Harvey is a 1944 play by American playwright Mary Chase. Directed by Antoinette Perry, the play premiered on 1 November 1944 at the 48th Street Theatre on Broadway where it was staged for 1,775 performances before closing on January 15, 1949. The original production was directed by Antoinette Perry and starred Frank Fay and Josephine Hull. The play also had a production in 1949 at London's Prince of Wales Theatre. Chase received the Pulitzer Priz...
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Harvey is a 1944 play by American playwright Mary Chase. Directed by Antoinette Perry, the play premiered on 1 November 1944 at the 48th Street Theatre on Broadway where it was staged for 1,775 performances before closing on January 15, 1949. The original production was directed by Antoinette Perry and starred Frank Fay and Josephine Hull. The play also had a production in 1949 at London's Prince of Wales Theatre. Chase received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in 1945.
The story is about an affable man Elwood P. Dowd and his imaginary friend Harvey, a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch tall rabbit. When Elwood starts to introduce Harvey, a pooka, to guests at a society party, his society-obsessed 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.
When they arrive at the sanitarium, due to a comedy of errors, the doctors...
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