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Harvey A celebrated success: This play has become one of the most successful and popular plays ever offered to non-professionals. When Elwood P.
Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot
rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as
much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have
him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and
their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when
Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when
she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood’s hallucination
have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead
of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood
and his invisible companion. When he 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 more than one of the doctors.
Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad
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