All Evergreen Playhouse Productions run three weekends unless otherwise noted. The following is the format for productions:
Evening Performances: Fridays/Saturdays starting at 8pm: tickets are $15/individual
Matinee Performances: Sundays starting at 2pm: tickets are $10/individual
PWYW Thursday: As marked per production: starts at 7:30pm (pay-what-you-will)
Ticket Outlets:
Sterling Savings Bank: Centralia
Santa Lucia Coffee Co: 202 South Tower Ste C, Centralia
Book N Brush: Chehalis
Box Office: One hour prior to showtime
Ticket discounts: One ticket discount ($2) per production for a patron, Two ticket discounts ($2/ticket) for family memberships. Must have membership card present to receive discounts. No senior discounts on tickets.
The Odd Couple is a 1965 Broadway play by Neil Simon, followed by a successful film and television series, as well as other derivative works and spin offs, many featuring one or more of the same actors. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates, one neat and uptight, the other more easygoing but slovenly. In the original play these were male; Simon also made a version for a pair of female roommates, called The Female Odd Couple[1].
Sources vary as to the origins of the play. Most sources claim that Simon was inspired to write the play when he saw his brother Danny Simon and theatrical agent Roy Gerber living together after recent divorces.
Some character backround on Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple
Oscar Madison: A slovenly, recently divorced sportswriter. Felix Ungar: A fastidious, hypochondriac newswriter whose marriage is ending. (In the television series, he is a professional photographer, portraits a specialty.) Murray: A fat cop , one of Oscar and Felix’s poker buddies. (In the television series, Murray’s last name was revealed to be Greshler.) Vinnie: One of the poker buddies. Vinnie is mild-mannered and henpecked, making him an easy target for Speed’s verbal barbs. Speed: One of the poker buddies. Gruff and sarcastic, often picking on Vinnie and Murray. Roy: One of the poker buddies. Oscar’s accountant. Roy has a dry wit but is less acerbic than Speed.
Oscar and Felix (a new look at the Odd Couple)
And
the Odd Couple (female version)
America’s comic mastermind has updated his classic comedy The Odd Couple , setting the trials and tribulations of Felix Unger and Oscar Madison in the present day. Those who love the original version and new audiences will laugh until they cry at this modern day comic tour de force.
In 1985, Neil Simon revised The Original Odd Couple for a female cast. It was titled The Female Odd Couple and was based on the same story line and same lead characters, now called Florence Ungar and Olive Madison. The poker game becoming Trivial Pursuit and the Pigeon sisters becoming the Costazuela brothers, Manolo and Jesus.
Neil Simon updated the original play and changed the characters to women.
Foot Note… Neil Simon wrote the Odd Couple very early in his career. In an early contract he had failed to secure the TV rights to the Odd Couple during negotiations for the movie rights.. Consequently Mr. Simon .. in his own words ..”never received a dime, a nickel, not a penny” from any of the Odd Couple TV shows. That’s right, so when you watch them on late night TV or on DVD just remember that even though it says.. “Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple .. not a dime not a nickel not a penny…