Plymouth's Mark Estano starring in Milton Players "Lend Me A Tenor"

Mark Estano has been cast as Max — the leading role and a comic actor's dream — in Ken Ludwig's Tony Award winning romp, "Lend Me A Tenor." Since the part also requires significant operatic performances of arias from Verdi's "Otello," Estano, who is a graduate of Boston University's School of Theatre Arts with well developed talents in all the necessary areas and more, a natural to play Max. 
Max is the impromptu replacement for quixotic world famous tenor “Il Stupendo,” who has passed out from a mismatch in his medications and cannot go on at the gala opening of Cleveland Grand Opera’s production of “Otello.” If anything could be worse than being expected to sing Verdi without a rehearsal, it might be fielding the flock of women caroming around the Italian superstar’s bed and bath. 

Besides the side-splitting effects of the ensuing calamity, there is also some great music. Both Estano as Max and his counterpart Alberto Rizzotti of Berkley, MA,  as “Il Stupendo,” perform floridly amidst the chaos. The Milton Players production of this outragously over the top Ken Ludwig comedy is the inaugural offering of their Season 79.
Estano has been active in local theater for several years including recently Noël Coward's "Present Laughter" at Plymouth Center for the Arts and numerous productions with Shakespeare in the Park and other regional companies.  

Dates: Fri. & Sat., Nov. 4 & 5 and Nov.11 & 12 at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinee Nov. 13 at 2 p.m.Location: Milton Woman’s Club, 90 Reedsdale Rd. (Rt. 28) in Milton, MATickets: miltonplayers.org or call the Milton Players Show Phone at 617-698-SHOW (7469)