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.

Cast List

Myrtle Mae Simmons
Emily Edwards (Brittany Ridgeway will perform Saturday Feb 24)

Veta Louise Simmons
Azure McLuckie

Elwood P. Dowd
Alyus Nelson

Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet
Jeanne Neely

Ruth Kelly, R.N.
Victoria Avila

Duane Wilson
Mitch Randall

Lyman Sanderson, M.D.
Caleb Helfrick

William R. Chumley, M.D.
Vic Morris

Betty Chumley
Ruth Stoddard

Judge Gaffney
Gloria McLuckie

E.J. Lofgren

Melissa Edwards

Understudies:

Myrtle Mae Simmons, Ruth Kelly, R.N.
Brittany Ridgeway

Elwood P. Dowd
Mitch Randall

Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet, Betty Chumley
Christy Morris

Duane Wilson
Andrew Beckman

Lyman Sanderson, M.D.
Ash Gimler

William R. Chumley, M.D., Judge Gaffney

Tim Fontaine