Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvey. Delightful fantasy about a drinking man who knows a 6-ft. rabbit (TIME...
...Harvey (by Mary Coyle Chase; produced by Brock Pemberton) is the funniest and most likable fantasy that Broadway has seen in years. Described in one sentence, this yarn about a balmy tosspot who knows an imaginary outsized rabbit named Harvey may suggest all the horrors of relentless whimsy. Distributed over three acts, Elwood P. Dowd and the hare of the dog that bit him become a delightful adventure in wackiness...
...Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when, in a tricky scene where mood is everything, he quietly talks to a psychiatrist about himself and Harvey, and sometimes doesn't talk-only sits and stares...
...play's faults-an overextended first act, an undernourished last one, some rubbishy minor characters, some razzle-dazzle farce-are pretty well buried underneath its fun. Underneath it, too, lies the hint given by many humorists that wackiness may be the last word in wisdom. Harvey, says Elwood, is greater than Einstein-Einstein did away with time & space, but Harvey does away with time, space-and objections...
...Harvey 47-year-old Frank Fay is playing his first straight Broadway role since he was a kid. As he sees it, he is playing entirely against himself: "There isn't a single Fay line in the whole part." But the performer with the large, tired face and the vague blue eyes is at least as distinctive as Elwood-and perhaps as quirky...