Lend Me a Tenor

Auditions! - Rescheduled!

Monday, February 20 2012
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
at the Leo J. Welder Center
-home to Theatre Victoria

Theatre Victoria will hold open auditions for LEND ME A TENOR, the final show in the theatre's 2011-2012 season, on Monday, February 13, 2012, 7:00 – 9:30 pm in the Welder Center rehearsal hall.

Performance dates are: April 13-15 & 19-21, 2012

LEND ME A TENOR is a door-slamming, dress-dropping farce with mistaken identities, mischievous misunderstandings and compromising positions …

… It is the biggest night in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, and world-famous Italian tenor Signor Tito Merelli will be their guest artist in "Otello," highlight of the company's most important fundraiser for the 1934 season. But, Tito's troubled life, his hot-headed wife, and a "Dear John" letter mistaken as Tito's suicide note, sends everybody's head spinning. No Tito – no $50,000 in ticket sales. Meanwhile, Max an opera-singer wanna-be, is coerced into impersonating the Italian great in order to save the show. But when Tito reappears, the comedy and mayhem ensue.

Director, Staci Robbins is looking for 8 comic actors: 4 men age 20s to 50, 4 women ages 20s to 60s. Auditions will consist of readings from the script. All those auditioning should arrive by 7 pm.

Character Breakdown:

• Saunders : 50-ish male. Imagine Dr. Frasier Crane as the head of an opera company. Now imagine that Lucciano Pavarotti has agreed to appear there for a benefit performance. Now imagine that everything goes wrong.
• Max: 30-ish male. If George Costanza and Woody Allen became one, Max would be born! A ner-do-well nerd who dearly loves Maggie, Dealry loves opera, and desperately longs for courage. Works under Saunders.
• Maggie: 20-something female. Saunders' vapid daughter. Spoiled and demanding.
• Tito Merelli: 40-something male. Life-loving, over-indulgent world-class tenor, with a passion for food, wine and women.
• Maria: 40-ish female. Tito's wife. Moody, hot-blooded, hot-tempered, sexy Italian. Jealous and territorial.
• Julia: 50s-60s female. The Grand Dam of Cleveland in 1934 society. President of the Opera Guild.
• Diana: Ageless female. Plays dumb, but is truly dumb … like a fox! Flirt.
• Bellhop: 20-something male. A wiseguy. The eyes, ears and mouth of the hotel.