<em>Harvey</em> Returns to Broadway With Reinvigorated Charm

A very amiable and otherwise harmless man – he drinks a bit and his best friend is an invisible rabbit – is persecuted by relatives who want him institutionalized so he’ll stop embarrassing them. Complications ensue, but in the end the man and his invisible friend are restored to freedom, and the other characters reflect on the possibility that the most eccentric among us may have the firmest grip on what’s important in life. That plot sounds a bit quaint for sophisticated, cynical New York theatergoers in 2012, doesn’t it?