The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey by Mary Chase features Elwood P. Dowd, who insists on going everywhere with his friend Harvey, a shapeshifting “pooka” who appears as a six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. To avoid future embarrassment, his sister Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium, resulting in mixups and confusion, with Elwood and his invisible companion having a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. In the end, Veta realizes that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.
Directing Harvey is Lisa M. Ramos. The cast of Harvey includes Jeff Broitman as Elwood P. Dowd, Robert Dean*, Courtney Farney, Russ Gager*, Erin Gordon, Eric S. Prahl*, Grant Petrucci, Claire Rutkowski*, Gayle Starr, Atlas Smyth and Julie Ultrup-O’Nan (*denotes SSP company member).
The production team includes SSP company members Emil Zbella as set designer; Paula Kenar as properties manager; Sean Smyth as sound designer, production stage manager and co-producer; and Jim Masini as co-producer. Also on the team are Grace M. Weir as costume designer and Lex Newman as lighting designer.