Harvey, show on Broadway, Variety review
Harvey (Studio 54; 1,002 seats; $140 top) By Marilyn Stasio 'Harvey' Jessica Hecht and Jim Parson in 'Harvey' A Roundabout Theater Company production of a play in two acts by Mary Chase. Directed by Scott Ellis. Myrtle Mae Simmons - Tracee Chimo Veta Louise Simmons - Jessica Hecht Elwood P. Dowd - Jim Parsons Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet - Angela Paton Ruth Kelly, R.N. - Holley Fain Duane Wilson - Rich Sommer Lyman Sanderson, M.D. - Morgan Spector William R. Chumley, M.D. - Charles Kimbrough Betty Chumley - Carol Kane Judge Omar Gaffney - Larry Bryggman E.J. Lofgren - Peter Benson Comedy can be deadly. Just a few directorial misjudgments and uh-oh, sudden death: forced laughs, desperate thesps, and an aud growing surlier by the minute. Something like that has befallen the Roundabout's revival of "Harvey," Mary Chase's 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a lovable man (memorably played by James Stewart in the 1951 movie) whose best friend is a 6-foot-...