Grand Haven, MI (WGHN) – The closing show in Central Park Player’s Generations season is Harvey, another Pulitzer Prize Winner (Drama, 1945). In the comedy by Mary Chase, 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. After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors begins.
Hear the interview with Director Becky Anderson and Producer: Dani Hopwood below.
About Harvey 
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.
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.
ut, 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.
Harvey is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. https://dramatists.com
Tickets here.
Performance Dates
May 9, 10, 16 & 17 @ 7:30 PM
May 17 @ 1:30 PM
May 9, 10, 16 & 17 @ 7:30 PM
May 17 @ 1:30 PM
Production Team Director: Becky Anderson
Assistant Director & Stage Manager: Joy Lamphere
Producer: Dani Hopwood
Cast Will MacDonald as Elwood P. Dowd
Melissa Moerland as Veta Louise Simmons
Gabi Tomes as Myrtle Mae Simmons
Sophie Anderson as Ruth Kelly RN
Noah Zimmer as Dr. Lyman Sanderson
Diane Reeths as Betty Chumley
William Mitchell as Dr. William B. Chumley
Levi Aument as Ethel Chauvenet and EJ Lofgren
Tom Goedert as Judge Omar Gaffney
Andrew Uthe as Duane Wilson
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