Derricks, Knight, Warburton, et al. Join Reprise’s Odd Couple; Burkhardt, Rigby, Willard to Star in Li’l Abner

Cleavant Derricks will play Vinnie, Michael Kostroff will play Speed, Wayne Knight will play Murray, and Patrick Warburton will play Roy opposite previously announced stars Jason Alexander as Oscar and Martin Short as Felix in the Reprise! Broadway’s Best staged reading of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, January 25-26.

In additional Reprise! news, Brandi Burkhardt will play Daisy Mae, Cathy Rigby will play Mammy Yokum, and Fred Willard will play General Bullmoose in the musical Li’l Abner, to run February 5-17 at the UCLA Freud Playhouse. Additional casting will be announced shortly.

The production will be directed by Michael Michetti, with choreography by Lee Martino and musical direction by Daryl Archibald. Based on the comic strip by Al Capp, the show has a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by gene DePaul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The original 1956 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by the late Michael Kidd, ran for nearly 700 performances.

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