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Lend Me a Soprano (Ludwig)
Lend Me a Soprano (Ludwig)
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Author: Ken Ludwig Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 130 Pub. Date: 2023 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573710473 ISBN-13: 9780573710476 Cast Size: 5 female, 3 male
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About
the Play:
Lend Me a Soprano has become a favourite of acting teachers
for Female/Male Scenes.
Lend Me a Soprano is a full-length comedy by Ken Ludwig.
Based on the Tony Award-winning Lend Me A Tenor, the
roles are reversed and the ladies take the lead in this
side-splitting farce that
follows the chaotic
misadventures of a hapless opera company desperately trying to find a
replacement soprano in time for their performance, leading to a
hilariously tangled web of mistaken identities and comedic chaos.
Lend Me A Soprano is set in the 1930s. The clever and
combustible Lucille Wiley, Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera
Company, is ready to welcome world-class soprano Elena Firenzi for
her one-night-only starring role in Carmen. It will be a
career-defining moment for Lucille but the troublesome Elena arrives
late, her impassioned husband Pasquale has a fit of jealousy, and
Elena melts down. The show must go on, but how? Can Mrs. Wiley's
mousy but determined assistant Jo has to come up with a plan to save
the day in order to keep her job? Chaos ensues. Based on Ken Ludwig's
classic farce Lend Me A
Tenor, this madcap screwball comedy features ladies in the
leading roles and the hilarity that comes out of the colourful
characters as well as mistaken identities, double entendres and
seduction. And with any luck, a happy ending.
Lend Me a Soprano premiered in 2022 at the Alley Theatre in
Houston, Texas. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle
in acting classes and workshops and is regularly performed in
regional, high school, college, and community theatre productions.
Cast: 5 female, 3 male
What people say:
"An undeniable
crowd-pleaser... Turning the three leading male roles into women
overlays this pinwheel comedy with a warmer, deeper touch. It's still
a classic sex comedy with whiplash timing, men dropping their pants,
doors slamming, mistaken identity, and surprise entrances, but the
lead women add a lively touch to the finely-plotted machinations.
...[This] farce has found its heart. It's a sweet transformation."
— Houston Press
"Everything I desire in a
theatre production... Guaranteed to leave audiences teary-eyed with
laughter." — Broadway World
"A screwball delight, fast,
furious and consistently funny. Reworking his own tried-and-true
comedy Lend Me a Tenor with an effective gender reversal, Ludwig has
created a showpiece of controlled chaos, relentless but deceptively
thoughtful in its dissection of performative ego and pride. Mostly,
however, it's just a dizzying amount of fun... a singing,
door-slamming, bed-hopping whirlwind of a good time." —
Houston Chronicle
About the Playwright:
Ken Ludwig is an internationally acclaimed American
playwright whose work is performed throughout the world in more than
thirty countries in over twenty languages. He has written twenty-five
plays and musicals, with six Broadway productions and seven in
London's West End. He has also won two Laurence Olivier Awards and
the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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Ken Ludwig from the Alexandre Dumas novel
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