The Odd Couple  (Female Version)

Written by Neil Simon​

​Directed by Kristen Logsden           Produced by The Lakeway Players

Performance Dates:   Feb. 27 - Mar. 1, 2025      @ 7:30 pm   

Venue:      ​Lakeway Activity Center

Lakeway Players is holding open auditions for
​The Odd Couple  (Female Version)

​Lakeway Activity Center      105 Cross Creek     Lakeway

Monday,  Dec. 9, 2024           7:00 - 9:00 pm        Room F

Saturday,  Dec. 14, 2024       4:00 - 7:00 pm        Room F

​Audition Instructions

Please bring a short prepared piece to the

audition, as well as a resume and a headshot

if you have one.  Auditions will include group

improv and cold readings from the script.

​​THE STORY:   Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play, The Odd Couple, sees the lead characters transformed into Olive Madison and Florence Unger. Olive and their group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment. As the game continues, Florence arrives, fresh from being dumped by her husband. Olive invites her to move in as her roommate. Olive’s easy-going outlook on life soon clashes with Florence’s highly-strung neurotic tendencies, testing their friendship to the limit. When Olive organizes a double date with the Costazuela brothers, their differences come to a head and sparks fly.​

  CASTING:  6f, 2m
Florence Ungar: attractive, a homemaker/housewife and very recently separated from her husband, was a bookkeeper before she married, extremely "pulled together" (obsessively so), pathologically organized and neat, even sanitizes the telephone cord. A woman who badly needs to cut loose, give it up, take a risk.
Olive Madison: attractive, divorced, professional, vibrant, active, quick-witted, big-hearted, but also relentlessly sloppy and careless when it comes to the routine concerns of her personal life. She is a woman seriously in need of order in her life.
Mikey: a New York City policewoman and an organizer and problem solver.
Sylvie: highly energized and a wise-cracker; she can get irritated with her friends, but has a good sense of humor, especially about her husband.
Vera: a bit literal-minded and a bit slow to get a point that everyone else gets instantly, very sweet, very nice, somewhat spacey, and, although quite smart; she’s very funny, but doesn't realize it.
Renee: a wisecracker and a bit of a complainer as well, can be very plain-spoken; she is single and dating a doctor.
Manolo Costazuela: handsome, very well-groomed, and Spanish with a Castilian accent; he is every woman's dream date.
Jesus Costazuela: Manolo’s younger brother; also very handsome, well-groomed.

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