Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand

I still hear Michel Legrand’s voice in my head: “Melissa! Hurry! Come!” It was morning at the Music Box Theater, an early rehearsal during the first previews of his 2002 Broadway musical “Amour.” It was 10:01 a.m., and we were all moving slowly, nursing coffee cups in the palms of our hands. We had performed […]

Join Melissa for Valentine’s Day

Melissa will visit the Hawkeye State February 14 as she performs “So In Love: A Valentine of Song & Stories” at Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Iowa. Mixing the music of Broadway, the movies and the pop song, she’ll inhabit love in all its many aspects, from Joni Mitchell’s sadness to Eliza Doolittle’s sauce-with time between […]

Sondheim Sublime: The Liner Notes

The first time I sang for Stephen Sondheim I was in the bath. Raul Esparza and I were doing Sunday in the Park with George at the Kennedy Center, and I played Dot, who is a painter’s model to the greatest of dot-makers, Georges Seurat. I had been an art history major in college and, […]

Sondheim Sublime Now Available!

Melissa’s newest solo album, Sondheim Sublime, is now available in retailers!

The compilation has been touted by The New York Times as “the Sondheim album of the year.”

The Purist: Singing the Sublime

Being an actor is a hard life, and a strange life. But those of us who are musical theater actors cannot imagine our lives, cannot imagine the experience of being an actor at all, without the influence of Stephen Sondheim.

New Album “Sondheim Sublime” Available November 2

Following a series of critically lauded concert performances, Melissa will be releasing a studio album on November 2 featuring her solo renditions of several Stephen Sondheim-penned songs entitled Sondheim Sublime. The album is available for pre-order now at Ghostlight Records. Produced by Rob Mathes (Sting), with Sondheim Sublime Melissa shares a side of Stephen Sondheim’s […]

I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics?

“It’s problematic,” my millennial co-star whispered grimly. “The misogyny in this musical.” “Which moment of misogyny?” I asked cautiously. We were sitting in the corner of the theater, on the first day of rehearsal for the current revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane’s 1965 musical “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” now […]

Melissa to Star in “On a Clear Day…” at Irish Rep!

Irish Repertory Theatre will present a new production of Lerner and Lane’s On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, starring Tony nominees Stephen Bogardus and Melissa Errico. Adapted and directed by Charlotte Moore, the production will run June 15-August 12, with opening night set for June 28. TICKETS ARE ON SALE TO MEMBERS NOW […]

Explore the History of “My Fair Lady”

Through performance and conversation, New Yorker writer and host Adam Gopnik with guests including actors Kevin Kline and Melissa Errico uncover the history of this landmark musical.

Melissa Joins Ravinia Festival’s 2018 Lineup!

Melissa will be making her Ravinia Festival debut as part of the esteemed venue’s 2018 season! She will be performing two shows on September 8 at the venue’s Bennett Gordon Hall. Tickets go on sale May 10 at Ravinia.org.

New Orleans Debut Coming March 1

Melissa will make her New Orleans concert debut on March 1 at Lupin Hall as a benefit for the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts!