Lend Me a Tenor(play)?

Question:my school's doing it for our annual play, can someone tell me what it's about and what some of the lead parts are like?

also, can you tell me what time it takes place because i'm black and alot of the plays we do take place "back then" and i usually don't get a part cuz it's not historically accurate or stuck playing some slave...

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: my school's doing it for our annual play, can someone tell me what it's about and what some of the lead parts are like?

also, can you tell me what time it takes place because i'm black and alot of the plays we do take place "back then" and i usually don't get a part cuz it's not historically accurate or stuck playing some slave...

don't listen to TR... I played Max a few years back and we cast an african american woman in the role of Julia. there is nothing wrong with it... I love this show! I have never done a show that was this much fun. the curtain call is the show in 80 seconds. its great! good luck!

never heard of it...

It's a farce about an opera company in Cleveland OH back in the early 1900s--so no, there are absolutely no roles for African-American females in it, the female roles are a young operatic soprano, a young secretary to the opera company, an old opera patroness, and the wife of the Italian tenor.

Your only hope is a color-blind casting policy (which I doubt will happen--sorry).

The play takes place in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1934. I can't think of any good reason not to cast a black woman in any of the female roles. (In one scene, one of the male characters tells one of the other male characters that he's not right for the lead in Verdi's "Otello" because he's not black, but I don't see how that would affect the casting of the female roles.)

Its a fun play. Its acting, it should not matter what you race is in any event, is your school stuck in the 1950s?? The following is a link to a short biography of Marian Anderson - she was one of America's greatest Opera singers and concertizes. She was active at the time the play takes place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Ande...