The Odd Couple April 11, 2008

Broadway Comedy—Tony Award Winner for Best Show
Written by Neil Simon, America's most popular modern playwright, The Odd Couple’s hilarious one-liners have been zinging across Broadway stages for 40 years. Hysterical, fussy, fragile, allergy-prone, anal-retentive Felix is kicked to the street by his wife. He has nowhere to live except (gasp!) in beer guzzling, cigar smoking, poker playing, loudmouth, Oscar's sloppy Manhattan apartment. It's a marriage made in……well, it's a marriage made in Broadway legend. In side-splitting Neil Simon fashion, roommates Oscar and Felix skip the honeymoon and go straight to the hilarious bickering. Talkin's Broadway says Neil Simon “was at the top of his form” when he wrote The Odd Couple. Talkin’ Broadway 。Walter Mathaw and Jack Lemon made The Odd Couple famous on the silver screen. Oscar and Felix then became household names in the television series. Beijing Playhouse, China's English language community theatre, brings you all your favorite English productions.
About Director Rod Archer
Director Rod Archer, taking his fourth turn at this American classic, delivers a happy light-hearted romp across the Beijing Playhouse stage. Archer has played both lead roles of Felix and Oscar and has also directed the show before. The Assistant Director of Beijing Playhouse’s Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, Archer has been directing and acting in theatre in the USA for 30 years. He’s worked in Hollywood on such TV shows as Star Trek, Munsters, McHales Navy, Have Gun Will Travel, The Andy Griffith Show and others. He also danced with the San Francisco Ballet, Martha Graham New York and NBC-CBS Studios. He has a Master in Fine Arts in Acting and this is his third production with Beijing Playhouse.

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