Harvey
by Mary Chase
Directed by Mark Richardson
March 5-7, 1999
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 - Jessica Sparks Veta Louise Simmons - Audrey Hardman Elwood P. Dowd - Scotty Kennedy Miss Johnson - Eugenia Nixon Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet - Janet James Ruth Kelly, R.N. - Beth Hammock Duane Wilson - Richard Twilley Lyman Sanderson, M.D. - Jarod Massey William R. Chumley, M.D. - Ron Deaton Betty Chumley - Becky Twilley Judge Omar Gaffney - Oscar Glover E.J. Lofgren - Craig Fowler Crew Mark Richardson - Director Kristin Hill - Stage Manager Charles Inman - Lighting and Sound Herb Cooper - Set Design/Construction Tim Miller - Set Design/Construction Charles Inman - Set Design/Construction Jane Williams - Set Design/Construction Jamie McNeil - Hair and Makeup Vondia Seahorn - Hair and Makeup Sherry Bostick - Hair and Makeup Jane Williams - Hair and Makeup Diane Pendegraph - Props Bonnie Gray - Props Cindy James - Props Ola Glover - Props Katrine Moore - Props Christian Goines - Props Gloria McKee - Costumes Eugenia Nixon - Costumes |