NewsPHOTO CALL: Lend Me a Tenor Opens on BroadwayAnthony LaPaglia, Tony Shalhoub and Justin Bartha star in the Broadway revival of Ken Ludwig's Tony-nominated, door-slamming operatic farce Lend Me a Tenor, which opened April 4 at the Music Box Theatre.
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Krissie Fullerton
April 05, 2010
Tony and Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci is making his Broadway directorial debut with the first Broadway revival of the 1989 comedy.
The cast features Tony winner Anthony LaPaglia, Golden Globe winner Tony Shalhoub ("Monk"), Justin Bartha ("The Hangover"), Tony nominee Jan Maxwell (The Royal Family, Coram Boy), Mary Catherine Garrison (Assassins, Rabbit Hole), Tony nominee Jennifer Laura Thompson (Urinetown, Wicked), Jay Klaitz (High Fidelity) and Brooke Adams (The Heidi Chronicles, "Monk") as Julia.
The 1930s-set play is billed as "a madcap screwball comedy that takes place when Tito Merelli, the fiery-tempered and world-famous Italian superstar, arrives in Cleveland, Ohio to make his debut with the local opera and promptly goes missing. As Saunders, the show's presenter, conspires to cover for Tito's absence, placate his hot-blooded wife, and distract his most passionate fans, chaos on a truly operatic level ensues."
Here's a look at the opening night:
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Lend Me a Tenor Opens on Broadway
Lend Me a Tenor Opens on Broadway
Anthony LaPaglia, Tony Shalhoub and Justin Bartha star in the Broadway revival of Ken Ludwig's Tony-nominated, door-slamming operatic farce Lend Me a Tenor, which opened April 4 at the Music Box Theatre. Read the Playbill.com story.
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Jan Maxwell, Mary Catherine Garrison, Tony Shalhoub, Brooke Adams, Jennifer Laura Thompson and Anthony LaPaglia
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.
