Lend Me A Tenor is a hysterical farce, portraying the follies of a small-time opera company in its attempt to accommodate a world-class tenor.

Set in September of 1934, the play centers around what is expected to be the biggest night in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. The world-famous tenor, Tito Merelli, is to perform his greatest role, Otello, at the gala season-opener. Saunders, the opera’s General Manager, has high hopes that Merelli’s performance will put Cleveland on the “operatic map”. The success of the opera company depends on the tenor who has a weakness for wine and women.

However Merelli arrives late, leaving no time to rehearse with the rest of the company before the performance. Then his fiery-tempered wife finds an autograph seeker in the tenor's closet. This starts a series of mishaps beginning with "Il Stupendo" taking a double dose of tranquilizers mixed with the booze he consumed. When he passes out, his pulse is so low that Saunders and his assistant Max believe he is dead. When Tito wife's "Dear John" letter is mistaken for suicide note, the company stands to lose $50,000 in ticket sales unless they can find a way for the "dead" singer to deliver the performance of his life!

Max is an aspiring singer and Saunders persuades him to get into Merelli's Otello costume and try to fool the audience into thinking he's Il Stupendo. Max succeeds admirably, but Merelli comes to and gets into his other costume. Now two Otellos are running around in costume and two women are running around in lingerie, each thinking she is with Il Stupendo!

Synopsis of the Scene:
Time : September 1934
Place : A hotel suite in Cleveland, Ohio
Act I
Scene 1 :	Early afternoon on a Saturday in September
Scene 2 :	Four hours later
Act II:
Scene 1 :	That night, about 11 o'clock
Scene 2 :	Fifteen minutes later