It’s Your City: Broadway comedy ‘Harvey’ hits the Carson City stage
Submitted by editor on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 5:09pm
This week’s It’s Your City with host Cortney Bloomer is with Rachelle Resnick of Proscenium Players. The Carson City based theater group and the Brewery Arts Center present the Broadway comedy “Harvey” which launches Friday with several performances through the remainder of the month.
“Harvey” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Mary Chase. It is a theater classic about Elwood P. Dowd, an amiable middle-aged man whose favorite pastime is drinking in bars with his best friend. This sounds perfectly normal — except for the fact his best friend is a six-plus-foot-tall invisible rabbit named Harvey.
Elwood explains Harvey is a “pooka,” a kindly but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology who carefully chooses those he befriends. Elwood’s sister, Veta Louise, and niece Myrtle Mae are naturally convinced that Elwood is off his rocker.
They conspire to have him committed to the local sanitarium so they can carry on with their social-climbing activities without the embarrassment Elwood causes when he casually introduces Harvey to their upper-crust acquaintances. In a series of comic misunderstandings, Veta Louise is the one who ends up committed, while Elwood wins the admiration of the staff —and perhaps convinces others that Harvey is much more than a figment of his imagination! Jimmy Stewart was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Elwood Dowd, and Josephine Hull won an Oscar as best supporting actress for her portrayal of Veta Louise.
It's Your City guest Resnick is the director. Performances will be at the MHJ Box Theater of the Brewery Arts Center on Fridays and Saturdays, April 23, 29 and 30, beginning at 7 p.m. and Sundays, April 24 and May 1 beginning at 2 p.m. Go here for information on the Proscenium Players.
See the video below.
