We hope you get it.

AUDITION DATES: Sunday, August 18 at 2:30 and Monday, August 19 at 7:00 pm

AUDITION LOCATION: Biloxi Little Theatre

PRODUCTION DATES: November 1-3 & 8-10, 2024

DIRECTOR: Joelle May

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

THE SHOW

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. The show focuses on these two women as they find their place in the world and workforce in 1980's New York City, while simultaneously navigating difficult divorces.

ROLES TO BE FILLED

Age ranges from 25-80

Olive Madison: 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: 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: a New York City policewoman and an organizer and problem solver.

Vera: 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: pregnant, highly energized and a wise-cracker. Desperately trying to stop smoking, and so 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: 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

 Florence: she is single and dating a doctor.

Manolo: 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: Manolo’s younger brother; also very handsome, well-groomed, excellent posture, very romantic; he also gets very emotional and truly appreciates Florence