"Misa Noeru as Felix. In 2011, Cezary Żak and Artur Barciś (popular actors from the Polish hit TV series ""Ranczo"") performed as Oscar and Felix in ""Dziwna Para"", a Polish rendition of ""The Odd Couple."" The play was performed in the U.S and in Toronto, Canada and received good reviews. In 2016, Australian comedians Shaun Micallef and Francis Greenslade starred as Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison in a version of the play directed by Peter Houghton. The play was performed at Southbank Theatre, Melbourne from November 5 to December 22, 2016, and received positive reviews. In 1985, Neil Simon revised"
"Parker Playhouse The Parker Playhouse is a 1,191-seat theatre in southern Florida. The Playhouse was established by Dr. Louis Parker. The curtain rose for the first time on February 6, 1967 as E.G. Marshall and Dennis O'Keefe starred in Neil Simon’s ""The Odd Couple"". Parker teamed with Broadway impresario Zev Buffman, who was also producing shows in Miami at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, to offer productions featuring many of the top theater artists of the day. Parker Playhouse has produced continuously for nearly 40 years with community arts organizations joining Broadway headliners in shows that made South Florida theater history."
"""The Odd Couple"" for a female cast. ""The Female Odd Couple"" was based on the same story line and same lead characters, now called Florence Ungar and Olive Madison. The poker game became ""Trivial Pursuit"" with their friends becoming the girlfriends: Mickey, Sylvie, Vera, and Renee. The Pigeon sisters became the Costazuela brothers, Manolo and Jesus. ""The Female Odd Couple"" opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on June 11, 1985, and closed on February 23, 1986, after 295 performances and nine previews. Directed by Gene Saks, responsible for the 1968 film version, the leads were Sally Struthers and Rita"
"Garry Marshall Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor, best known for creating ""Happy Days"" and its various spin-offs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play ""The Odd Couple"" for television, and directing ""Pretty Woman"", ""Beaches"", ""Runaway Bride"", ""Valentine's Day"", ""New Year's Eve"", ""Mother's Day"", ""The Princess Diaries"", and """". Garry Kent Marshall was born in The Bronx, New York on November 13, 1934, the son of Anthony Wallace Marshall (né Masciarelli; 1906–1999), a director of industrial films and later a producer, and Marjorie Irene (née Ward; 1908-1983), a"
"Strange Interlude Strange Interlude is an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill began work on it as early as 1923 and developed its scenario in 1925; he wrote the play between May 1926 and the summer of 1927, and completed its text for publication in January 1928, during the final rehearsals for its premiere performance. Strange Interlude opened on Broadway on January 30, 1928, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lynn Fontanne originated the central role of Nina Leeds on Broadway. It was also produced in London at the Lyric Theatre in 1931. It"
"him out after only a brief time together, though he quickly realizes that Felix has had a positive effect on him. The play and the film both spell Felix's name ""Ungar"", while the television series spells it ""Unger"". ""The Odd Couple"" premiered on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on March 10, 1965 and transferred to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre where it closed on July 2, 1967 after 964 performances and two previews. Directed by Mike Nichols, the cast starred Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Ungar. The production gained Tony Awards for Walter Matthau, Best Actor"
"Celebration (play) Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill, with Pinter's first play ""The Room"" on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London. The plot revolves around three couples dining in the most expensive restaurant in town (an allusion to The Ivy restaurant in London). At one table are sat two brothers, Lambert and Matt, and two sisters, Prue and Julie. Lambert and Julie are married, as are Matt and Prue. They are celebrating Lambert and Julie's wedding anniversary. Seated at another table are Russell and Suki, who"
"Absurd Person Singular Absurd Person Singular is a 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn. Divided into three acts, it documents the changing fortunes of three married couples. Each act takes place at a Christmas celebration at one of the couples' homes on successive Christmas Eves. The play made its world premiere at the Library Theatre, Scarborough on 26 June 1972 and its London début at the Criterion Theatre on 4 July 1973, transferring to the Vaudeville Theatre in September 1974, completing a run of 973 performances. Its official New York Broadway début was at the Music Box Theatre on 8 October"
"Walter Matthau Walter Matthau (; born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor and comedian, best known for his film roles, including as Oscar Madison in ""The Odd Couple,"" based on the play of the same title by playwright Neil Simon, in which he also appeared on broadway theatre, and notably, opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade. He also appeared in the less successful Odd Couple film sequel some 30 years later, ""The Odd Couple II."" Matthau was known for his frequent collaborations with ""Odd Couple"" co-star Jack Lemmon, particularly in the 1990s with"
"at The Odd Chair Playhouse in Bethel Park, Pa. He has been the author of a number of screenplays, including episodes for ""Hotel"", ""Hill Street Blues"" and ""A Year in the Life"". He wrote and co-produced the pilot for the proposed series ""Private Sessions"" starring Mike Farrell and Maureen Stapleton. On July 2, 2014 he married Janis V. Purins (a.k.a. John Purins), with whom he had been living as domestic partners since they met at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in 1973. In November, 2015, he was collaborating with Iris Rainer Dart on rewrites for the stage musical, ""Beaches"", based Dart's popular"
"The Collection (play) The Collection is a 1961 play by Harold Pinter featuring two couples, James and Stella and Harry and Bill. It is a comedy laced with typically ""Pinteresque"" ambiguity and ""implications of threat and strong feeling produced through colloquial language, apparent triviality, and long pauses"" (""Oxford English Dictionary""). ""The Collection"" takes place on a divided stage, shared by a house in London's Belgravia, and a flat in Chelsea, with another space between them where telephone calls take place; according to Pinter's stage description, the ""three areas"" comprise ""two peninsulas and a promontory"" (""Three Plays"" [43]). Bill, a dress"
"began a series of highly successful plays on Broadway (often from works by Simon) that would establish his reputation. After an off-Broadway production of Ann Jellicoe's ""The Knack"", Nichols directed Murray Schisgal's play ""Luv"" in 1964. Again the show was a hit and Nichols won a Tony Award (shared with ""The Odd Couple""). In 1965 he directed another play by Neil Simon, ""The Odd Couple"". The original production starred Art Carney as Felix Ungar and Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison. The play ran for 966 performances and won Tony Awards for Nichols, Simon and Matthau. Overall, Nichols won nine Tony"
"and ""The Odd Couple"" (1965), for which he won a Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and ""the hottest new playwright on Broadway."" During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon"
"was first shown on More4 on Monday 26 February 2007. Celebration (play) Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill, with Pinter's first play ""The Room"" on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London. The plot revolves around three couples dining in the most expensive restaurant in town (an allusion to The Ivy restaurant in London). At one table are sat two brothers, Lambert and Matt, and two sisters, Prue and Julie. Lambert and Julie are married, as are Matt and Prue. They are celebrating Lambert and Julie's wedding"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"
"of Broadcasters' Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Marshall received the Valentine Davies Award (1995) and Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement (2014) from the Writers Guild of America. Garry Marshall Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor, best known for creating ""Happy Days"" and its various spin-offs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play ""The Odd Couple"" for television, and directing ""Pretty Woman"", ""Beaches"", ""Runaway Bride"", ""Valentine's Day"", ""New Year's Eve"", ""Mother's Day"", ""The Princess Diaries"", and """". Garry Kent Marshall was born in The Bronx, New York on November"
"How the Other Half Loves How the Other Half Loves is a 1969 play in two acts by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is a farce following the consequences of an adulterous affair between a married man and his boss’s wife and their attempts to cover their tracks by roping in a third couple to be their alibi, resulting in a chain of misunderstandings, conflicts and revelations. The play is known to have secured Ayckbourn’s runaway success as a playwright. The play has a cast of six: Frank and Fiona Foster, Bob and Teresa Phillips, and William and Mary Featherstone."
"The Open Couple The Open Couple (Italian title: ""Coppia aperta, quasi spalancata"") is a play by Dario Fo. As with some of Fo's other plays, it is a romantic play which was written with his wife Franca Rame. It was written in 1983. The Italian censors restricted it to audiences over the age of 18 when Rame included as a prologue her monologue ""The Rape"" (inspired by her own rape). In this farce about sexual politics in marriage, a man persuades his suicidal wife that an open marriage is politically correct and embarks on dalliances with younger women, to her"
"denying. Her face [...] friendly, sympathetic"""" (79–80), ultimately maintaining both the play's ambiguity and an uneasy status quo in the relationships of the two couples. The Collection (play) The Collection is a 1961 play by Harold Pinter featuring two couples, James and Stella and Harry and Bill. It is a comedy laced with typically ""Pinteresque"" ambiguity and ""implications of threat and strong feeling produced through colloquial language, apparent triviality, and long pauses"" (""Oxford English Dictionary""). ""The Collection"" takes place on a divided stage, shared by a house in London's Belgravia, and a flat in Chelsea, with another space between them"
"The Interlude at the Playhouse The Interlude at the Playhouse (1907) is a short comic sketch written by George Bernard Shaw to be delivered by Cyril Maude and his wife Winifred Emery as a curtain raiser at the opening of The Playhouse, a newly renovated theatre managed by Maude. The sketch was performed on Monday, 28 January, 1907. Maude (as ""Edwin Goldsmith"") is an actor-manager who has to give a speech to the audience on the opening of a new theatre. He is so nervous that his wife has to appeal to the audience behind his back to be kind"
"A. R. Gurney Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017), as pen name A. R. Gurney (sometimes credited as Pete Gurney) was an American playwright, novelist and academic. He is known for works including ""The Dining Room"" (1982), ""Sweet Sue"" (1986/7), and ""The Cocktail Hour"" (1988), and for his Pulitzer Prize nominated play ""Love Letters"". His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called ""penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat."" Gurney was born on November 1, 1930 in Buffalo, New York to Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Sr. (1896-1977), who"
"the position of the taciturn Ronald, making his path from polite disdain of Sidney to impoverished failure more clearly elucidated than Ronald's naturally reserved personality would allow. Absurd Person Singular Absurd Person Singular is a 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn. Divided into three acts, it documents the changing fortunes of three married couples. Each act takes place at a Christmas celebration at one of the couples' homes on successive Christmas Eves. The play made its world premiere at the Library Theatre, Scarborough on 26 June 1972 and its London début at the Criterion Theatre on 4 July 1973, transferring to"
"absence of Shavian intrusiveness, unite in making of the interlude a little gem, quite perfect of its kind."" The Interlude at the Playhouse The Interlude at the Playhouse (1907) is a short comic sketch written by George Bernard Shaw to be delivered by Cyril Maude and his wife Winifred Emery as a curtain raiser at the opening of The Playhouse, a newly renovated theatre managed by Maude. The sketch was performed on Monday, 28 January, 1907. Maude (as ""Edwin Goldsmith"") is an actor-manager who has to give a speech to the audience on the opening of a new theatre. He"
"Floor"". ""London Suite"" opened Off-Broadway at the Union Square Theatre on March 28, 1995 and closed on September 3, 1995 after 169 performances. Directed by Daniel Sullivan, the cast featured Carole Shelley (Mrs. Semple, Diana and Mrs. Sitgood), Paxton Whitehead (Billy, Sidney and Dr. McMerlin), Kate Burton (Lauren, Grace and Annie), Jeffrey Jones (Brian and Mark) and Brooks Ashmanskas (Bellman). The production was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Awardas Outstanding Off-Broadway Play. The action takes place in a London hotel overlooking Hyde Park in a series of four plays: Brian Cronin and Billy Fox. Brian is a successful Welsh"
"Overruled (play) Overruled (1912) is a comic one-act play written by George Bernard Shaw. In Shaw's words, it is about ""how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it."" The play concerns two couples who desire to switch partners, but are prevented from doing so by various considerations and end up negotiating an ambiguous set of relationships. Gregory Lunn and Mrs Juno are in love, having met during a sea voyage. On a sofa in a hotel where both are staying, they discuss their feelings. They are both already married, so they decide they must"
"Edward Henry Peple Edward Henry Peple (August 10, 1869 – July 28, 1924) was an American playwright known for his comedies and farces. He was perhaps best remembered for the plays ""The Prince Chap,"" ""The Littlest Rebel"" and ""A Pair of Sixes."" Born in Richmond, Virginia, Peple was educated John S. McGuire's academy in Richmond. He trained and worked as lawyer, mainly with the American Bridge Company until 1912. In 1895 he moved to New Jersey. His first play was ""A Broken Rose"". His play ""The Prince Chain"" opened in 1895 and ran for two seasons with Cyril Scott playing"
"Caesar and Cleopatra (play) Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"" and ""The Devil's Disciple"" in Shaw's 1901 collection ""Three Plays for Puritans"". It was first performed in a single staged reading at Newcastle upon Tyne on 15 March 1899, to secure the copyright. The play was produced in New York in 1906 and in London at the Savoy Theatre in 1907. The play has a prologue and an ""Alternative to the Prologue""."
"and he was an honorary member of the Walnut Street Theatre's board of trustees. Also in 1983, Simon was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 1965, he won the Tony Award for Best Playwright (""The Odd Couple""), and in 1975, a special Tony Award for his overall contribution to American theater. Simon won the 1978 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for ""The Goodbye Girl"". For ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" (1983), he was awarded the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, followed by another Tony Award for Best Play of 1985, ""Biloxi Blues"". In 1991 he"
"won the Pulitzer Prize along with the Tony Award for ""Lost in Yonkers"" (1991). The Neil Simon Festival is a professional summer repertory theatre devoted to preserving the works of Simon and his contemporaries. The Neil Simon Festival was founded by Richard Dean Bugg in 2003. In 2006, Simon received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Simon was credited as contributing writer to at least 49 plays on Broadway: In addition to the plays and musicals above, Simon has twice rewritten or updated his 1965 play ""The Odd Couple"", both of which versions have run under new titles. These"
"new versions are ""The Female Odd Couple"" (1985), and ""Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple"" (2002). Simon, as a member of a writing staff, penned material for the following shows: The following made-for-TV movies were all written solely by Simon, and all based on his earlier plays: Neil Simon Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other"
"opening night cast included Eileen Heckart, Martin Balsam, George Grizzard, and Melinda Dillon. Replacements later in the run included Larry Blyden, Irene Dailey, and William Redfield. Costume design was by Theoni V. Aldredge and lighting design was by Jules Fisher. Balsam won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. Schneider was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play but lost to Mike Nichols for ""Plaza Suite"". First presented by Jack Farren and Gilbert Cates at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City on March 13, 1967 with the following cast:"
"Indiana University at Bloomington; the Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, at the University of California, San Diego; the British Film Institute, in London; and the Margaret Herrick Library, Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California. Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of"
"The Unexpected Man The Unexpected Man () is a play written in 1995 by Yasmina Reza. Reza is best known in the English speaking world as the author of ""'Art'"". A man and a woman sit opposite each other in the detached intimacy of a train compartment on a journey from Paris to Frankfurt. He is a world-famous author, she carries his latest novel in her bag and ponders the dilemma of reading it in front of him. As both the woman and man ponder their situation in the compartment, they bring past events and philosophies up in separate monologues."