Having delighted audiences as married couple Edna and Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray, long-time friends Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney leapt at the opportunity to perform together again in The Odd Couple. Neil Simon’s Tony Award-winning comedy opened on Broadway in 1965 and was made into a hit film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. McKenney plays the fastidious Felix Ungar, while Jacobson takes on the slovenly Oscar Madison, two unlikely and suddenly single friends who decide to share a home.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

Comedy masters Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney are the definitive Odd Couple in Neil Simon’s Tony Award-winning comedy of friendship, divorce and misunderstandings.

It started as a play and Broadway laughed. A movie and a TV series followed and the whole world laughed. Now, laugh all over again with this hilarious new Australian stage production of The Odd Couple.

Felix and Oscar, two divorced men, decide to share an apartment. The only problem is they’re as different as chalk and cheese.

Australia’s stage legends Shane Jacobson (Kenny, Hairspray) and Todd McKenney (WICKED, Hairspray, Shrek) will leave you in stitches as Shane plays Oscar the cigar smoking compulsive slob and Todd plays the hyper-allergic pernickety Felix. Don’t miss the most famous mismatched duo in comedy history. The characteristics that drove each of them to leave their wives soon have them at each other’s throats in this classic comedy.