Lend Me A Tenor Comes to Fine Arts Centre Theatre Co. March 20 - April 5

The Fine Arts Center Theatre Company will present the Tony Award-nominated comedy Lend Me A Tenor at the SaGāJi Theatre from March 20 - April 5.

Set in 1934 at the gala season opening night of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, world famous tenor Tito Merelli (Il Stupendo) is set to perform his greatest role, Otello. Through a series of riotous mishaps, Merelli is given a double dose of tranquilizers, passes out and is assumed dead. Max, an aspiring singer, gets into one of Merelli's two costumes and succeeds in performing the leading role, but Merelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume, and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo.

"It seems every time we turn around these days there is something else that is depressing. One thing that seems to be missing is laughter," says Theatre Company Producing Artistic Director, Alan Osburn. "This is a funny play. Laugh out loud funny. If you want to get away from all of this depressing news for a while come see this play. You will have a great time."

The director, Cory Moosman, directed last season's recording breaking FAC Theatre Company production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Moosman was also recently seen on stage at the Fine Arts Center as Dave in The Full Monty.

Brian McClure, who plays Max, was last seen at the FAC in The 1940's Radio Hour. For the past seven years, McClure has been the lead singer of the popular Colorado Springs band, Head Full of Zombies.

Thaddeus Valdez (Tito Merelli) performed in 23 productions at the Country Dinner Playhouse, and has numerous national and regional credits. He earned the 2005 Rocky Mountain News ‘Top Musical Theatre Actor' award. Denver-based actor T. David Rutherford (Saunders) recently performed in TheatreWorks' The Lying Kind. Soprano Nan Rubley (Diana) has performed at the Colorado Opera Festival and with the Opera Theatre of the Rockies. At the Fine Arts Center, she acted in Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Into the Woods.

Other stand outs include Amy Brooks (A Christmas Carol, Brighton Beach Memoirs), who has earned two local ‘Best Actress' PAPPA Awards; Brantley Scott Haines (The Beast in Beauty and the Beast, The Full Monty); Sue Bachman (Into the Woods, Nuncrackers), and Eva Alabaugh, making her FAC debut.

 

 

 

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