Amy Bouchard’s
Amadeus Never Gives Me the Blues

The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage

April 11 – May 23, 2026

Saturdays at 5pm

No Show: April 25
Opening Night Reception: May 2

Written & Performed by Amy Bouchard
Accompanied by Daniel Lockert
Developed with & Directed by David Ford
Mentoring and Coaching with Mark Kenward
Additional Coaching with Tina D’Elia and Kenny Yun

Ticket Information

Tickets: $25 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating

75 minutes | No Intermission | Ages 11+

(Please do not bring infants to the show)

Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.

Show Description

An up-and-coming opera singer, Amy is torn between equal desires for career and family. She meets and falls in love with Luis just as her career is taking off, forcing her to make choices in situations she doesn’t know how to handle. Her Nana, who is sick in the hospital, gave up her career as a jazz singer to marry a Navy pilot during WW2. When things go wrong with Luis and the instability of a performer’s life hits home, the outmoded choice her grandmother made starts making sense. A musical with songs from opera, Broadway, and the Great American Songbook.

Artist Biographies

Amy Bouchard (Writer & Performer) has performed with numerous opera and theatre companies. She found David Ford’s class at The Marsh in the fall of 2020 and won a 2021 TITAN Award from Theatre Bay Area to support the development of her first full-length solo show. She has performed at The Marsh, Solo Sundays, and Tell It On Tuesday, and won “Best Up and Coming” at The Marsh International Solo Festival 2022. Amy has performed lead and supporting roles with Opera Santa Barbara, West Bay Opera, Livermore Valley Opera, Berkeley Playhouse, and San Jose Playhouse among others. www.amybouchard.net

David Ford (Director & Developer) has been collaborating on new and unusual theater for three
decades and has been associated with The Marsh for most of that time. The San Francisco press
has variously called him “the solo performer maven,” “the monologue maestro,” “the dean of
solo performance,” and “the solo performer’s best friend.” A week rarely goes by when residents
of the Bay Area cannot enjoy one of his productions. Collaborators include Geoff Hoyle, Brian
Copeland, Charlie Varon, Echo Brown, Marilyn Pittman, Rebecca Fisher, Wayne Harris, Jill
Vice, and Marga Gomez. Ford’s work has been seen regionally at The Public Theater, Second
Stage Theater, Theatre at St. Clement’s, Dixon Place, Theatre for the New City (New York),
Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co. (Washington,
D.C.). His work has also been featured in most of the fringe festivals in North America, and at
theaters around the Bay Area including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Magic Theatre, and
Marin Theatre. Ford’s directing has garnered several “Best of Fringe” Awards and
a Goldie Award.

Daniel Lockert (Accompaniment) is a Bay Area-based pianist, organist, and harpsichordist
whose work spans solo performance, collaborative piano, and choral accompaniment. He has
served on the staffs and faculties of the The Juilliard School, San Francisco Opera, Opera San
José, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Chapman University, Cal State East Bay, Notre
Dame de Namur University, Holy Names University, Mills College, Santa Clara University, and
the Aspen Music Festival. Lockert has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan,
Australia, and New Zealand, and serves each summer as accompanist for the chorus at the
Mendocino Music Festival. He currently holds positions as bass section leader and assistant
organist at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, pianist & organist at Temple Isaiah in
Lafayette, and accompanist for the Ashmolean Chorus of Rossmoor in Walnut Creek.

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