Local favorite Glenn Ryan has been cast in Milton Players production of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor opening  Nov. 4. The show opens this week end with performances on Friday and Saturday @ 8:00 and a Sunday matinee @ 2:00. You can find complete ticket information here.

As the General Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company,  Ryan’s Saunders is an authoritarian,

uptight man with a short fuse, most of which he takes out on his daughter Maggie’s fiancé, Max. When

“Il Stupendo,” the Italian opera star who was supposed to sing Verdi’s “Otello,” takes a powder on a bad

case of mixed medications, Saunders thinks a thorough browbeating is the ticket to somehow

inducing Max to step into the role unrehearsed.

Besides the side-splitting effects of the ensuing calamity, there is also some great music. Both Mark

Estano as Max and his counterpart Alberto Rizzotti  as “Il Stupendo” perform floridly amidst the chaos.