Nov 12, 2009

The Odd Couple | Review of The Odd Couple's Original Broadway Run

In this review of the play's original Broadway run, Kerr lauds The Odd Couple as a greatly entertaining evening of theatre.

I'm sorry the Moscow Art players have returned to Russia. I'd like them to have seen the first-act poker game in The Odd Couple.

I don't necessarily say they'd have learned anything from it. I just feel pretty sure they'd have liked it. It has so much interior truth. Director Mike Nichols has staged an absolute summer festival of warm beer, sprayed toward the ceiling like those terraced fountains municipal designers are so fond of, and I suppose we can credit author Neil Simon with providing the sandwiches. The...