presented by South Arkansas Arts Center
Southern Bancorp and Teague Auto Group
MARCH 4, 6 & 10-13
Curtain at 7:30pm, except for Sunday at 2:30pm
Tickets $20, SAAC Members $15, Students $10
Dinner and a Show on March 5
Dinner Seating at 6:00pm
Tickets $75
A Free Flowing Rollercoaster of Non Stop Fun!
Superbly Funny Screwball Door-Slammer!
A Three-Ring Circus of Chaos and Laughter!
One of the Classic Comedies of the 20th Century!
Fiercely Funny and Truly Clever!
Ridiculously Funny Slamming Good Time!
It’s a Laugh a Minute!
Howlingly Funny!
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Winner! 3 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards
Nominee! 2010 Tony Award, Best Revival of a Play
“An accelerating snowball of laughter, Lend Me A Tenor has the class and charm of a Kaufman and Hart comedy plus all the door-slamming hilarity of a Marx Brothers’ classic like Room Service.” – Jim Helsinger, PA Shakespeare Festival
“Fills the theatre with the sound of laughter.” – The Sunday Express, London
“A remarkable piece of theatre… a masterpiece… Author Ken Ludwig has verve, a sound grasp of plot mechanics and a rare ability to couple high art with low comedy.” – The London Times
“One of two great farces by a living writer.” – The New York Times
Emily Cole • MAGGIE Spirited and quirky, Maggie is the daughter of Saunders and a music lover. Besotted with Tito and dreams of a great romantic fling before she settles down, she is, for now, refusing to marry Max.
Deondre Jackson • SAUNDERS Authoritarian, excitable. Head of the Cleveland opera company. Worried that things will go wrong – and doesn’t handle it too well when everything does.
Steve Harrell • TITO MERELLI World class Italian opera singer (think Pavorotti) with an appetite for wine, women, and women. Oh and yes, song. Tito speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Laura Barrow • MARIA Maria is a beautiful, but moody and hot-blooded Italian woman who is married to Tito. Sophia Loren type. Maria is extremely jealous of Tito’s philandering and she is ready to call it quits. Maria speaks in a thick Italian accent.
Matthew Cordell • BELLHOP Italian-speaking, opera-singing, hardworking, all-knowing bellhop who is desperate to get a picture with Tito.
Amy Smith • DIANA (4 female & 5 male) Very ambitious and sexy soprano who wants to use Tito to further her career aspirations. She’s willing to do anything for the favor.
Joanna Benson • JULIA Society matron. President of the Opera Guild. Desperate to hobnob with Tito.

Producer Shawn Dartez
Producer Thomas Brewster
Director Austin Barrow
Assistant Director Laura Doyle
Master Carpenter Paul Choate
Lighting Design Colleen Means
Scenic Painter Darrin Riley
Stage Manager Paul Choate

An El Dorado native, Barrow’s involvement at SAAC began during childhood with children’s drama classes. Most recently at SAAC he directed the 2014 spring production of “The 39 Steps” and performed in the two man show “A Steady Rain” in 2015. He has taught theatre courses at the University of Arkansas and Andrew College. Barrow is currently the President/COO of El Dorado Festivals & Events.
March 4-6 & 10-13
Tickets $20, Members $15, Students $10
Tickets $75 for Dinner & Show March 5
If you have any doubt this show is a roller coaster on not stop laughs, check out this montage from the broadway show.
Lend Me A Tenor, a comedy by Ken Ludwig
presented by South Arkansas Arts Center
Southern Bancorp and Teague Auto Group
Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Thanks for coming to the show! We hope you enjoyed it!!!