In recent years, he has played the role of "Pa" in several regional theatre productions of the musical version of Little House on the Prairie.
He understudied Brent Spiner as Aramis in the 1984 Broadway revival of The Three Musketeers, but the show closed after a week, and Blanchard did not get the opportunity to perform the role.
[3] Blanchard toured in the U.S. National companies of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1987, Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera in 1989 (in which he performed for almost three years), and Camelot in 1992.
In regional theatre, he appeared in the musical Chess as Freddie Trumper at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey in 1992.
[1] In 1995, he played the roles of "Fred Anderson" and the "Headless Ghost" in Alan Menken's version of A Christmas Carol at the Madison Square Garden theatre.