MAGNOLIA – The Department of Theatre and Mass Communications at Southern Arkansas University will present Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me a Tenor” April 19-21 in Harton Theatre. Doors open each night at 6:30 p.m. with the show beginning at 7 p.m.
Admission for the production will be $2 for SAU students, faculty, and staff and $5 for the general public. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
Set in September 1934, the play concerns the biggest night in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company as world-famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello, his greatest role, as the gala season opener. Through a hilarious series of mishaps, ‘Il Stupendo’ is given a double dose of tranquilizers which mix with the booze he has consumed, and he passes out. His pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant believe he is dead.
What do they do now to save the show and themselves? You will have to attend the show to find out.
