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Lend Me a Soprano (Ludwig)

Lend Me a Soprano (Ludwig)
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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

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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