Harvey
by Mary Chase
Directed by Donna Storms
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.
The Cast of HARVEY:
Elwood P. Dowd – Dave Wall
Veta Luoise Simmons – Jane Coughlin
Myrtle Mae Simmons – Margaret Warner
Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet – Mary Wilson
Ruth Kelley R.N. – Heather Graham
Lyman Sanderson M.D. – Spencer Poulin
Duane Wislon – Ed Bassett
William R. Chumley MD – Tim Phillips
Betty Chumley – Patti Paganucci
Judge Omar Gaffney – Peter Flynn
EJ Lofgren – Tim Cleary
