Broadway ‘Harvey’ Cast Firms Around ‘Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons

COMMENTS (12)

• Out of the box, Seth Rogen as Dowd and a Harvey who likes to talk about banging female bunnies.

  Comment by MrJeff — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 8:30am PST  Reply to this post

  • You just described the entire plot of FX’s “Wilfred.”

    Comment by ElijahWood — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 7:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• I hope Dowd doesn’t become “Sheldon”.
  There’s a big difference between eccentric and socially dysfunctional.
  Now we’ll see if Parsons can really act.

  Comment by Lytton Strachey — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 9:40am PST  Reply to this post

• I remember what director Joe Pytka said once, “Anyone can act. Comedy is hard. You either laugh or you don’t. You can’t fake that. If it’s not funny, then it’s just stupid. I love an actor who can make me laugh.”
  Well, Parsons is one of the few who makes me laugh. What a great talent. One of the few really funny guys in lalaland. Good for him.

  Comment by John Tyler — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 11:48am PST  Reply to this post

• Not that they couldn’t find the right Dowd but the right Dowds both turned down the part, Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Hanks turned down the role because they have sense enough to know that some movies should not be remade.

  Comment by Phil S. — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 12:15pm PST  Reply to this post

  • its a limited Broadway run, not a movie

    Comment by joe — Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 11:21am PST  Reply to this post

• I caught onto THE BIG BANG just this past year; and Parsons has the comedy chops.
  HARVEY is totally him. I can’t see anyone else doing the movie again it at this point, unless it’s an unknown. Comedy will always be tougher than tragedy, and Parsons will prove it on Broadway.

  Comment by mark georgeff — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 8:06pm PST  Reply to this post

• I’m not really a fan of Big Bang, but I can see Parson’s in this part

  Comment by joe — Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 11:22am PST  Reply to this post

• Love Big Bang Theory, and it is due to his character….Good for him.

  Comment by MB at custom signs — Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 12:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• That delusional Hollywood wannabe Mayim Bialik and her Big Bang alter-ego Amy Farrah Fowler has ruined The Big Bang Theory for me, but I pathetically love Jim Parsons—the talented man is a force of nature. I have no doubt he will pull off the eccentric Elwood P. Dowd swimmingly. And if Spielberg takes notice, perhaps this could be the beginning of a promising big screen career for Parsons. No one on TV today deserves it more.

  Comment by Samantha Lee — Friday December 2, 2011 @ 2:39am PST  Reply to this post

• Dear Jim,
  FYI, the electron that does a right angle turn, then a wing-over, then another right angle turn, is NOT an electron. It is part of a photo taken by a camera crew from a New Zealand cargo plane in flight over New Zealand. The photo appears on one frame and is 1/10 of a second long. This appears on the back cover of Ivan T. Sanderson, “Invisible Residents, the reality of underwater UFO’s”. The light went on in my brain when I saw the electron motion on the two December shows, approx Dec i, and Dec 8. The other 6 frames on the back cover are normal. These photos were taken on Dec 30, 1978! What a cover-up! Just thought I’d let you know the the G-forces would be horrendous on a human, but not on the UFO pilots.
  Love the show. One question? How do you memorize, or do you know the scientific words you speak? I can follow alot of the words and they are correct. I am a Senior Design Engineer and loved the episode with the “septic tank” for the space station. Looking forward to new episodes.
  Sincerely,
  Alfred H. Berger
  San Diego, CA

  Comment by Alfred H. Berger — Saturday December 10, 2011 @ 9:28am PST  Reply to this post

• Hi Jim parssons is kennedy munsell i love the show of harve and the big bag theroy

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 3:54pm PDT  Reply to this post