London Concert Debut Coming February 2018!
Melissa will make her long-awaited London concert debut February 2018!
New Legrand Single!
Ghostlight Records will release Melissa’s new jazz-inflected recording of Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand’s song “Hurry Home,” as a single on December 8.
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Melissa Returns to 54 Below!
Melissa will return to Feinstein’s/54 Below with her resoundingly successful “Melissa Sings Sondheim” show on November 17 and 18 – and again on December 4! Of her previous engagement, DC Arts wrote, “Her song choices were interesting and varied, [from] a fun jazz arrangement of ‘Not While I’m Around’ from Sweeney Todd to slightly lesser-heard Sondheim songs. Her rendition […]
Column: The Purist
It was green with white lines from the very beginning. Just over 20 years ago, I set foot in the world of professional tennis. I was 25 years old and had been set up to meet Patrick McEnroe, a boy I had grown up with and had known since I was 4. From the evening […]
Column: The Purist
All over the world, people take time off. Thousands of people right this minute are either upside down on mats on yoga retreats or upside down under tables in Napa Valley. I have a tendency to spot where pleasure can go, but not make room for it, to say “I love going to hear live […]
The Clyde Fitch Report: Singing Sondheim in the Age of Donald Trump
“I’m going to undertake a Sondheim show.” The first thing you notice when you announce that is how many opinions your friends and colleagues and fans have about his music. “What are you singing that’s rare?” you hear, as well as “Do you know this song that was cut from…?,” and all that sort of […]
Column: The Purist
Spring cleaning makes me think of my messy makeup drawers, or all the size 4 dresses that are sitting there and probably never going to fit again. Time to clean a little, make space for the new. Important no doubt, but an experience with my 9-year old and her teacher rises to the top and […]
Melissa Sings Sondheim
Melissa will return to Broadway’s supper club, Feinstein’s/54 Below, for one night only on June 3 to celebrate the Sondheim songbook. With numbers from Gypsy, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, A Little Night Music, and more, the concert is one no Sondheim fan should miss. Tickets to the concert are available now at […]
One to One with Sheryl McCarthy
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WqEivdIWxo[/youtube] Melissa recently sat down with Sheryl McCarthy of CUNY-TV to discuss her love of musical theatre, being ever the ingenue, and what she sees on the horizon.
Column: The New York Times
Broadway people spend most of their lives as people not on Broadway. A minority of actors make it to New York’s biggest stage, and a further minority of those who do are there now. One need only to have starred in a Broadway musical a year (or 20 years) ago to be billed as a […]
With Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall
Melissa will make her Carnegie Hall debut on March 21, 2017 as a special guest of Michael Feinstein at an evening celebrating songwriter Harry Warren. Harry Warren was a songwriting dynamo in Hollywood throughout the 1930s and ’40s, winning three Academy Awards. Melissa and Jay Armstrong Johnson will join the superb Michael Feinstein for a […]
Column: NYMetro Parents
How I juggled motherhood with a dream role in a special musical. My kids regularly see me get ready for auditions, dressing up like a lawyer or the Queen of England, only to come home later and say I might not have gotten the job. We laugh. It’s Mommy’s life. They have learned that actors […]