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Essex Community Players will present the Male and Female versions of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple from September 11 through September 28. This will be a great opportunity for Vermont’s comedic actors!
Join us for auditions on:
June 19 and 20 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm
June 22 from 3:00-6:00 pm
Essex Memorial Hall in Essex Town, Vermont.
Callbacks, if required, are on June 23 from 6:00-9:00 pm.
Please bring your calendar so that you can indicate any date conflicts for possible rehearsals.
Cast
8 characters per show: 6 men & 2 women in the male version; 6 women & 2 men in the female version. 16 total. There will be opportunity for casting in more than one role.
Cast Descriptions
Plot Summary
It’s a summer night and the weekly poker game is in progress at the unkempt apartment of Oscar Madison, a divorced sportswriter. Four cronies sit at the table, playing cards and exchanging wisecracks, while Oscar serves warm beer and inedible sandwiches. One of the regulars, Felix, is uncharacteristically late and the men become concerned. Felix eventually arrives in a semi-suicidal state and announces his wife is divorcing him. Oscar insists that Felix move in with him. They are, however, exact opposites and soon are driving each other crazy. A potentially passionate evening with Oscar's neighbors, the Pigeon sisters, is cut short when Felix, lonely for his wife, children and apartment furnishings, reduces the women to tears. Pushed to the brink, Oscar charges around the apartment making as big a mess as possible and orders Felix out. At the following evening's poker game, a newly self-confident Felix arrives to collect his belongings and announces he's moving in with the Pigeon sisters.
The female version parallels the male version, with the women, Olive and Florence, playing Trivial Pursuit instead of poker and spending an aborted evening with Manolo and Jesus, two brothers from Spain.
For additional information contact:
Vivian Jordan at greenmtgrandma@gmavt.net or
(802) 482-5900 Ron Ewalt at michinvt@yahoo.com or (802) 878-9693.
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