Opera stars often describe recitals as a high-wire act. With no costumes, scenery or other singers to distract the listener, a singer’s voice — warts and all — is laid naked before an audience. If ...
WORCESTER - It is the tenor who begins the vocal proceedings in Handel's "Messiah," with the opening recitative "Comfort Ye" and the wonderful aria, "Every valley shall be exalted." When the chorus ...
The farce "LEND ME A TENOR", hits a high note, at the Carrollwood Players in Tampa, through June 8th. The story takes place in Cleveland, 1934, in a swanky hotel suite. Renowned tenor, Tito Merrelli ...
NEW YORK -- Justin Bartha is losing weight. It's not like he's trying to, or that he even needs to, but his work on stage in the Broadway revival of "Lend Me a Tenor," a slam-bang farce by Ken Ludwig, ...
"Actor proof" is a condescending, offensive phrase. So let's not even think about it. However, playwright Ken Ludwig's dependable romantic farce, "Lend Me a Tenor," is always amusing audiences ...
Funny is relative. If the last comic on a stand-up bill doesn’t stink, and the previous four weren’t funny at all, No. 5 starts looking like a comic genius. The theatrical equivalent to that fifth ...