Producer in Talks with Broderick & Lane for The Odd Couple on Broadway

Will former Producers stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane star in a revival of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple? While nothing is set as of now, producer Emanuel Azenberg is in negotiations with the Tony winners for a late summer Broadway start. Azenberg is also in talks with Tony-winning director Joe Mantello to helm the mounting.

The Odd Couple centers on a pair of mismatched roommates, one neat and polite, Felix Unger, and the other sloppy and crude, Oscar Madison.

The Odd Couple was a big hit when it opened on Broadway in 1965. That production ran 966 performances before closing on July 2, 1967. Simon rewrote the play with female characters naming them Florence Unger and Olive Madison and the new version opened on the Great White Way in 1985 and ran over eight months. The original The Odd Couple was the source for a popular television series and film. In 2002 the Geffen Playhouse presented Oscar and Felix, A New Look at The Odd Couple, an updated take on the classic. There was talk that the production would transfer to New York, but it received mediocre reviews and never made it to the East Coast.