Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

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Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 2:49pm

According to Broadway.com, Joe Mantello is slated to direct.

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Updated On: 2/10/05 at 02:49 PM

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re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 2:55pm

Someone beat you to it... https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=782000&dt=021005024132

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re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:37pm

Atleast Joe Mantello is directing, but I have a feeling that Lane and Broderick will be doing the same exact roles they did in THE PRODUCERS. Maybe not Broderick, but Lane is the same in everything, so I'm expecting no different in this. I'm not so excited...

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re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:18pm

i like Lane and Broderick lots...


next thing you know they'll be getting married

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#5

re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:28pm

how come these news stories never mention that Lane and Broderick were also in THE LION KING together?

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re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:55pm

well they were never really "together" recording that- voice actors in disney movies rarely even see each other until it opens

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#7

re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 6:56pm

I am SO SICK of them. This is boring.

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re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 7:10pm

I am too. And I've never seen either of them in anything that's impressed me. BLAH.

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#9

re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 7:12pm

I'll go if they have rush tickets or standing room. The Producers was glorious, and I really doubt this'll come remotely close. I remember there was talk they'd switch parts every once in a while, I'd love to see Nathan as Felix and Matthew as Oscar.

#10

re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 7:54pm

No one can beat Matthau & Lemmon. The thought of paying stratospheric prices for them (Lane & Broderick )is a turnoff. Thanks but no thanks

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re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 10:15pm

Before there was Matthau & Lemmon there was Matthau & Carney, the first brilliant team to do the show.

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#12

re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/10/05 at 10:59pm

Wow, if you've seen them in anything, you've seen them in everything. Big whoop, I won't buy a ticket.

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re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/11/05 at 12:02pm

Just what the stage needs, yet ANOTHER version of this golden moldy; classic play that's been done absolutely to death and beyond. I know i'm in the minority here but i consider Nathan Lane to be infinately annoying, unfunny and grating.

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Updated On: 2/11/05 at 12:02 PM

#14

re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/11/05 at 12:59pm

Many years ago there was a televised version of the play THE ODD COUPLE.........I believe it played on a cable channel....I cannot recall who played Felix, but I vividly remember Charles Nelson Reilly being an ABSOLUTELY AMAZINGLY BRILLIANT Felix Unger....

Seeing that performance of Reilly's made me understand why he is one of our country's most respected and important teachers of acting.

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#15

re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/12/05 at 5:14pm

Still think it would be better to reverse the casting BrodricK as Oscar & Lane as Felix. Think of the "hauwnk" Lane could do! Lane just looks like a Felix to me!

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re: Nathan and Matt do The Odd Couple

Posted: 2/12/05 at 5:23pm

uh. this is old news and they bore me so much. though broderick in the foreigner is greatness!