18 | DECEMBER 5 • 2024 J N OUR COMMUNITY F rankel Jewish Academy’s Performing Arts Department will present The Odd Couple, Female Version, the late, great Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play The Odd Couple, Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. and Thursday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield. Now the lead characters are Olive Madison and Florence Unger. Olive and her group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit Night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment. During the game, Florence arrives, having just been dumped by her husband. Fearful that the neurotic Florence might try to harm herself, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate. However, Olive and Florence have very differ- ent personalities. Where Olive is messy, unkempt and unconcerned about the clean- liness of her apartment, Florence is overly clean, tidy and obsessed with hygiene. Olive’s easy-going outlook on life soon clashes with Florence’s high-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. Neil “Doc” Simon earned the highest achievements in a 40-year comedy writing career. Beginning with an iconic television series in the medium’s infancy and continuing to Broadway and the movies, Simon was bestowed with three Tony Awards, two Emmys, a Screen Writers Guild Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He left a legacy of over 28 irrepressible plays, most notably the original version of The Odd Couple. Past FJA pro- ductions of Simon’s works include Brighton Beach Memoirs, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, 45 Seconds from Broadway and Broadway Bound. The show is under the guid- ance of Mitch Master, director of the Performing and Visual Arts Department, who has been with FJA since the school was founded in 2000. The cast includes eight very talented FJA students who have been rehears- ing this show for months: Rena Kantor (Olive Madison); Talia Glass (Florence Unger); Shira Yamstein (Mickey); Jacob Potocsky (Vera); Jacob Miller (Renee); Jillian Schiffer (Sylvie); Hillell Chudnow (Manolo Costazuela); Nathan Bak (Jesus Costazuela) and Aiden Burnstein (Student Director). General admission tickets are $15 each. The Berman will apply a $3 ser- vice fee per ticket. Visit The Berman’s Virtual Box Office: theberman.org or call/text (248) 406-6677. The Odd Couple, Female Version is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc., www.con- cordtheatricals.com. In FJA’s produc- tion, certain props, adult language and adult content are left unaltered as required by the playwright and stip- ulated in the copyright regulations. The performance is rated PG-13. FJA’s Performing Arts Department presents The Odd Couple, Female Version. Get Your Tickets! 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