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 […]