For the women in Amy Bouchard’s family, the conflict between music and love spans generations.
In “Amadeus Never Gives Me the Blues,” what Bouchard is billing as a “solo jukebox musical,” the character of Amy has to choose between dashing off on a trip with a dreamy new boyfriend — whose vibes are part soccer star, part Humphrey Bogart — and prepping with her usual thoroughness for an opera audition.
At the same time, the show dovetails her narrative with that of her grandmother, a 1940s jazz chanteuse who once opened for Gypsy Rose Lee before settling into a quiet life bickering with her husband over soda pop.
Amy has much to learn. Her therapist tells her, of her new beau: “Why don’t we see if he can be supportive of the other aspects of being with a singer — not just the glamorous ones.”
But her grandmother drops truth bombs, too.
“Don’t give up on your dreams,” she says. “But don’t build your house on them.”
Along the way, accompanied by Daniel Lockert, Bouchard performs poetically chosen selections from Mozart, Cole Porter and more.
David Ford directs the Marsh production, which runs Saturday, April 11 through May 23.