The Odd Couple (female version)
-
vaughns_girl — 19 years ago(October 12, 2006 07:12 PM)
I feel kinda specialMy character is the only one who hasn't been mentioned. We're doing the female version at my high school and I get to play Florence!! My older sister is also in the play and she is playing Renee. It's so weird seeing all these posts of people who have starred in the play!
-
lemonyvfd — 19 years ago(November 21, 2006 05:28 PM)
I was Olive in a little duet acting thing at my school last year. It was GREAT! My friend and I did the "linguini scene," as we all came to know it by. I've seen the male version, never the female version, just that scene. The female version was being done at our local theatre, but I thought that both versions are great.
"Our conversations change from words to blah, blah, BLAAH"
TRKF
True Relient K Fan -
caitlinette — 19 years ago(November 23, 2006 08:46 PM)
That would be great if they did the female version on film!
I recently saw both versions at my college and I definitely liked the female version better. Maybe it was just that the chemistry between the women was better, or that I identified with a bunch of women more than a group of men, or that it was better acted. It was very similar to the male version but the humor was better and I liked the characters more, even though they're the same. Also, the Spanish brothers did a lot more than the Pidgeon sisters, who just sat and giggled and cried. -
jlnajera — 19 years ago(December 20, 2006 08:33 AM)
I'm in the play right now as Manolo, for city theater. To be honest with you, I prefer Jack Lemmon's Felix to Nancy's (the woman playing Florence in the production) Florence, because Lemmon acts the role in a way that doesn't drive you crazy. For some reason, I don't know why Nancy reads Florence so irateI guess it really depends on the actor/actress on which one you like more.
-
Envisionwhirledpeas — 19 years ago(January 25, 2007 10:54 AM)
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 — 19 years ago(January 23, 2007 01:51 AM)
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 -
actresss — 18 years ago(May 05, 2007 07:32 PM)
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(May 12, 2007 07:28 AM)
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." -
lauren-salerno — 18 years ago(December 09, 2007 08:44 PM)
rite moreno and sally struthers. I have to sayI 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 doingthey 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.
anywaysjust felt like ranting for a secondso, 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(April 18, 2015 12:46 AM)
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."