The Communication Arts Department of
Eastern Nazarene College presents
The
Odd Couple - Female!
Neil Simon’s witty gender reversal of the classic
comedy of stage, screen, and television.
May 20-22
7:00 pm
Cove Fine Arts Center
Eastern Nazarene College
Tickets $7.00
Box office 617-745-3715
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Dysfunctional and reluctant roommates
“Florence” Unger and “Olive” Madison, both in exile from failed marriages
are indeed an odd couple: Florence is compulsively neat, Olive is
a slob. Together they’re attempting to rebuild their lives, find
romance, and keep from killing each other in their all-too-cramped apartment
set in 1980s Upper West Side New York City. All the beloved characters
are here, just with different chromosomes: Murray the cop becomes
“Mickey” the policewoman, who joins Florence and Olive for weekly Trivial
Pursuit games instead of poker, and the giggly English Pigeon sisters,
Oscar and Felix’s disastrous dates become the Costazuela brothers.
Miscommunication, malapropisms, and mayhem ensue when the brothers, fresh
from Corsica, come to call.
The 1985 Broadway production of The
Odd Couple starred Rita Moreno as Olive and Sally Struthers as Florence
in what The New York Post called “Very funny indeed.” “A snappy
female Odd Couple.” said USA Today.
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Neil Simon is considered the most successful
commercial playwright in theater history. Simon started as a television
comic writer, then followed with a long series of hit Broadway comedies
which included Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite, The Last of the Red
Hot Lovers, The Sunshine Boys, and California Suite. He
also provided source material for the musicals Sweet Charity
and Promises, Promises. His bittersweet autobiographical
trilogy of plays which helped make actor Matthew Broderick’s career, Brighton
Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound chronicle the
talented writer’s coming-of-age with incomparable, heartfelt style and
likable, New York panache. Simon’s work is at once familiar, hilarious,
intelligent, and always engaging. Lost in Yonkers, considered
to be his most serious play, won Simon the 1990 Pulitzer Prize.
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The Odd Couple - Female! will
be presented May 20-22 at 7:00 pm in the Cove Fine Arts Center at Eastern
Nazarene College. All tickets are $7.00 and can be ordered by credit
card by calling the box office at 617-745-3715 or by writing
to Eastern Nazarene College, Department of Communication Arts, 23 East
Elm Avenue, Quincy, MA 02170. A school matinee is scheduled at 10:00
am on Thursday, May 20th for middle and high school students.
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