Lend Me A Tenor at Long Beach Performing Arts Center

International City Theatre presents the two-time Tony-nominated screwball comedy by Ken Ludwig thats guaranteed to leave audiences rolling in the aisles with laughter. Culture-climbers in provincial but pretentious Cleveland are threatened with embarrassment when Il Stupendo, the Italian tenor theyve imported to sing Pagliacci, may prove to be indisposed (or even worse) at the last minute. In this quintessential farce replete with six slamming doors and a phone that never stops ringing, members of the Cleveland Opera Company frantically try to keep the show going when the star cant go on. The antics accelerate at full tilt, with one case of mistaken identity after another in this hilarious combination of slapstick, word play, romance and great opera music! International City Theatre at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach, CA 90802; (562) 436-4610; InternationalCityTheatre.org.

Authors

• Ken Ludwig

Tony Awards and Nominations for Lend Me A Tenor