Slovenly Olive Madison, a divorced television executive, invites obsessive-compulsive neatnik Florence Unger to share her house after she is deserted by her spouse. The situation may sound familiar. Neil Simon has rewritten ‘The Odd Couple’, with gender switches. Although Simon retains many of the original script’s best jokes, he reworked the characters to reflect feminine attitudes and psychology. The two Pigeon sisters upstairs have become the Costazuela brothers, handsome Spaniards who work for Iberia Airlines. With Barbara Eden as neurotically neat Florence and Rita McKenzie as unkempt Olive.
