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Article: Show business formed bookends of Bucher's life Daughter of vaudevillian, she later kept her son's theater troupe on its toes
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 5, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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When Anne Bucher played the role of a servant in the Boulevard
Ensemble production of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," she made up
lines and her fellow actors never knew what cue she would feed them
next. How could a woman like that get cast in a play?
It didn't hurt that her son, Mark Bucher, was the founder and
artistic director of the company. Or that the other actors and
actresses loved her. Or that she baked the brownies sold at
intermission to help keep the theater afloat.
Bucher dancer, restaurant worker, clerk, long-distance operator,
mother of six and daughter of a man billed as The Human Fly died
Saturday of emphysema at St. Mary's Hospital. She was 76.
For much of her ...