The Odd Couple
by Neil Simon

The Odd Couple Book Cover
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Highlights

120 mins 1960s Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Tony Award

Winner! 1965 Tony Award , Best Author of a Play Nominee! 1965 Tony Award , Best Play

Synopsis

Comedy / 6m, 2f / Int. This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys assembled for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison.

And if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him.

Late to arrive is Felix Unger who has just been separated from his wife.

Fastidious, depressed and none too tense, Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds Oscar becomes the one with murder on his mind when the clean-freak and the slob ultimately decide to room together with hilari

Press Reviews

"Fresh, richly hilarious and remarkably original. Wildly, irresistibly, incredibly and continuously funny."

— The New York Post

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The Odd Couple Act 3 part 1

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1994
Binding Paperback
Edition Illustrated
Pages 108
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573613319
ISBN-10 0573613311
LCC PS3537.I663 O3 1966

The Odd Couple is a American comedy play written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French in New York (1994).

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