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Steve Carell and John C Reilly Jerod Harris/Getty Images; Dia Dipasupil/WireImage Steve Carell and John C. Reilly will star in the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s classic The Odd Couple. Helmed by Tony Award-winning director Thomas Kail (Hamilton), the revival opens on March 23 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Marking what would have been the 100th birthday of playwright Simon, his seminal play first opened on Broadway in 1965 and starred Walter Matthau and Art Carney. The original production won four Tonys, including Best Play. It also spawned the 1968 film and five-season-long popular television series of the same name, as well as countless subsequent productions worldwide.
“Neil Simon wrote one of the great American comedies, and it is an honor and a thrill to be part of this exceptional team bringing this play back to Broadway,” Kail said in a statement. “Underneath the extraordinary humor is something deeply human. Steve and John are two remarkable actors who can make an audience laugh uproariously one moment and move them deeply in the next. We aim to create a world that feels alive, immediate, and can clearly express why this play has endured for more than 60 years.”
“Why are we doing this? We need to laugh. Period,” one of the show’s producers, Jeffrey Seller, added.
General tickets go on sale beginning Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 10 a.m. ET via the show’s site.
