"Harvey" Program

Dear Friends and Family,

Greetings and welcome once again to Wor Wic Community College for our second show of the 2006/2007 season, the classic Harvey. If you are not familiar with Harvey, he is the ever intelligent and mindful, kind hearted white rabbit who looks after Elwood. Do you remember your childhood and having an imaginary friend – that one person (or rabbit) you could turn to for help, support, understanding and companionship. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all find that simple yet sweet and innocent imaginary friend today…

As always we thank you for your continued support and patronage of the arts and hope to see you again in the summer for our final production, the musical, The Fantasticks.

President .....................................................Sherri Trader-Hynes

Vice-President.................................................... Becky Mumford

Corresponding Secretary ...................................Rusty Mumford

Recording Secretary .................................................Cindy Gore

Treasurer ...............................................................Charles Linton

Immediate Past President .....................................Don Atkinson

Advertising ................................................................David Allen

Box Office ....................................................................John Alex

Concessions ..........................................................Brenda Allen

Fund Raising ......................................................Rusty Mumford

Historical .............................................................Bonnie Bosies

House......................................................................... Carol Alex

Maintenance ...........................................................Lester Huss

Membership ........................................................Terri Thornton

Nominations .....................................................Pat Oberholtzer

Patrons ...........................................................Ernest Matthews

Program ...........................David Allen and David Oberholtzer

Production ........................................................Becky Mumford

Publicity ...........................................Kristi Toadvine VanMeter

Scholarship .......................................................Rusty Mumford

Season Tickets ..............................................Ernest Matthews

The action of the play takes place in two settings in a small city somewhere in the western United States: the library of the Dowd mansion and the reception area of Chumley’s Rest, a private sanitarium for the mentally ill

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Scene 1 The Library, about an hour after the end of Act I

Scene 2 The Sanitarium, four hours after the end of Scene 1

Scene 1 The Sanitarium, immediately after the end of Act II

Producer................................................................................ Carol Alex

Stage Manager ............................................................Kate Schroeder

Set Designer................................................................. Ernie Matthews

Lighting ................................................................................Gary Finley

Sound Coordinator .....................................................Tom Robinson

Props .................................................................................Joanne Little

Costumes .................................................Carol Alex, Sallie Ridgway,

Set Construction ....Ernie Matthews, David Allen, Edison Hawkins,

Publicity .............................................................................Lester Huss

Cover Design & Poster .............................................Kathy Panchyk

Program ..............................David Allen, David and Pat Oberholtzer

Louise Essick

Flowers Unlimited

Holloway Funeral Home

Jones and Dryden Truck and Car Rental

Peninsula Pulmonary Associates

Peninsula Regional Medical Center

WBOC-TV

Don Atkinson (William R Chumley, M.D.) - As a trained psychiatrist with a national reputation and owner of Chumley's Rest, a mental patient sanitarium, I have been observing this cast and crew for several weeks. In my opinion, they are all suffering from mental illness. In laymen's terms, they are all NUTS! The cast, especially, behave as puppets whose strings are being pulled by some maniacal director (I believe his name is Kel Nagel). His intentions will only be made clear, I believe, if we let them progress through to their finale. On my part, I will let them proceed. If we interrupt them with laughter caused by their follies, the results will not be pretty, but they will be funny. So sit back, observe and take notes. You and I will confer afterwards and devise a course of treatment for these poor souls.

Bob Connelly (Judge Omar Gaffney) -. Bob Connelly (Judge Gaffney) has been in Community Players long enough to have been in two separate productions of My Fair Lady, the last as Henry Higgins. Among many other roles, he played Q-bomb inventor, Dr Kokintz in The Mouse That Roared and Grandpa in You Can't Take It with You. He played Gaffney in our 1982 production of Harvey, and says that this time we won't have to powder his hair to make him look old.

Amanda Welch Hamill (Nurse Kelly) - Mandy is a graduate of Catholic University with a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting. At Catholic, she appeared in such roles as Miss Julie in Miss Julie, Lady Macbeth and Beatrice in the Shakespeare Project, and Nina in The Seagull. She debuted with Players’ as Anne in Cheaper by the Dozen. Over the past fourteen years, she has been in such Players’ shows as Laura in the Glass Menagerie, Corie in Barefoot in the Park, and most recently Gillian in Bell, Book, & Candle. Mandy would like to thank her friends and family for all of their love and support. PS: Harvey, please stop taking Tom to "Blondie’s Chicken Inn."

Tom Hamill (Lyman Sanderson, M.D.) - Tom is thrilled to return to Players for his fourth play with them. While Players has served as a consistent way for Tom to exercise his thespian muscle, it also led him to his beautiful wife, Mandy, who also stars in this production of Harvey. Although Harvey's flirtatious ways have nearly led to marital strife, Tom is still thrilled to be spending so much time in the presence of such, in the words of Elwood P. himself, lovely people. Tom spends his spare time teaching English and Latin at Snow Hill High School.

Pam Lowe (Betty Chumley) - Born in Philly and raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Pamela Lowe is a country gal and an entrepreneur who wears many hats. There is the Mom hat, the researcher and development hat, the feline therapist hat, and now the actress hat! Miss Lowe would like to thank Kel Nagel and The Community Players of Salisbury for helping her break the stereotype of Bob Cratchet that formerly plagued her career in theater. Also a very special thanks to her life-long friend Kate Schroeder for taking her under her very talented wing and helping her bring life to Mrs. Chumley!

Rusty Mumford (Elwood P. Dowd) - Rusty has been a Players’ member for 20 years being involved in almost every production, either on stage or backstage. Rusty has been seen on Players’ stage in My Three Angels, The Wizard of Oz, Social Security, Lend Me a Tenor, The Mouse That Roared, Footloose, You Can’t Take It with You, Godspell and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. He directed Cheaper by the Dozen, Come Blow Your Horn, Spider’s Web, Meet Me in St. Louis and Anything Goes. Thanks to Becky, and his family for their love and support!

Mary Veise (Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet) - Mary got off her roller skates as Betty Blast in Footloose to appear in Anything Goes as a passenger. Now on dry land she portrays Mrs. Chauvenet. She has been involved in some way in almost all Players shows since The Sound of Music in 1970. Mary Veise is a Life Member and past President of Community Players.

Kel Nagel (Director) - Kel has performed in many Players productions since his debut as Big Jule’s bodyguard in Guys and Dolls in 1996. Favorite roles include Blessington in Solid Gold Cadillac, Charlie Cowell in Music Man, the evil Uncle Henri in My Three Angels and the president in The Mouse That Roared. Most recently he was the bishop in Anything Goes. Harvey is his second stab at directing. You Can’t Take It with You in 2005 was his first.

Carol Alex (Producer) - Carol works tirelessly behind the scenes. She serves as producer for this play, but also helps with costumes. She, as house manager, and her husband, John, as ticket committee chairman, make sure you get into the theatre and have a seat. Carol has been a Players officer for many years.

Gary Finley (Lighting Design) – Gary has been lighting shows for Wor-Wic Community College for over six years, including Lizzie Borden, the annual Dessert Theatre and Variety Shows. Most recently Gary has done lighting and special effects for Bell, Book and Candle and You Can't Take It with You, both Players productions.

Joanne Little (Props) - Joanne Little is a Lifetime Member of Players. She has handled props for many of our non-musical shows and been the pianist for more than 40 musicals. Her last on-stage role was in Come Blow Your Horn. She is organist and choir director at Manokin Presbyterian Church in Princess Anne.

Ernie Matthews (Set Design and Set Construction) - Ernie has been a backbone of The Community Players for many years. Not only are many of the sets you see on stage built under his direction, but he has had a hand in their design as well. That, however, is only one of his hats; he also takes care of our patrons and is in charge of season ticket sales and our regular tickets. He also finds time to direct occasionally.

Debby Nagel (set decorator) -.Debby has helped with sets, costumes and props in several shows. She previously was set decorator for You Can’t Take It with You and Don't Drink the Water.

Tom Robinson (Sound) - Tom is Technical Ministries Director for Christ UM Church. With Players, he is both on stage and behind the scenes. He was in Hello Dolly, The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis. He did special effects for The Wizard of Oz and You Can’t Take It with You and sound for Godspell, A Christmas Carol, How to Succeed in Business, Don’t Drink the Water, Footloose, and Laughing Stock.

Kate Schroeder (Stage Manager) - This is Kate's second involvement with The Community Players of Salisbury having debuted on stage in the June, 2005 production of Don't Drink the Water. Kate caught the theatre bug in high school when she was cast as one of the madwomen in The Madwomen of Chaillot, and has been actively involved in theatre in one way or another ever since. She relocated to this area from Chestertown, MD, leaving behind a community theatre group she co-founded in 1984 named Actor’s Community Theatre. She has worked in every conceivable capacity with ACT. Kate lives in Newark, MD with her husband, Jeff and works for a Consulting Engineering and Surveying Firm in Berlin, MD.

Kel Nagel