‘The Odd Couple’ performed at BSA

Belle­vue Soci­ety for the Arts presents Neil Simon’s clas­sic com­edy, The Odd Cou­ple, Fri­days and Sat­ur­days, Feb. 22 and 23, March 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hirt The­atre, 205 Maple St..

The Odd Cou­ple is spon­sored by Mel and Jeanie Miller and Fam­ily. Tick­ets are $10 for adults 18+, $8 for adults 60+, and $6 for stu­dents K–12. It is appro­pri­ate for all audi­ences. Call 419–484-ARTS (2787) for reservations.

Felix Ungar (Bob Amman­niti, Belle­vue), a neu­rotic, neat freak newswriter, is thrown out by his wife, and moves in with his friend Oscar Madi­son (Adam Cox, Wake­man), a messy sports­writer. Despite Oscar’s prob­lems — care­less spend­ing, exces­sive gam­bling, a poorly-kept house filled with spoiled food — he seems to enjoy life. Felix, how­ever, seems utterly inca­pable of enjoy­ing any­thing and only finds pur­pose in point­ing out his own and other people’s mis­takes and foibles. Even when he tries to do so in a gen­tle and con­struc­tive way, his cor­rec­tions and sug­ges­tions prove extremely annoy­ing to those around him. Oscar, his clos­est friend, feels com­pelled to throw him out after only a brief time together, though he quickly real­izes that Felix has had a pos­i­tive effect on him.

Round­ing out the cast are Stan Nied­bal­ski, Belle­vue, as Mur­ray, an NYPD police­man and one of Oscar and Felix’s poker bud­dies; Brett Minor, Bowl­ing Green, as poker buddy Speed; Andy Geiger, Clyde, as mild-mannered, hen-pecked poker buddy Vin­nie; and Tyler Sless­man, Ply­mouth, as poker buddy Roy.

Also fea­tured are Mara Moss­man, Nor­walk, and Jen­nifer Gilbert, Clyde, as British sis­ters Cecily and Gwen­dolyn Pigeon, Oscar and Felix’s upstairs neighbors.

The Odd Cou­ple opened on Broad­way in 1965 with Art Car­ney and Wal­ter Matthau in the title roles; became a movie in 1968 star­ring Jack Lem­mon and Mr. Matthau; and ran five sea­sons as a tele­vi­sion sit­com, with Tony Ran­dall and Jack Klugman.

The Odd Cou­ple is directed by Mon­ica Siesel, Belle­vue, and pro­duced by spe­cial arrange­ment with Samuel French, Inc.

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