Harvey

A Pulitzer Prize winning play by Mary Chase

Produced by April Bridgeman

Directed by James Campanella

PERFORMANCES

April 16-18 & 23-25, 2010

Sterling Middle School

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			STAFF
Myrtle Mae Simmons		Amber Bosworth	Producer		April Bridgeman
Veta Louise Simmons		Barbara Carpenter	Director		Jim Campanella
Elwood P. Dowd		Michael Morsberger	Production Stage Manager		Deb Bartram
Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet		Susan Kronenberg	Tecnical Director		Jim Campanella
Miss Ruth Kelly		Stephanie Hearne	Public Relations		Liz Smith
Mr. Duane Wilson		Alex Bhargava	Master Carpenter		Glen Bartram
Dr. William Chumley		Michael Scheuchenzuber	Stage Manager		Joe Campanella
Dr. Lyman Sanderson		Tim Silk	Asst. Stage Manager		Amanda Carter
Betty Chumley		Jerri Wiseman	Costumer		Joanna Brezney
Judge Omar Gaffney		Dennis Fox	Lights		Terry DiMurro
E. J. Lofgren		Bob Rosenberg	Sound
			Set Design		Jim Campanella
			Props Managers		Lisa Alford Joni Carluzzo
			Makeup/Hair		Joanna Brezney
			Makeup Crew		Tosia Shall
			Box Office
			House		Barbara Gillen
			Art Work		Amy O'Neal