07/13/2026
📢 Audition notice!
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📆 Auditions to be held July 20 & 21 at 6:30pm at Santa Rosa Community Theatre:
đź“Ť5410 Dogwood Dr Milton, FL 32570
🎠Production dates are September 3-13
đź“– Auditions will consist of cold reading from the script
🎤 We will be casting 6 female and 2 male roles, actors to portray age 30+ for all roles
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Synopsis:
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 apartment when Florence arrives, fresh from being dumped by her husband. Olive invites her to move in as her roommate. However, Olive and Florence have VERY different personalities, 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.
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Characters:
-Olive Madison: Olive is a successful television producer. She is intelligent and wisecracking, with a good sense of humor - and she's a complete slob when it comes to her surroundings. She has an encyclopedic understanding of sports, is a complete pushover for her ex-husband, and a good friend.
-Florence Unger: Florence is put-together neat and has just broken up with her husband. She takes herself very seriously, likes to clean, decorate and cook and is very good at all three. Flo is also intelligent, warm-hearted (in her own way), and has no sense of humor (at least about herself) - she does NOT make jokes.
-Sylvie: Sylvie is 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.
-Mickey: Mickey is a police officer, who is down-to-earth, plain talking, and has a good understanding of people. Sometimes she can take the "police bit" too far and she tries very hard to be in control of all situations.
-Renee: Renee is Sylvie's best friend. She can be very plain-spoken, especially when she points out Olive's failings as a hostess, and then Flo's. She is single and dating a doctor.
-Vera: Vera is 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. She is married to Harry.
-Manolo Costazuela: *Spanish accent. Manolo is very well groomed and Spanish. He is very woman's dream date and showers both Olive and Flo with attention. He is sensitive and appreciates Florence's sensitivity. Jesus’s older brother.
-Jesus Costazuela: *Spanish accent. Jesus is Manolo's younger brother, who is also well-groomed, excellent posture, very romantic, and he also gets very emotional, and truly appreciates Florence.
