CHS student pulls a rabbit out of hat in CCT’s Harvey
By Canton Citizen
L-R: Nino Ruggeri (director), Bethany McDonald, Martine Assaf, Jack Chambers, Amy Delaney, Charli Carey, David Palmer and Daniel Sweetland (Moira Sweetland photo)
Canton Community Theatre (CCT) proudly presents Mary Coyle Chase’s American favorite Harvey, a student-directed production featuring Canton High School junior Nino Ruggeri in his directorial debut. The show opens June 10 with performances to follow on June 11 and 16-18, all starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Village Shoppes, 95 Washington Street in Canton.
Upon entering the Broadway stage in 1944, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, and its initial run lasted for four years and 1,775 performances. It has continually been revived around the globe since then. It was also adapted to film in 1950, starring Hollywood legend James Stewart, and has become one of Stewart’s best-loved films.
The story is about Elwood P. Dowd, a good-natured, mild-mannered eccentric who is a known caricature in his small town’s shops and saloons. Always polite, cheerful and friendly toward anyone he might encounter, Elwood seems to possess one flaw: his best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit named Harvey. As described by Dowd, Harvey is a pooka, a benign but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology who is especially fond of social outcasts like Elwood.
Living with his sister and niece, his family seems to be unsure whether Dowd’s fascination and obsession with Harvey is a product of his self-admitted propensity to drink or perhaps just plain mental illness. More inclined to believe it is the latter of the two, Elwood’s sister and niece try to have him committed to the local sanitarium where the behavior of a prominent psychologist and his staff raise the age-old question of who is more dangerous to society: the easy-going dreamer with a vivid imagination or the people who want him to conform to the accepted version of reality.
The production features several residents and students from the Canton area, including (in alphabetical order) Sung Ahn, Jack Chambers, Amy Delaney, Stacy Drew, Sarah Flanagan, Katie LeDonne, Bethany MacDonald, David Palmer, and Danny Sweetland. Rounding out the cast are Charli Carey from Brockton and Martin Assaf from Quincy.
Tickets to the show are $15 per person and can be purchased at the door or at cantoncommunitytheatre.org. For more info, email cantoncommunitytheatre@gmail.com.
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Posted by Canton Citizen
on Jun 10 2016. Filed under News.
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