Posted on January 30, 2012
“Jersey Boys, you’re just too good to be true. Can’t take our eyes off of you… Jersey Boys, which opened its national tour Sunday at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, is every bit as good as you’ve heard it is… Much praise has been heaped on the award-winning Four Seasons on Broadway, but it’s hard to imagine anyone better than the guys in the touring cast. Michael Ingersoll is Nick Massi, the quieter, classier one; Deven May is Tommy DeVito, the gambler and de facto older brother; Erich Bergen is Bob Gaudio, the musical mastermind; and Christopher Kale Jones is Frankie Valli, the voice. The guys sound great and look sharp… I can’t say enough about the fab four at the story’s center… These guys are stars in the making. Who needs Broadway when the tour is this good?”
-Inside Bay Area
“Night after night, the audience in San Francisco’s Curran Theatre doesn’t even ask permission to applaud… they just do! In the middle of songs no less, they’re on their feet, swimming in the ubiquitous sound of The Four Seasons during the first tour engagement of the Tony Award-winning musical, Jersey Boys. This act hits all the right notes… (and) features four knock-out leading men backed by an explosive band… Rounding out the quartet is Michael Ingersoll as the late-Nick Massi. Ingersoll’s controlled, open voice is the perfect piece to the rich and flawless harmonies. His second-act tirade atop an unrelenting bass line is eminent and biting.”
-Broadway World
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Posted on January 30, 2012
“MICHAEL INGERSOLL HELPS LARSON’S 3-CHARACTER PIECE ROAR WITH COMPASSION”
“The main reason why this version is so good is the presence of Michael Ingersoll in the lead role. Ingersoll is a newcomer to Chicago, but once casting agents get a look at this dripping-with-talent young fellow, he won’t need further introduction. Not only does he have a great set of pipes and laudable interpretive skills with a song, he actually looks and acts like a writer-composer type rather than an actor… Far better than the lead in the national tour of this show a couple of years back, Ingersoll has this character down cold—the vulnerability, the charm, the musical chops, the gentle but persistent neuroses. He makes you want him to win, which is the point.”
-Chicago Tribune
“AS GREAT COMPOSER REMEMBERED, NEW STAR GOES ‘BOOM!’”
“His name is Michael Ingersoll. Remember it. He has just recently arrived in Chicago, after working in Cincinnati and Memphis. And he’s got ‘star’ written all over him. In fact, Monday night at Pegasus Players, as the actor flew through tick, tick … BOOM! – Jonathan Larson’s beguiling pre-Rent musical – I was ready to slip him a note that read: ‘Start learning the score for Jersey Boys; you might have a real shot at that hit show’s national tour.’ He’s that good, as both actor and singer. It doesn’t hurt at all that he’s boy-next-door cute.”
-Chicago Sun Times
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Posted on January 30, 2012
“Outstanding performances were the reign of the night, particularly Bill Andrews’ portrayal of former president Richard Nixon and Michael Ingersoll who brought the role of David Frost to life… Mr. Ingersoll portrays Frost with charm and humor, smoothly evoking the blithe superficiality of a kind of lightweight journalist who worked against all odds and setbacks to earn the greatest interview of his career.”
-Arts Memphis
“The excellent cast Playhouse has assembled is up to the task of making those television ghosts flesh and blood again. Michael Ingersoll inhabits David Frost’s charismatic vanity so well, you overlook his lack of resemblance to the television personality. Ingersoll’s control is so great that he can get a laugh by simply slumping in his chair… When the two actors go at it “on camera”, the play practically crackles with electricity.”
-Live from Memphis
Posted on January 29, 2012
“…George Dudley and Michael Ingersoll are picturesque as Steinbeck’s famous drifters. Ingersoll’s young but world-weary George is sarcastic and grouch but never unlikable. Ingersoll plays him as an emotional vortex, a man who knows cruelty – and has even used it – but now dares to share his dream with his friend and albatross.”
-Commercial Appeal
“But the main force throughout Of Mice and Men is the character of George. Despite his gruffness, he convinces you to root for him because Ingersoll gives you the feeling that he is honorable underneath it all.”
-Memphis Mojo
Posted on January 29, 2012
“Company Member Michael A. Ingersoll has dedicated a year to creating his superb characterization of a blood-sucking half-bat, half-human creature… His bald, deathly pale skin combined with ballplayer’s muscular physique belies the genteel, immaculately voiced aesthete the monster becomes.”
-Commercial Appeal
“In the role of the bat boy, Michael A. Ingersoll perfectly inhabits the body of this man creature… Ingersoll is quite funny in this role and sings beautifully (especially in falsetto).”
-Family and Friends Magazine
“Ingersoll is fantastic, going all-out physically while retaining a lot of dignity for his character.”
-Lamplighter Magazine
Posted on January 28, 2012
“Michael Ingersoll may not have been raised in a cave, but his theater experience could make him at home in one. Donning Spock ears and vampire fangs, he was the cave-dwelling outcast in Bat Boy: The Musical in the summer of 2003. And now Playhouse’s welterweight tenor is back underground – this time as the titular spelunker of Floyd Collins, a folksy musical that opened last Friday at Circuit Playhouse… this new role come with a challenge exactly opposite of Ingersoll’s wildly physical monster.
Soon after Floyd makes his optimistic musical entrance, invisible cave walls lock him into an immobile position for most of the play. Ingersoll suffers the grim paralysis with intensity, frustration, and even a bit of gallows humor… His dynamic acting, along with spirited direction by Scott Ferguson (also Bat Boy alum), saves this musical… There aren’t many musicals which features a claustrophobic’s nightmare as an attraction. But Ingersoll certainly creates that sense, even though his struggle is almost completely in the viewer’s head.”
-Commercial Appeal
Posted on January 26, 2012
“Michael Ingersoll, a resident company member at Playhouse on the Square, brought his considerable experience to the role of Student Two, who draws the assignment of Juliet. Ingersoll has been stellar in diverse parts on Memphis stages. Here his nuanced performance was even more a wonder to behold.”
-Commercial Appeal
Posted on January 25, 2012
“Michael A. Ingersoll’s powerful performance as Hal was winning and graceful. The actor, who has shown he’s comfortable in all sorts of roles, easily conveyed Hal’s rugged charm…”
-Commercial Appeal
