Harvey

[NoHo Arts District, CA] – Theatre Palisades presents “Harvey” by Mary Chase running June 17 – July 10.

Show Synopsis

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 – Vita decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium.  At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, 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 influence on more than one of the doctors.  Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.

Team:

DIRECTOR:  Marina Tidwell
PRODUCERS:  Martha Hunter, Mitch Feinstein

Cast:

Isabella DiBernadino (Myrtle Mae Simmons);  Maria O’Connor (Veta Louise Simmons);  Bob Grochau (Elwood P. Dowd);  Mari King

(Ethel Chauvnet/E.J.Lofgren); Jessica Kent (Nurse Ruth Kelly);  Josh Paris (Duane Wilson);  Jason Brashier (Dr. William R.Chumley); Laura Goldstein (Betty Chummy);  Levente Tarr (Dr. Lyman Sanderson);  Mitch Feinstein (Judge Omar Gaffney)

Covid:

Vaccination cards, including proof of booster or negative PCR test or Antigen test,and masks required.