{"id":7586,"date":"2011-08-10T09:40:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2011-08-10T08:19:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:19:27","slug":"apsu-hosts-female-version-of-famed-neil-simon-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/08\/10\/apsu-hosts-female-version-of-famed-neil-simon-play\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU hosts female version of famed Neil Simon Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TOC-final-poster.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-85856\" title=\"The Odd Couple at Austin Peay State University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TOC-final-poster-129x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Odd Couple at Austin Peay State University\" width=\"90\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> \u2013 The story of the two female friends might sound a little familiar. After 14 years of marriage, the obsessive-compulsive Florence leaves her husband and moves in with her laid-back, cleanliness-challenged friend Olive. It isn\u2019t the ideal matching of personalities.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re having a little difficulty wondering where you\u2019ve heard this story before, just change the names of Florence and Olive to Felix and Oscar, from Neil Simon\u2019s 1965 Broadway hit, \u201cThe Odd Couple.\u201d The play went on to become a film and a popular 1970s television show.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1985, Simon put a feminist twist on his play by turning the two main characters into women. This inventive adaptation is coming to Austin Peay State University this week, as the summer performance for the APSU Area of Theater and Dance and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Odd Couple (female version),\u201d directed by APSU associate professor Darren Michael, begins at 7:30pm, on August 11th-13th, and at 2:00pm on Sunday, August 14th, in the APSU Trahern Theater. Tickets are $5.00.<\/p>\n<p>For reservations or more information, please call the box office at 931.221.7379.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN \u2013 The story of the two female friends might sound a little familiar. After 14 years of marriage, the obsessive-compulsive Florence leaves her husband and moves in with her laid-back, cleanliness-challenged friend Olive. It isn\u2019t the ideal matching of personalities. If you\u2019re having a little difficulty wondering where you\u2019ve heard this story before, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[9901,589,262,5621,9810],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-apsu-area-of-theater-and-dance","tag-apsu-center-of-excellence-for-the-creative-arts","tag-austin-peay-state-university","tag-darren-michael","tag-the-odd-couple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-1Ym","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}