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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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