Joining Carell as Felix Ungar and Reilly as Oscar Madison are Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy, She Loves Me, My Fair Lady) as Gwendolyn Pigeon; Tony Award nominee Kevin Del Aguila (Some Like It Hot) as Roy; Tony Award winner JamesMonroe Iglehart (Disney’s Aladdin, Hamilton, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical) as Murray; Tony Award nominee Rob McClure (Chaplin, Mrs. Doubtfire) as Vinnie; Heléne Yorke (American Psycho, Bullets Over Broadway) as Cecily Pigeon; and Tony Award nominee David Zayas (Cost of Living) as Speed.
The Odd Couple, Simon's comedy of two mismatched divorced men sharing an apartment, opened on Broadway in 1965 with Walter Matthau and Art Carney and ran for 964 performances. Simon rewrote a new version with female leads in 1985 which starred Rita Moreno and Sally Struthers. The 1968 film version starred Matthau and Jack Lemmon. A 2005 revival was headlined by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. Jack Klugman and Tony Randall played Oscar and Felix in the long-running TV series and there were two subsequent TV versions as well as a cartoon series featuring a sloppy dog and a fussy cat voiced by Paul Winchell and Frank Nelson.
