The Resume

“PLAYING DAVID FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW, MICHAEL BOUCHARD IS SUPREMELY CONFIDENT AND COMFORTABLE IN THE ROLE.”

“BOUCHARD’S DAVID HEARKENS (THE HERALD ANGELS…) BACK TO EARLY ROBIN WILLIAMS OR, FOR THE YOUNGER CROWD, BILL BURR. HE’S A BALL OF BURNING ENERGY, A MILE-A-MINUTE DIALOGUE DELIVERY SYSTEM.”

“ACTOR MICHAEL BOUCHARD STOLE THE SHOW. YES, HE STOLE HIS OWN SHOW. LIKE, HE WAS SO FUNNY, EVEN OFTEN TIMES IMPROVISATIONAL, THAT THE AUDIENCE AROUND ME WERE LAUGHING WITH SUCH ABANDON THAT I FOUND THEM DISTRACTING, BUT I COULDN’T CARE AS I TOO WAS LAUGHING HEARTILY THROUGHOUT. I EVEN FELT ENVIOUS OF BOUCHARD. YOU COULD SEE THAT HE WAS HAVING AN EVEN BETTER TIME THAN THE REST OF US, BUT HE SPREAD HIS SARCASTIC CHRISTMAS JOY THROUGH HIS HUMOR AND ACTING, LEAVING US WITH TEARS IN OUR CREASED, SMILING EYES.”

“LOCAL FAVORITE MICHAEL BOUCHARD PLAYS A BAKER WITH DELUSIONS OF ELOQUENCE, AND AS USUAL, THE IMPRESSION HE MAKES FAR EXCEEDS THE NUMBER OF MINUTES HE ACTUALLY APPEARS ON STAGE.”

“...AND YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO EXPERIENCE MICHAEL BOUCHARD’S DELIVERY OF RAGUENEAU’S TART POEM.”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD PLAYS [COSTARD] WITH PERFECT TIMING AND TURNS IN THE FUNNIEST PERFORMANCE OF THE EVENING”

“BOUCHARD IS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW AS THE CLOWN COSTARD — HE DRAWS GUT LAUGHS EVEN AS HE REFERENCES ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY AND ELIZABETHAN FOIBLES.”

“AS THE CLOWN COSTARD, MICHAEL BOUCHARD CONTINUES HIS WINNING RUN OF FRONT RANGE PERFORMANCES. COMEDY, ESPECIALLY UNDERSTATED COMEDY, AIN’T EASY, AND BOUCHARD IS A NATURAL COMEDIAN.”

“ANY GOOD COMEDY TEAM, FROM LAUREL AND HARDY TO THE BLUES BROTHERS, NEEDS TO HAVE THIS PSYCHIC CONNECTION BETWEEN THEM, AND SEAN AND MICHAEL HAD IT. THEY WERE CONNECTED. THEY WERE BREATHING THE SAME AIR. AND AS ACTORS, THEY WERE BOTH PLAYING THE FUNNY AND THE STRAIGHT MAN AT THE SAME TIME, WHICH IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO DO.”

“LIKE A MODERN DAY LAUREL AND HARDY OR ABBOT AND COSTELLO, BOUCHARD AND SCRUTCHINS MAKE AN EXCELLENT COMIC DUO. WHETHER THEY’RE FLIPPING QUARTERS, FORGETTING WHICH ONE OF THEM IS ROSENCRANTZ AND WHICH ONE IS GUILDENSTERN OR DELIVERING STOPPARD’S STERLING DIALOGUE — LIKE, “WHO IS THE ENGLISH KING? DEPENDS ON WHEN WE GET THERE.” — THEY ARE MORE THAN A PLEASURE TO WATCH.”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD MAKES SCOTTY REAL AND SYMPATHETIC, WITH JUST A TOUCH OF IMPISH CHARM”

“BOUCHARD IS SUCH A PLEASANT STRAIGHT MAN TO THE ELDER COMEDIENNES THAT WE NEVER SEE THE ZINGER COMING THAT HE PLANTS AT THE CONCLUSION.”

“IN HYSTERIA, A STRANGE AND FASCINATING MIX OF TRAGEDY AND FARCE, MICHAEL BOUCHARD PLAYED SALVADOR DALÍ — HE OF THE ASTONISHING WAXED MUSTACHE, MELTING CLOCKS AND SURREAL LANDSCAPES. BOUCHARD WAS EVERYTHING YOU COULD WISH FOR IN THIS FABULOUS ROLE. HE MINCED, HE SMIRKED, HE RATTLED AND PRANCED, HE TOOK OFF HIS PANTS AND DONNED THEM AGAIN, HE UNDERSTOOD PRECISELY THE LINE HE NEEDED TO TREAD BETWEEN REALISM AND FARCICAL LUNACY, AND HE ENJOYED HIMSELF SO THOROUGHLY THAT YOU COULDN'T HELP LAUGHING AT HIS EVERY MOVE, BECOMING SLIGHTLY DISAPPOINTED WHEN HE WAS CALLED ON TO BE SERIOUS.”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD IS SO WONDERFULLY FUNNY AS DALÍ THAT I WAS ALMOST SORRY WHEN HE HAD TO BE SERIOUS — AND DELIGHTED BY HIS EVERY MOVE BACK TOWARD FULL-OUT FARCE.”

“JUST WHEN YOU THINK THE HYSTERICS HAVE PEAKED, DALI (MICHAEL BOUCHARD) ARRIVES TO SEND THE STORY INTO OVERDRIVE. BOUCHARD IS A FONT OF ZANINESS AS THE FAMED SPANISH SURREALIST WITH THE WORLD'S MOST RECOGNIZABLE MOUSTACHE.”

“BOUCHARD MANAGES TO INVEST THE SHOW WITH A SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE DEGREE OF FARCICAL COMEDY, PLAYING UP THE ECCENTRICITIES OF ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S MOST ECCENTRIC ARTISTS.”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD’S JOHN IS EXQUISITE; BOUCHARD EMBODIES JOHN’S AMBIGUOUS SEXUAL ORIENTATION. THERE IS NO FLAW IN HIS PERFORMANCE. HE IS IN LOVE WITH TWO PEOPLE AND YET HE IS TORN TO SHREDS TRYING TO BETRAY NEITHER OF THEM. HE IS AT TIMES A PITIFUL COWARD. HE IS CONFUSED AND AFRAID. BOUCHARD HOLDS NOTHING BACK; BY THE END OF THE PLAY, HE IS EXHAUSTED, PUNCH DRUNK FROM THE FIGHT, AND UNRESPONSIVE.”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD PLAYS JOHN LIKE AN EVERYMAN. HIS EMOTIONS UNFOLD GRADUALLY THROUGHOUT THE SHOW UNTIL HE EVENTUALLY BARES IT ALL. HE'S CHARMING IN A GOOFY, UNDERSTATED MANNER.”

“THE MAIN CHARACTER, JOHN, GRIPPINGLY PLAYED BY MICHAEL BOUCHARD, IS A BEWILDERED GAY MAN WHOSE WORLD IS THROWN INTO THE BOXING RING WHERE HE BECOMES THE CONSOLATION PRIZE.”

“AS PATO’S BROTHER, RAY, MICHAEL BOUCHARD IS PRICKLY AND RESTIVE, WITH A SELF-ABSORPTION THAT MAKES HIM MORE THAN A LITTLE LIKE MAG.”

“BEST OF ALL IS 'YOU WON'T SUCCEED ON BROADWAY IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY JEWS,'”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD'S ROBIN IS A MIX OF IMPISH AND WRY, WITH SPOT-ON COMIC TIMING.”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD IS A STITCH AS SIR ROBIN AND BROTHER MAYNARD. THIS ARTIST NEEDS TO BE IN LOTS MORE MUSICALS!”

“AND MICHAEL BOUCHARD NEARLY STEALS THE SHOW FROM GREGORY WITH HIS EVER-SCHEMING LENCK.”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD IS IN FINE VOICE AND A WHIRLWIND OF CREATIVE ENERGY.”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD RUNS OFF WITH THE EVENING. HE'S FILLED WITH BRAVADO BUT ALSO WAIFLIKE, AUTHORITATIVE — ITALY ONCE RULED THE WORLD AS AMERICA DOES NOW, BALDO OBSERVES, BUT "WE GAVE IT UP. IT WAS TOO MUCH TROUBLE" — AND ACCOMMODATING, FULL OF FAKERY AND GRAND GESTURE AND STILL VERY APPEALINGLY HUMAN. THIS PERFORMANCE ALONE MAKES A TOUCH OF SPRING WORTH YOUR TIME.”

“...THE PLAY REALLY BELONGS TO MICHAEL BOUCHARD AS BALDASSARE PANTALEONE”

“BOUCHARD HIGHLIGHTS IMPRESSIVE ENSEMBLE CAST”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD REALLY STOOD OUT AS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND THE REST. WHILE THE ENTIRE CAST WAS ENDEARING, FUNNY, AND EMBRACED VERY DIFFERENT CHARACTERIZATIONS (WITHOUT GOING TOO FAR OVER THE TOP, WHICH IS A DANGER), BOUCHARD WAS EVEN MORE GENUINE ON TOP OF THAT, WHICH MADE YOU ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE FATE OF HIS CHARACTER (BEYOND AN AMUSED FASCINATION WITH HOW THE PLOT WILL RESOLVE).”

“MICHAEL BOUCHARD WHO KILLS [AS ROD]. HAVING SEEN BOUCHARD IN A FEW ROLES, I PRETTY SURE THAT HE COULD MAKE THE PHONE BOOK HYSTERICAL AND HE MAKES THE MOST OF HIS CHARACTER.”

“...IT WAS MICHAEL BOUCHARD THAT STOLE THE SHOW WITH HIS IMPECCABLE TIMING AND SINCERE HEART DURING HIS SCENES WITH THE CRATCHIT FAMILY. HE WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH MULTIPLE CHARACTERS THAT TRULY CREATED DEFINED AND DISTINCT PEOPLE, EVEN AS HE PLAYED MRS. FEZZIWIG – WHO MADE NOT HAVE SAID ANYTHING BUT HE MADE THE CHARACTER HILARIOUS WITH HIS PHYSICALITY.”