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Review  NY Review: 'Harvey'    • Share:  NY Review: 'Harvey'
Photo Source: Joan Marcus Never underestimate a warhorse. Though
I've enjoyed "Harvey" in the past, particularly in the hands of
Helen Hayes and James Stewart in a 1972 TV version based on
their hit Broadway revival, I really didn't expect Mary Chase's
popular 1944 comedy to fly in our much more cynical age. So I'm
happy to report that Roundabout Theatre Company's production at
Studio 54 is a lighter-than-air lark grounded by a strain of
touching melancholy. Chase's gentle fable about the costs of
conformity and the human need for connection states universal
truths that continue to resonate. It's also a hell of a lot of
fun.  Under director Scott Ellis' careful eye, Chase's tale of
the courtly Elwood P. Dowd and his best friend, Harvey, a pooka
who takes the form of an invisible white rabbit standing 6 feet
3 1/2 inches tall, gets some judicious pruning. A minor
character (the family maid)