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The Odd Couple (female version)

posted 20 years ago by n0rmnbates
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tonight is my high school's last showing of The Odd Couple (female version). i honestly cant say which is better because i have never seen the original [or the movie], but after being Jesus [one of the spanish brothers who Olive and Florence invite over for the date] i started wondering, would they ever adapt the female version for the screen?

and if you've ever seen the female version, what did you think?

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[–] rober_crazy_girl 18 years ago

Heyy! I've been cast as Olive in our school production. Any tips for playing her??? Thank you!

[–] Envisionwhirledpeas 18 years ago

I played Olive back in November, and all i have to say is to not hold back, yell at flo, and flirt as much as possible with manolo and jesus!! Biting your bottom lip helped for me, especially because i couldn't make it through that scene without laughing. But most of all, HAVE AS MUH FUN AS YOU CAN.

Everyone I know has a big "but." Come on, Simone, let's talk about your big "but."

[–] radubutum 18 years ago

It's really cool seeing so many people that presumably share simmilar intimate feelings for this play.

I played Manolo in 1999 in my school theatre in Midland TX. It was a unique experience! Even now after 8 years I cannot forget it! I want to thank Ms. Chambers for casting me in.

I am Romanian and I was in the US on a scholarship - so my accent was really Transylvano- Castillian.

Wow - great memories!

radu

[–] AlbaInSinCity28 18 years ago

I'm actually cast as Mickey the cop and we open in three weeks it's a great show I think I prefer it to the movie, but the movie was funny as well.

[–] keju7 18 years ago

I saw a version with Barbara Eden as Florence and the Soup Nazi as one of the brothers. Besides having plenty of other great actors, how can you beat two major TV personalities like those?!

[–] actresss 18 years ago

omg, i was Florence in my high school's performance this past fall. It was so much fun!!!!!! we did it in the round, and the set/ cast/ crew was amazing!!! my favorite Flo scene was with the spanish boys. I dont know how i kept a straight face because the guys were hysterical!

Students and teachers have said it was the best show my school has EVER put on, and i credit that to the outstanding script!!!

You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music.

[–] pfdocwilson 18 years ago

It's instantly dated by having them play Trivial Pursuit. Poker is eternal.

Besides, Annie Duke or Meg Tilly would argue with you about women's ability to play poker.

If I ever directed the show, I'd find a way to sneak some of the lines from the second version into the first, but on the whole, the first one is sharper -- I miss lines like "You're the only man in the world with clenched hair."

[–] JoeLoebner 17 years ago

I heard of the female version long ago. Who were the actresses in it?

[–] lauren-salerno 17 years ago

rite moreno and sally struthers. I have to say...I am very bothered at how much better the male version of this play is. The characters actually have (for a campy neil simon play) depth and it makes the comedy of the film better because you actually see conviction in what they are doing...they mean it and it almost comes off as better acting.....

but in the female play, when olive (oscar) is attempting suicide (at the beginning), she is being hugely melodramatic about it....like you thought to yourself.... there is no way this woman is going to kill herself she just kinda wants attention. It lacks depth and doesn't really portray women as emotionally rational creatures.

I am an acting student and I have to do the final climactic scene for my final project. I hate the scene, it is so campy that is dilutes the whole thing.

anyways...just felt like ranting for a second...so, how about that weather? heat patterns my ass, GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL!!!!AL GORE WASN'T LYING! TURN OFF YOUR EFFING LIGHTS WHEN YOU LEAVE A ROOM!

wow, this blog has been slightly theraputic

[–] hasheart 10 years ago

Excuse me, but it's Florence (Felix) , not Olive (Oscar) that tried to commit suicide in the beginning and it's supposed to be funny.

[–] jefgg 12 years ago

Enough with the remakes already.

[–] hasheart 10 years ago

i saw the female version on Broadway and many years later, I played the female part of Felix. I blocked out her name, because as much as I enjoyed watching the play with the males played the part, the movie, and the tv show I didn't like the female version at all. It was part of an assignment, i had to perform this in High School. I felt that an extremely neat, compulsive as she was, was not funny and I didn't find it funny. I felt that a lot of women I knew were very neat and tidy, so it didn't seem as out of character. I feel a male in this type of character unusual, therefore more funny. I guess this is why on the Big Bang Theory Sheldon is quite funny, or should I say odd. Lol. Any way, in the female version, I think Olive is more the atypical character, therefore more funny. Even though the female Felix so to speak has the same imagined and real ailments that the male Felix has, I find it funnier when the male Felix demonstrates these. All in all, I feel that not every play, movie, tv show needs to be updated. Asthe expression goes, 'If it an't broke, don't fix it."