“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
“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
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