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Article: `Odd Couple' gets even odder.(Entertainment)(Felix and Oscar undergo a sex change in this Cottage Theatre comedy)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2006
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Byline: The Register-Guard
You remember Felix and Oscar, the crankily mismatched roommates of Neil Simon's delicious classic comedy.
Head down to Cottage Grove this weekend and you can see them brought to stage in a slightly different incarnation, this time as Florence and Olive.
The original "Odd Couple" Broadway production in 1965 starred Art Carney as Felix and Walter Matthau as Oscar. A movie version in 1968 starred Jack Lemmon and Matthau.
In 1970, the show became an ABC sitcom starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman.
Simon himself wrote this female version of his comedy. The show starred Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno ...