Ricky Graham Leads Rivertown Theaters' HARVEY, Now thru 11/16

Chase's award-wining, heartwarming comedy "Harvey" by Mary Chase starring Ricky Graham.

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, one-and-one-half-inch tall pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit. Elwood introduces Harvey to everyone he meets. His social-climbing sister, Veta, increasingly finds his eccentric behavior embarrassing. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her and her daughter Myrtle Mae from future embarrassment.

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 sanitarium director Dr. Chumley and his business 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 bastards 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.

Directed by Gary Rucker, co-artistic director of Rivertown Theaters, the stellar cast includes some of the city's most talented actors.

Cast:

Helen Blanke	Veta Louise
Ricky Graham	Elwood P. Dowd
Linda Hubchen	Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet
Donald Lewis	E.J. Lofgren
Kevin Cannon	Judge Omar Gaffney
Jimmy deMontluzin	Duane Wilson
Chaney Tullos	Dr. Lyman Sanderson
Butch Caire	William R. Chumley MD
Emily Fortunato	Myrtle Mae
Kathryn Scott	Betty Chumley
Shelley Rucker	Nurse Kelly

Performances are Fridays & Saturdays - November 1 & 2; 8 & 9; 15 & 16 at 8:00pm, Sunday - November 3 & 10 at 2:00pm, Thursday - November 14 at 8:00 pm. Individual tickets are : $33.50 for Adults; $36.50 for Seniors; $33.50 for Students/Active Military.

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