By Mary Chase
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Director: Chip Gertzog
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Assistant Director: Camille Marie Piazza
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Producer: Marie Custode
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Technical Director: Sarah Mournighan
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Stage Manager: Jim Gertzog
The Providence Players opened its twelfth season with this comedy classic. It is the story of Elwood P. Dowd, a good-natured, mild-mannered eccentric who is polite, cheerful and always friendly toward strangers. He has just one problematic character trait: his best friend is an invisible, six-foot-tall rabbit named Harvey. His sister and her daughter try to have him committed to the local sanitarium, where the behavior of the psychologist and his staff raise the age-old question of who is more dangerous to society: the easy-going dreamer with a vivid imagination or the people who want him to adjust to an accepted version of reality. Harvey won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945.
PERFORMANCE DATES
- Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25, 26, Oct. 2, 3, 9, 10, 2009
- Sunday Matinees 2:00 p.m. Sept. 27, Oct. 4, 2009
THE CAST
- Elwood P. Dowd: Mike Mattheisen
- Veta Louise Simmons: Beth Huges-Brown
- Myrtle Mae Simmons: Liz Smith
- William R. Chumley, M.D.: Matt Ames
- Lyman Sanderson, M.D.: Steve Smith
- Ruth Kelly, R.N.: Mary Frances Dini
- Judge Omar Gaffney: John Coscia
- Duane Wilson: Craig Geoffrion
- Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet: Sara Bennett
- Betty Chumley: Susan Kaplan
- E.J. Lofgren (Cab Driver): David Whitehead, Gerry Connolly
- Miss Johnson : Beth Harrison
- The Cast and Crew of the Providence Players Production of “Harvey”
PRODUCTION TEAM
- Director: Chip Gertzog
- Assistant Director: Camille Marie Piazza
- Producer: Marie Custode
- Technical Director: Sarah Mournighan
- Lighting Design: Sarah Mournighan, Chip Gertzog
- Sound Design: Chip Gertzog
- Technical Crew: Sarah Mournighan, Mary Goss, Lee Hausman, Jessica Pipes, Mike Mattheisen, Dave Whitehead, Jim Gertzog
- Stage Manager: Jim Gertzog
- Stage Crew: Tim Brown, Patrick David, Chip Gertzog, Jim Gertzog, Beth Harrison, Ari Post, Audrey Suarez, Bobby Welsh, David Whitehead, Josh Whitehead
- Set Design and Construction: John Coscia
- Set Construction Crew: Mark Ames, Matt Ames, Kirk Arant, Janet Bartelmay, Sara Bennett, April Bridgeman, Jim Campenella, Tom Coscia, Patrick David, Mary Frances Dini, Joe Gargiulo, Charlotte Gertzog, Chip Gertzog, Jim Gertzog, Kevin Harnisch, Beth Harrison, Lee Hausman, Beth Hughes-Brown, Mike Mattheisen, Sarah Mournighan, Camille Piazza, Dave Schwartz, Liz Smith, Steve Smith, Audrey Suarez, Tina Thronson, Bobby Welsch, David Whitehead
- Set Decoration: Doodie Brethwaite, Susan Devine, Mike Smith
- Properties: Cast and Production Team
- Costume Design: Robbie Snow, Beth Harrison
- Original Hat Creations: Kate Brown Pernia
- Hair and Makeup Design: Beth Harrison, Robbie Snow
- House Management: Ann and Matt Ames
- Playbill: Ellen Burns
- Photographer: Chip Gertzog
- Publicity: Chip Gertzog
PRODUCTION PHOTOS
Mike Mattheisen as Elwood P. Dowd
Liz Smith as Mrytle Mae and Beth Hughes-Brown as Veta Louise
Liz Smith, Beth Hughes Brown and John Coscia (Judge Omar Gaffney)
Mike Mattheisen as Elwood Dowd and Sara Bennett as Ethel Chauvenet
Steve Smith as Lyman Sanderson and Matt Ames as William R. Chumley, M.D
Steve Smith, Mary Frances Dini (as Ruth Kelly, R.N.), and Mike Mattheisen
Liz Smith as Myrtle Mae and Craig Geoffrion as Duane Wilson
John Coscia, Matt Ames and Craig Geoffrion
Mary Frances Dini, Mike Mattheisen, Steve Smith and Craig Geoffrion
Getting Ready for "Treatment" at Chumley Rest
Harvey Set: The Dowd Family Library
Harvey Set: Chumley Rest