{"id":113662,"date":"2021-10-01T10:33:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=113662"},"modified":"2021-10-05T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:12:18","slug":"dayton-com-5-reasons-to-see-lend-me-a-tenor-at-wright-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/10\/01\/dayton-com-5-reasons-to-see-lend-me-a-tenor-at-wright-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton.com: 5 reasons to see \u2018Lend Me a Tenor\u2019 at Wright State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Wright State University delivers an enjoyably amusing production of Ken Ludwig\u2019s 1989 Tony Award-nominated farce \u201cLend Me a Tenor,\u201d continuing through Sunday, Oct. 3 in the Festival Playhouse of the Creative Arts Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ludwig\u2019s romp, briskly directed by Joe Deer, is set in a luxurious Cleveland hotel suite circa 1934 (scenic designer Pam Knauert Lavarnway and costumer Zo\u00eb Still strikingly capture the period). Mistaken identity and slamming doors abound when beloved Italian opera star Tito Merelli is unable to appear in \u201cPagliacci.\u201d Looking for a replacement, Cleveland Grand Opera general manager Henry Saunders asks his loyal assistant Max to assume the role. Madness quickly ensues.<\/p>\n

Here are five reasons to see Wright State\u2019s season opener, featuring an entirely masked cast due to health and safety protocols.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1. Guaranteed laughs from start to finish<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hailed by critics as \u201cthe most inventive, original farce in a long time\u201d and \u201ca furiously paced comedy with more than a touch of the Marx brothers,\u201d \u201cLend Me a Tenor\u201d remains one of the most popular American farces of the last 35 years. \u201cWe want to welcome our audiences back with an evening of pure silliness,\u201d said Deer, in a release. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s a chance to revisit one of my favorite plays and to teach students how this kind of comedy works \u2013 and they are very quick studies. This promises to be one of the most delightful shows we\u2019ve ever done. I know our audiences will leave the theatre exhausted from laughing.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Read the complete article at Dayton. com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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