’s dead – and in a frantic
attempt to salvage the evening, Saunders persuades Max to get into Merelli’s costume and fool
the audience into thinking he’s Il Stupendo. Max succeeds and lives up to his idol, but Merelli
regains consciousness and gets into the identical costume, ready to perform. Now two opera
singers are running around in the same costume and two women are running around in lingerie,
each thinking she is with Il Stupendo. A sensation on Broadway and in London’s West End, this
madcap, screwball comedy is guaranteed to leave audiences teary-eyed with laughter.