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HARVEY

She Loves Me
May 5 - 20, 1989
By Mary Chase

Directed by Thomas Greaney 

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 embarassment 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.

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$4.50 Adult / $3 Senior/Student

PHOTOS
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Myrtle Mae Simmons / Julianna Wimpenney 
Veta Louise Simmons / Lavona Wolfard
Elwood P. Dowd / Frank Long
Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet / Dora May Benedict 
Ruth Kelley, R.N. / Marla Norton
Duane Wilson / Bob Grimes
Lyman Sanderson, M.D. / Bill Nelson
William R. Chumley, M.D. / Richard Hill
Betty Chumley / Dorris Stark
Judge Omar Gaffney / Les Tobiason

PRODUCTION CREW
Director / Thomas Greaney
Assistant Director / Martha Thompson
Stage Manager / Jenny Corey
Crew / Barbara Hartel
Set Design / Ben Benedict 
Set Construction / Ben Benedict, John Hoffman
Set Decoration / Thomas Greaney, Martha Thompson, Marcia MacLaine, Kieran Greaney, Sharon Malcolm
Props / Mitchell’s Antiques, Helma Olsen, Cast
Portrait of Harvey / Julianna Wimpenney 
Lights & Sound / Kim Davis, Sally Diehm, Jerry Astrella
Make-up / Dorris Stark
Program / Martha Thompson
Publicity / Martha Thompson, Gayle Berge, Marcia MacLaine
Box Office / Lavona Wolfard
House Manager / Marcia MacLaine 

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