Cast announced for Ritz comedy ‘Harvey’

TIFFIN — The Ritz Players present “Harvey” by Mary Chase at 7:30 p.m. May 6, 12 and 13 and 2 p.m. May 7.

Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. 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.

Cast and crew (from Tiffin unless otherwise noted) are Ellie Dible (Upper Sandusky) as Myrtle Mae Simmons, Laura Warren as Veta Louise Simmons, Matthew Parker (Castalia) as Elwood P. Dowd, Sheryl Swaisgood Burtch (Fostoria) as Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet, Jamie Forrest as Ruth Kelly R.N., Terry Love as Duane Wilson, Chris Bilecki (Huron) as Lyman Sanderson M.D., Edmund Lynn Murray as William R. Chumley, M.D., Amy LeGrant as Betty Chumley, Jeff Stockner as Judge Omar Gaffney, Carlene Hitchcock as Miss Johnson, Kevin Roessner as E.J. Lofgren and Jim Cooke (Sycamore) as the director.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students.