Imagination Theater’s Lend Me a Tenor, directed by Jody Klemens, is hitting all the right notes and delighting audiences this month.  Winner of three Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and the Olivier Award for Best Comedy of the Year, Lend Me a Tenor is a wildly entertaining farce.   Set in 1934, Saunders, general manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is ready to welcome renowned tenor Tito Merelli, who is scheduled to sing the lead in the opera ‘Otello.’.  The star arrives late and is not feeling well, and through a set of crazy circumstances, passes out.  Believing that ‘Il Stupendo’ is dead, the excitable opera manager convinces his hapless assistant, an aspiring singer named Max, to suit up as the Moor and replace Merelli.  What follows is a laugh-out-loud chain reaction of mistaken identity, farcical plot twists, double entendres, and musical mayhem.  The New York Times calls Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor “one of the two great farces by a living writer.”

Lend Me a Tenor continues through March 6 on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00 pm, and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $17, and $13 on Thursdays and for groups of 10 or more.  Tickets are 2 for 1 on March 5 in the theater’s “March Mad About Theater” promotion. This lighthearted comedy is rated PG13. 

Tickets may be purchased at www.imaginationtheater.net or by calling 1-800-838-3006. Imagination Theater, located inside the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, brings quality, live, local community theater to Placerville and El Dorado County.