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Lend Me a Tenor

by Ken Ludwig · 1986

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A concert in Ohio in 1934 is jeopardized when the lead Italian tenor falls into a drunken'stupor. So the impresario's diminutive assistant blacks up and goes on as Otello. The tenor awakens, dons his costume, and thence follows a hilarious comedy involving two Otellos, a volatile Italian wife, an outrageous bellhop and a cynical impresario.

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Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisClevelandClevelandMore like thisLess of thisOhioOhioMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 114 pages
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