Auditions!
AUDITION NOTICE
The Odd Couple
By Neil Simon
Auditions:
Monday, March 18th, 6:30pm
Wednesday, March 20th, 6:30pm
Possible callbacks will be on Thursday, March 21st.
Brown County Playhouse, 70 S. Van Buren St, Nashville, IN 47448
Auditions for The Odd Couple, by Neil Simon, directed by Janet Salem. You may attend one or both evenings. Auditions will consist of cold reads from the script. Please bring a picture/headshot and resume if you have one.
Show dates: June 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16.
Rehearsals will begin the week of March 25th. Rehearsal schedule TBD based on ensemble availability. Email questions to the Director, Janet Salem at [email protected].
Character Descriptions
OSCAR MADISON (male) – A carefree, good-natured, divorced sportswriter who lives alone in a messy eight-room New York apartment. He is completely oblivious to dirt, clutter, and the overdue child-support payments about which his wife telephones weekly. He has his male cronies in for a weekly poker game with refreshments that invite food poisoning. Oscar’s lifestyle is abruptly turned around when he takes in one of the members of the group, Felix Ungar, whose wife has thrown him out. Everything is now antiseptically clean, the food served to the poker players is appetizing, and there is money to pay his former wife, Blanche. Felix is so compulsive, however, that Oscar cannot live with him and forcefully requests that he leave.
FELIX UNGER (male) – A fussy man who knows that he is difficult to live with but cannot—or will not—make any concessions or compromises. His wife, unwilling to continue their marriage, asks him to leave the family despite his suicide threat, and he then moves in with Oscar. Made comical by his exaggerated behavior, Felix is persuaded by the end of the play to live temporarily with the Pigeon sisters, who pity him, but it is probable that they too will find him exasperating.
GWENDOLYN PIGEON (female) – Oscar and Felix’s giggly upstairs neighbor, one of a pair of English sisters. She is a widow.
CECILY PIGEON (female) – Oscar and Felix’s giggly upstairs neighbor, one of a pair of English sisters. She is a divorcée.
SPEED (male) – One of Oscar and Felix’s poker buddies. Gruff and sarcastic, often picking on Vinnie and Murray.
MURRAY (male) – A NYPD policeman, one of Oscar and Felix’s poker buddies
ROY (male) – One of Oscar and Felix’s poker buddies. Oscar’s accountant. Roy has a dry wit but is less acerbic than Speed.
VINNIE (male) – One of Oscar and Felix’s poker buddies. Vinnie is mild-mannered and henpecked, making him an easy target for Speed’s verbal barbs.
We are also seeking a stage manager and assistant director for this production. If interested, please email the Director. The Brown County Playhouse Theatre is a non-equity company. The Odd Couple is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
