Current Productions at the Gate Theater
From Broadway to Chiang Mai,
Neil Simon’s, "The Odd Couple", is guaranteed
to make you laugh make you laugh!
The
Gate Theater continues to thrill audiences in the north of Thailand with yet
another famous Broadway hit this September.
The
Gate Theater of Chiang Mai will present The Odd Couple, by Neil Simon at the
Studio Theater on the 7th floor of Central Kad Suan Kaew shopping
mall. The show opens on Friday, November 6 and closes on Saturday, November 21 with curtain at 7:00pm each Friday and Saturday night. Doors open at 6:00 pm.
Neil
Simon’s box office hit, The Odd Couple, traces the lives of the
infamously mismatched roommates: Felix Ungar, a neurotic fusspot news writer
and Oscar Madison, a slovenly sports journalist. At his wife’s insistence, Felix is evicted
from his home and abandoned on the doorstep of his childhood friend Oscar. Deep down, he knows she has every right to
kick him out, but he still harbors the hope of someday returning to her once so
loving arms. As fate would have it Oscar
likewise had been given the boot by Mrs. Madison requesting that he never
return. Can two new bachelors share an
apartment without driving each other insane?
The
laughs are non-stop in this classic hit from one of America’s greatest comedy
writers. The show first premiered on Broadway in 1965 at the Plymouth Theater
in New York City, starring Walter Matthau as Oscar and Art Carney as
Felix. This year’s performance,
starring Brian Hubbard as Oscar and Richard Childs as Felix, marks the start of
the fourth season for The Gate Theater, Chiang Mai’s only English
language theater group. The show is directed by the group’s founder, Stephan
Turner, and rounds out its side-splitting cast with Robert Young as Murray, Jim Matchett as Speed, Brian Brown as Roy, Roberto Toscano as Vinne, and Marisa
Lianggamphai and Rachel Clair Morris as the Pigeon sisters. Looking for laughs? The Odd Couple is where it’s
at!
Tickets are available at the information desk on the first floor of Central Kad Suan Kaew shopping mall for a suggested donation of 250 baht. For more information please call 087-177-2195 – 086-671-3371 or write to info@gate-theater.com or visit our website at www.gate-theater.com.
Richard Childs as Felix and Brian Hubbard as Oscar
Richard Childs, Brian Hubbard, Brian Brown as Roy and Robert Young as Murray
