Summer Production
July 17th - July 20th 2025
Standing L to R: Terri Corigliano, Amy Bentley, Jim Abrams, Halli Gibson, Charles Rusciano Seating L to R: Ron St. John, Maggie Gillette, Mark Gilchrist
The Saybrook Stage Company returns to the Kate this summer with Ken Ludwig’s wildly popular, side-splitting farce LEND ME A TENOR. Chaos ensues at the Cleveland Grand Opera Guild when world-famous tenor, Tito Merelli arrives for a guest performance and is suddenly unable to perform. After the manager concocts a plan to disguise his assistant as the singer in order to save the production, revolving doors of mistaken identities, romantic entanglements and frantic attempts to pull off the masquerade provide plenty of laughs guaranteed to bring down the house!
Set in 1934, LEND ME A TENOR was originally produced on the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1989. It received nine Tony Award nominations and won for Best Actor and Best Director. The celebrated revival opened on Broadway in 2010
Cast
Max - Ron St. John
Maggie - Maggie Gillette
Saunders - Jim Abrams
Tito - Mark Gilchrist
Maria - Amy Bentley
Bellhop - Charles Rusciano
Diana - Terri Corigliano
Julia - Halli Gibson