Arts & Entertainment
Sentimental ‘Harvey’ uneven, ‘pleasant’; leave unseen
By John Heuertz
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Remember that one Sunday
afternoon when the realization
slowly dawned on you that you had
the TV all to yourself? Mom and
Dad went to Omaha for the day,
your brother—master of “dibs”—
just left, and your sister had that
thing that kept her in bed all day?
Some old black-and-white movie
came on with Jimmy Stewart. It
was about a guy whose best friend
was a 6-foot invisible rabbit named
Harvey. Remember the feeling of
losing yourself? And remember
being able to hang on to that feeling
most of the afternoon?
If you’ve had a secret desire
since childhood to relive that Sun
day afternoon in a live theater
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production of “Harvey,” you may
want to reconsider your plans to
call up the University Club and
make reservations. Lincoln
Ensemble’s version of “Harvey” is
just unpolished enough to interrupt
the luxury of forgetting reality.
There were probably a dozen spots
in last Friday’s performance where
an actor choked on his lines. None
of the performances were particu
larly outstanding, but one or two
were a bit weak.
Lita Sheldon Zimbelman plays
Veta Louise Simmons, the sister
and supporter of the gregarious
Elwood P. Dowd. She is relatively
convincing as a nervous social
climber concerned about the
threats to her and her daughter’s
reputation that her pooka-loving
brother poses. By the end of the
performance I almost believed
Zimbclman’s character, but it took
until the end of the performance to
be convinced. She seemed to
understand her character, but her
physical actions were stiff and the
bulk of her deliveries sounded only
like an outstanding first reading.
The best performance came
from Tom Martin, a local dentist,
who played the leading role of
Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart’s
role). The character doesn’t have a
lot of depth; he’s not supposed to.
Dowd’s description of himself is
“pleasant.” His mother always told
him that a person could either go
through life being smart or being
pleasant. Elwood tells us that he
tried smart for a while and now he
prefers being pleasant. Martin is
properly pleasant as Dowd.
Good casting was involved in
giving the role of Mr. Wilson, the
sanitarium orderly, to John C. Will.
Will is big and mean looking. It’s
too bad he diminished his intimi
dating quality by stumbling on so
many lines. Part of this may be
because he was cast after another
actor was injured a few weeks into
rehearsal and could not continue
the role.
If you love the theater and you
love “Harvey,” maybe your love
can see past the crudeness of this
production. If your aesthetic sensi
tivity is on the prudish side, or if
you’re looking to relive that one
Sunday afternoon of your child
hood, you might want to hold off on
this one. But keep in mind that
local theater, if you want to sec it
thrive, depends upon your support.
The contract between Lincoln
Ensemble Theater and the Univer
sity Club is an effort to give Lin
coln a dinner theater. A lot of the
same cri tics who raise their noses at
imperfect theater are the same ones
crying about the cultural inferior
ity of Lincoln to Omaha. One of the
main points of their argument lies
in the success of Omaha’s dinner
theaters. Lincoln is still struggling
to raise its dinner theater out of
infancy and onto its own two feet.
“Harvey” continues perform
ances beginning Thursday and
plays through Saturday. Reserva
tions are required and cost $20 per
person for dinner and the show or
$5 for just the show. The Univer
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