Black Sheep Theatre Presents
Harvey by Mary Chase
Directed by Diane Mashia
October 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 2010 at 8 PM
October 10 at 2 PM
Call the Box Office at (585) 414-3927
to order tickets! $15 general
admission, $12 students and seniors.
Plot 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 Elwood 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 list (in order of appearance)
| Myrtle Mae Simmons |
Mary Reynolds |
| Veta Simmons |
Judie D'Ambrosio |
| Elwood P. Dowd |
Kevin Swift |
| Mrs. Ethel Chauvanet |
Kristy Funderburk |
| Nurse Ruth Kelly |
Bethany Rahn |
| Duane Wilson |
Bradley Files |
| Lyman Sanderson, M.D. |
Elliott Pruitt |
| William R. Chumley, M.D. |
David Byrne |
| Betty Chumley |
Kristy Funderburk |
| Judge Omar Gaffney |
Chip Peretta |
| E. J. Lofgren,
the Cabbie |
Jim Toepper |
