He made his first New York City appearance in a stage adaptation of the film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in 1979.
[4][5] His Broadway work includes West Side Story (1980) as understudy Tony, Les Misérables (November 1987 - June 1988) as Grantaire and understudy Javert, in addition to other roles, Safe Sex (1987), The Grapes of Wrath, Falsettos (1992) as Whizzer, King David (Concert, 1997), High Society (1998), James Joyce's The Dead (April 4, 2000 to April 16, 2000, as Gabriel Conroy), Man of La Mancha (2002, Dr. Carrasco), and Old Acquaintance (2007).
[7] In 2008, he starred as Bob Wallace in the Broadway and U.S. touring productions of White Christmas, a role he had performed in 2005 at the Wang Center in Boston and in 2006 in St.
In 2014-2016, Bogardus originated and appeared on Broadway in the role of Daddy Cane in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Bright Star.
In the late 2010s, he performed on various Off-Broadway productions portraying Joe Boyd in Damn Yankees in 2017 and Nick Laine in Girl from the North Country in 2018.
In regional theatre, Bogardus appeared in M. Butterfly at the Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.; William Finn's, Elegies, Canon Theatre, Los Angeles; and James Joyce's The Dead at the Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles and the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.[1] Bogardus' extensive television credits include small roles on the daytime soaps Another World, All My Children and Guiding Light; and numerous guest appearances on prime time series, including Cagney and Lacey, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ed, Monk and Conviction.