3 Best Elwood Monologues

Category: Play Role: Elwood From: Harvey

ELWOOD: Aunt Ethel, I want you to meet Harvey. As you can see, he”s a Pooka. (To HARVEY) Harvey, you”ve often heard me speak of Mrs. Chauvenet. We always called her Aunt Ethel. She”s one of my oldest and dearest friends. (Listens.) Yes -yes -that”s right -she”s the one. (ETHEL looks around wildly.) Harvey said he would have known you anywhere. Now come along, Harvey. We must say hello to the rest of the guest. (Bows to Ethel.) I beg your pardon, Aunt Ethel. (Puts his hands on her arm.) You are standing in his way. (To HARVEY) Come along, Harvey. (He watches Harvey cross to the door.) Huh-uh (He straightens Harvey”s tie and takes a speck of dirt off his suit coat.) You look fine. Now go right on in. (Elwood turns back to Ethel.) Aunt Ethel, I can see you”re disturbed about Harvey. Please don”t be. He stares like that at everyone. It”s his way. But he liked you. I could tell. He liked you very much.More Monologues from the Play, “Harvey”RelatedShareTweetPin

Category: Play Role: Elwood From: Harvey

ELWOOD: One night, several years ago, I was walking early in the evening, alone. Fairfax Street -between 18th and 19th. I had just helped Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his rye with his gin, and I felt he needed some help getting home. I started to walk down the street when I heard a voice saying, “Good evening, Mr. Dowd.” I turned and there was this great white rabbit leaning against a lamp post. Well, I thought nothing of that because when you live in a town as long as I have lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name. Naturally I went over to chat with him. He said to me, “Ed Hickey was a little spiffed this evening, or could I be mistaken?” Well, of course he was not mistaken. I think the world and all of Ed, but he was spiffed. So we stood there and talked and finally I said, “You have the advantage of me. You know my name, but I don”t know yours.” Right back at me he said, “What name do you like?” Well, I didn”t even have to think a minute. Harvey has always been my favorite name. So I said, “Harvey” -and this is the interesting part of the whole thing. He said, “What a coincidence. My name happens to be Harvey!”More Monologues from the Play, “Harvey”RelatedShareTweetPin

Category: Play Role: Elwood From: Harvey

ELWOOD: Harvey and I sit in bars and play the jukebox. Soon the faces of the other people turn toward mine and smile. They”re saying, “We don”t know your name, mister, but you”re a lovely fellow.” Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We have entered as strangers… and soon we have friends. They talk to us. They tell about the terrible things they have done. The big wonderful things they will do. Their hopes, their regrets, their loves, their hates. All large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey. And he is bigger and grander than anything they can offer me. When they leave, they leave impressed. These same people seldom come back because they”ve told what they need to tell, and they”ve seen a little bit of a miracle. They no longer have a need to go back to a bar again.More Monologues from the Play, “Harvey”RelatedShareTweetPin