Harvey

by Mary Chase

 

Synopsis: When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn't so bad after all.

Cast

Myrtle Mae Simmons	Kathleen Kirby
Veta Louise Simmons	Carmen Decker
Elwood P. Dowd	Cliff Goodwin
Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet	Amy Furnans
Ruth Kelly, R.N.	Beverly Robinson
Duane Wilson	Brian Winfield
Lyman Sanderson, M.D.	Donovan Sylvest
William R. Chumley, M.D.	Stan Dean
Betty Chumley	Judy Bedell
Judge Omar Gaffney	Will Temple, III
E.J. Lofgren	J.O. Zachow

 

Creative Team

Director	Thomas R. Long
Lighting Designer	James P. McHugh
Stage Manager	Bette Scheuerman
Assistant Stage Manager	Leslie Jennings
Master Carpenter	Mike Murphy
Master Electrician	Reis Birdwhistell
Property Mistress	Priscilla Cooper
Costumes	Bernie Grisaffi
Sound	Ed Ciolfi
Production Assistant	Kurt Birdwhistell
Publicity Manager	Stan Dean
House Manager	Connie Marse
Ushers	Alpha Kappa Chi Sorority
	Kappa Chi Delta Sorority
Box Office Manager	Peggy Hyduk
Box Office Assistants	Mike Austin
	Sharon Dawson
	Janet Maine
Shop Assistants	Stan Beckham
	Narcisco Escobar