"Harvey"  by Mary Chase was presented July 20, 21st  2012 and July 27 and 28, 2012 at Mountain Annie's Center for the Arts, 2710 Sudderth.  

Plot:

Elwood P. Dowd is an affable man who claims to have an unseen (and presumably imaginary) friend, Harvey - whom Elwood describes as a six-foot, three-and-one-inch tall pooka resembling an anthpromorphic rabbit.  Elwood introduces Harvey to everyone he meets, but his social -climbing sisiter, Veta, increasingly finds his eccentric behavior embarrassing.  She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrasement.

When they arrive at the sanitarium, a comedy of errors ensues.  The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion.  When Elwood 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 the staff, including Dr. Chumley and his medical partner, Dr. Sanderson.  Only just before Elwood is to be given an injection that will make him into a "perfectly normal human being and you know what fools they are!" (in the words of a taxi cab driver who has become involved in the proceedings) does Veta realize that she'd rather have Elwood the same as he's always been - carefree and kind - even if it means living with Harvey.

2012 Season - Summer

“Cast of Characters for "Harvey"

Elwood P. Dowd...........          Jason Johnson

Myrtle Mae Simmons.....         Pamela Witte

Veta Louise Simmons.....        Sharon Lurix

Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet.....         Lea Keylon

Ruth Kelly, R.N.......              Josie Parsons

Duane Wilson......                 Mike Keylon

Lyman Sanderson, M.D.  ..  James Hinds-Martel

William R. Chumley, M.D.....     Ed Dotson

Betty Chumley ..........            Lori Lamphere

Judge Omar Gaffney ...             Larry Kingsley

E.J. Lofgren.......                        Wayne Wilkinson