Harvey

[watervole]

I was working on a story yesterday (and actually making progress!) when one of the characters turned round and suddenly said "And here's my friend Harvey", gesturing to the empty seat beside her.[Poll #1030775]

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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

More film fans than Farscape fans, I guess. (Is it a real Farscape reference? I wouldn't know. What's more, I only know there's a character called Scorpius in Farscape because of Harry Potter wank.)

[dougs.livejournal.com]

It's a film? I saw the play.

[(Anonymous)]

*Ouch!*

Okay, you got me. I've never seen it on stage...

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

*Ouch!*

Okay, you got me. I've never seen it on stage...

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I saw the play in London in the 70s with Jimmy Stewart in the lead - but I don't think it's been revived since. (High time it was).

There must be lots of othre Harveys (Nichols? Smith?) but my mind defaults to the white rabbit.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

It toured after its London run, I saw it in Windsor. I was very very young.

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous. I've read the play, but only actually seen the film.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Also a rather sweet filk song (I think by Joey Shoji) based on the play/film.

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

I must admit to only knowing the reference from the filk song. :)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued. Is the filk song on the web?

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether the song is on the web. I have it on a very old filk tape - probably one of the Bayfilk tapes. I'll look it out, if you like (but not tonight - I'm just getting over a bug and I'm about to crawl into bed.)

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The song is actually by Kathy Mar and the lyrics are here

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Harvey-lyrics-Kathy-Mar/B1D04AD842F50D4948256DC90012181D

I have it on a Joey Shoji tape somewhere, which is why I thought it might be his.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's a good song. Now, if only the melody was there as well, I could have tried to play it.

The words bring back the movie to me!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

If you like I can try and find the tape and copy the song for you.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I'd like that. Thanks. I think Harvey is going to be in this story for some time and the song feels very right. (I just have to resist the temptation to try and sing it until my voice is recovered from the Teledu bug)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Thanks. (If you're at Recombination, you could sing it to me)

I always find it a pain that so little filk seems to be on the web.

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

It's a real Farscape reference- the lead character gets a chip put in his head by Scorpius, which causes him to see a hallucinatory Scorpius that no-one else can see. To distinguish this from the real one, the lead character refers to the illusion as Harvey, after the six-foot rabbit that only Jimmy Stewart could see