SYNOPSIS

By: Mary Chase

Directed by: Rosalyn Scott

Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarrassment for her family—and especially for her daughter, Myrtle Mae—Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, and so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out, however; Veta is freed, and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, looking for Harvey. But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have 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..

Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

CAST

Elwood P. Dowd - Emory Wells
Veta Louise Simmons - Rebecca Boggs
Myrtle Mae Simmons - Gracie Lamb
Ruth Kelly, R.N. - Rachael Walsingham
Lyman Sanderson M.D. - Tyler Sallas
William R. Chumbley M.D. - Lee Shook
Betty Chumbley - Barbara Dugas
Judge Omar Gaffney - Steve Yates
Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet - Mil Cox
Duane Wilson - Blake Bush
E.J. Lofgren - Raymond Bixby
Miss Johnson - Celeste Schlesinger