Beebe High School Drama Department Presents Harvey

Beebe High School Drama Department Presents Harvey

Beebe High School Drama Department will present Harvey for their Fall production. The public performances will be Sunday, November 8th at 2:00 p.m., Monday, November 9th at 7:00 p.m., and Tuesday, November 10th at 7:00 p.m. in the Beebe Schools Auditorium. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students.

Harvey is a comedy written by Mary Chase. The story is about Elwood P. Dowd who insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. The trouble is Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarrassment for her family - and especially for her daughter, Myrtle Mae – Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, and so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out, however; Veta is freed, and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, looking for Harvey. But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have 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 after all.

The cast includes Kayleigh McCoy, Bo Copeland, Blake Gordan, Jarrod Rogers, Erin McNully, Cheyenne Mayo, Cade Benton, Evan Johnson, Delaney Daniel, Faith Fassett, and Joseph Weichbrodt.

Stage crew includes Jared Smith and Nick Weichbrodt, and Lucas Diffy.

Supporting cast and crew: Lily Kong, Nasasha Smith, Hannah Dyson, Alfonso Ramirez, Rachel Patrom, Emily Humphrey, and Frannie Richardson.

Harvey is produced by special arrangement with the Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York, New York.