Brandy Clark and Amy Coddington Burnett in “The Odd Couple: Female Version’ (Photo provided — Burdette Parks)

SARANAC LAKE – It’s 1985, the hair is big, the pants are pleated, and the girls just want to have fun. Pendragon Theatre’s mid-winter offering, “The Odd Couple: Female Version” opens this weekend with a special 8 p.m. show after the Winter Carnival fireworks on Saturday and runs through Feb. 18.

This female version, Neil Simon’s own adaptation of his 1960’s hit “The Odd Couple,” is loaded with one liners, clever innuendo and comedic antics. The play takes place, of course, in New York City, and Unger and Madison are at it again as mismatched roommates recently separated from their spouses–Florence Unger and Olive Madison that is, played by Amy Coddington Burnett and Brandy Clark respectively. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls (played by Sunita Halasz, Josie Good, Kelowna Vincent and Nina Scheuer) over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two charmingly suave Costazuela brothers, played by Keith Tanner with Dylan Van Cott and Peter Curtis splitting the role of the younger brother.

The Pendragon production is directed by Leslie Dame. According to Dame “a lot of the Female Versions I have seen lack the physical comedy of the original male version. We put it back in. The entire cast has a great sense of humor, and the leads, Burnett and Clark, are particularly adept at physical comedy. It takes a lot to get me to even chuckle and, during the rehearsals, I am laughing out loud.”

The dates and times of the show are Saturday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m., Feb. 10, 15, 16, and 17 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 4, 11 and 18 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $21 for adults over 18, $16 for 18 years of age and under and $16 for all matinees seats, and are available by calling the box office at 518-891-1854 and on the website www.pendragontheatre.org.

Pendragon Theatre is located at 15 Brandy Brook Avenue in Saranac Lake.