Performance Photos by Mary Rath: HARVEY by Mary Chase, Gaslight Baker Theater, Lockhart, January 31 - February 15, 2020

 

(performance photos by Mary Rath)

 

Set in the 1940s. 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.

Written by: Mary Chase
Directed by: Beth James
Sponsored by: Carolyn Bryant

Rated PG

Myrtle Mae Simmons--Jenny Saad
Veta Louise Simmons--Terri Bennett
Elwood P. Dowd--Will Mercer
Miss Johnson--Susan Lay
Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet--Beth Penninger
Ruth Kelly, R.N.--Jessica Allen
Duane Wilson--Clayton Roberts
Lyman Sanderson, M. D.--Luke Jenkins
William R. Chumley, M.D.--Danny Mosier
Betty Chumley--Andrea Littlefield
Judge Omar Gaffney--Steve Lawson
E.J. Lofgren--Joseph Gonzales

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Harvey
by Mary Chase
Gaslight Baker Theatre

January 31 - February 15, 2020

Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30; Sundays at 2 p.m.; one Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. on February 15

Tickets $12 & $15 plus service fees, available online HERE.