The Odd Couple (Female Version)

By Neil Simon
Directed by Sean Sampson

Sunday, November 3 at 6pm and
Monday, November 4 at 6pm
Riverfront Playhouse - 1950 California Street, Redding

Play will run January 24 through February 9, 2025
(preview on January 23)

Auditions will be cold readings from the script.

We are holding auditions for Neil Simon's The Odd Couple (Female Version) a little earlier than usual to allow time off for the holidays.

Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play, The Odd Couple, sees the lead characters transformed into Olive Madison and Florence Unger. Olive and their group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment. As the game continues, Florence arrives, fresh from being dumped by her husband. Fearful that the neurotic Florence might attempt suicide, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate. However, Olive and Florence have VERY different personalities. Where Olive is messy, untidy, and unconcerned about the state of her apartment, Florence is obsessively clean, tidy, and obsessed with hygiene. Olive’s easy-going outlook on life soon clashes with Florence’s highly-strung neurotic tendencies, testing their friendship to the limit. When Olive organizes a double date with the Costazuela brothers, their differences come to a head, and sparks fly.

Roles:

Olive Madison: female presenting as 30-50- Attractive, divorced, professional, vibrant, active, quick-witted, big-hearted, but also relentlessly sloppy and careless when it comes to the routine concerns of her personal life. She is very much at home in running shorts and a T-shirt and still looks smashing in a cocktail dress. The female counterpart to the original play's Oscar Madison. She is a woman seriously in need of order in her life.

Florence Unger: female presenting as 30-50- Attractive, a homemaker/housewife and very recently separated from her husband, was a bookkeeper before she married, extremely "pulled together" (obsessively so), pathologically organized and neat, even sanitizes the telephone cord. Her personality is the complete antithesis of Olive's personality. The female counterpart to the original play's Felix Unger. A woman who badly needs to cut loose, give it up, take a risk.

Mickey: female presenting as 30-50- a New York City policewoman and an organizer and problem solver.

Vera: female presenting as 30-50- a bit literal-minded and a bit slow to get a point that everyone else gets instantly, always seems "a few beats behind the conductor." very sweet, very nice, somewhat spacey, and, although quite smart, is often a step or two behind her friends; she’s very funny, but doesn't realize it.

Sylvie: female presenting as 30-50- highly energized and a wise cracker. She is desperately trying to stop smoking, so she sucks on lollipops or chews gum; she can get irritated with her friends but has a good sense of humor, especially about her husband.

Renee: female presenting as 30-50- a wisecracker and a bit of a complainer as well. Sylvie's best friend can be very plain-spoken, especially when she points out Olive's failings as a hostess--and then Flo's; she is single and dating a doctor.

Manolo: male presenting as 30-50- handsome, very well-groomed, and Spanish with a Castilian accent; he is every woman's dream date and showers both Olive and Flo with attention; he must have good comic timing, as he gets very emotional; he is sensitive and appreciates Florence's sensitivity.

Jesus: male presenting as 30-50- Manolo’s younger brother; also very handsome, well-groomed, excellent posture, very romantic; he also gets very emotional and truly appreciates Florence.

RIPCORD

By David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Brenda Sinclair

Sunday, December 8 at 6pm and
Monday, December 9 at 6pm
Riverfront Playhouse - 1950 California Street, Redding
Play will run March 7 - March 23, 2025
(preview on March 6)

Auditions will be cold readings from the script

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