2010-2011 Season - Celebrating 35 Years
Old Courthouse Theatresm presents

HARVEY

Nearly 30 years after first debuting on the Old Courthouse Theatre's stage everyone's favorite six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, "Harvey" is returning! This beloved Pulitzer Prize winning play is the basis for the famous Oscar winning movie, of the same title, "Harvey", starring Jimmy Stewart. 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. Family Friendly, G A Play by Mary Chase Performances: September 23, 24, 25   October 1, 2, 8, 9 at 8:00pm September 26, October 3, 10 at 2:30pm - Sunday Matinees

Cast:

Elwood: Brian Rassler

Veta: Becky Porter

Myrtle Mae: Alex Elfner

Mrs. Chauvenet: Evelyn Foley

Nurse Kelly: Tammi Shumate

Wilson: Mike Curtis

Sanderson: Jamison Middlemiss

Dr. Chumley: George Pfeffer

Betty Chumley: Ardyce DeBurle

Judge Gaffney: Jonathan Ewart

E.J. Lofgren: John Farrell

and Special Guest Star:

Harvey as Harvey