The Odd Couple | Review of The Odd Couple's Broadway Debut
In this review, Howard Taubman recounts the Broadway debut of The Odd Couple and praises Simon's comedic skills.
The opening scene in The Odd Couple, of the boys in their regular Friday night poker game, is one of the funniest card sessions ever held on a stage.
If you are worried that there is nothing Neil Simon the author, or Mike Nichols, his director, can think of to top that scene, relax. The main business of the new comedy, which opened last night at the Plymouth Theatre, has scarcely begun, and Mr. Simon, Mr. Nichols and their excellent cast, headed by Art Carney and Walter Matthau, have scores of unexpected ways...
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