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Lend Me A Tenor is a perfect classic farce in the fine old tradition of Feydeau, complete with slamming doors, girls hiding in closets and bathrooms, hi-jinx, over-complicated intrigues, double entendres, and mistaken identities.
Lend Me A Tenor deliasherman 2010
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Rando characterizes "Fox" as following the pattern established in "Tenor," which debuted on Broadway in 1989 and featured characters who the director says are "willing to burst a blood vessel" to get what they want.
Ken Ludwig returns to Signature Theatre with golf farce 'A Fox in the Fairway' Nelson Pressley 2010
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Lend Me A Tenor is a perfect classic farce in the fine old tradition of Feydeau, complete with slamming doors, girls hiding in closets and bathrooms, hi-jinx, over-complicated intrigues, double entendres, and mistaken identities.
Lend Me A Tenor deliasherman 2010
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But General Tenor is a pretty good pun in itself — although it does conjure the vision of an operatic military type from an absrudist children's show.
Fragende Ode Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Well, this loud guy hereafter known as The Tenor was way into the judgement.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints... The Pedgehog 2007
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Well, this loud guy hereafter known as The Tenor was way into the judgement.
Archive 2007-06-01 The Pedgehog 2007
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As fans know, John is known as The Tenor, because of his classical training and his time spent singing in opera companies.
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London Theater "Lend Me a Tenor" is a comedic musical by Peter Sham about mistaken identities, featuring Matthew Kelly, Michael Matus and Damian Humbley under the direction of Ian Talbot.
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Von Bülow's Characterization: "A Tenor is a Disease"
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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Both were lawyers, but Ludwig gradually withdrew from Steptoe and Johnson when "Tenor" and "Crazy for You" made it clear he really could make it writing for the stage.
Ken Ludwig returns to Signature Theatre with golf farce 'A Fox in the Fairway' Nelson Pressley 2010
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